Monday, March 16, 2015

The BK Digital Art Company managed to breathe life into a sculpture of Apollo using Omote-like facial projection mapping. The "Golem X Apollo" project used projection mapping technology to revive the disembodied head of the ancient Greek god of light, music and healing. Golem explores the thin line between virtual reality and real virtuality”, artistic director Arnaud Pottier says.

The project hints that new technologies could make art museums come to life. "Imagine GOLEM X APOLLO brought to scale, in the sculpture wings at the Louvre, or the Met: entire corridors of classical marble statues flickering in motion all at once, like a Greek chorus brought to life."