Apparati Effimeri’s Tetragram for Enlargement
July 8, 2009 // Architecture + Art + Design

I don’t know all of the details about the video above, but I do know:

A) That it’s frigging amazing.
B) They need to do this on a castle here in L.A.

Apparati Effimeri is a collection of artists from Bologna who’ve created this amazing architectural video installation called Tetragram for Enlargement. Basically they’ve precisely mapped out the surface of a castle and projected a video over the top of it. The video looks just like the surface of the castle, except when they start to tweak and distort the features of it. For example, they appear to change the light source hitting the castle, so the shadows lengthen and grow. It’s an extremely trippy thing to see.

Your best bet is to watch the video and soak it in for yourself. Also, be sure to watch it to the very end, that’s when my favorite effect happens.

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Bobby

  1. wow! i cant even begin to imagine how much time and effort it took to do this. amazing!

    Comment by Gary — July 8, 2009 #

  2. That is just so so very cool.

    Comment by annemjw — July 9, 2009 #

  3. It is a shame that the camera keeps moving. In these kind of projects there is a specific place in which you need to stand to get perfect view, other wise the prespective on the effects is ruined.

    There are already some companies in the world that do projects like these. These companies can be contracted and already have a design team that work the effects to the given monument, we had this happening last year’s christmas in my home city, Lisbon – Portugal.

    Never the less, the specific project feature on this video, is indeed awesome!

    Comment by Astro Boy — July 9, 2009 #

  4. [...] Created by the artist collection Apparati Effimeri. One of the most amazing videos I have ever seen. The collection of artists put together a video and projected it on a castle. But it’s not as simple as it seems. Rather than just using the castle as a plane to project the video on, they also made the video interact with the castle. The precision that they have achieved is mind blowing. It can’t even begin to imagine how much time and effort it took to do this. Just watch it and see for yourself, trust me you will be glad you did. *from Kitsune Noir [...]

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  5. Absolutely amazing. The fact it’s projected on a castle makes me imagine how wonderfully freaked out and scared people in the middle ages would have been if they’d have seen this happen.

    Comment by Simon — July 9, 2009 #

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