[x3d-public] A Shattered Adam Statue Comes to Life at the Met - The New York Times

[Don Brutzman]

July 11, 2015 - By FRANK ROSE - Arts: "Adam, From Shards to Pixels "

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/arts/design/a-shattered-adam-statue-comes-to-life-at-the-met.html

Excerpt:
"What if Adam could talk? Not just any Adam, but the 15th-century marble statue that crashed to the floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art — all 6 feet 3 inches of him — one dismal October evening in 2002. The Adam that was recently, after a 12-year restoration project, installed in a special gallery for Venetian sculpture of the Renaissance. What might he say?

For three weeks starting Saturday, visitors can find out. Reid Farrington, a multimedia director, has brought the statue to life, on a six-foot-high video screen at the center of the Venetian Sculpture Gallery. As presented in “The Return,” the interactive installation Mr. Farrington has created for the Met, this newly imagined Adam is liable to offer up a learned disquisition on the use of fig leaves in Renaissance art or an irreverent “What’s up, dudes?”

Mr. Farrington’s creation appears to suffer from multiple-personality disorder, because he does in fact have three personalities: There’s Digital Adam, an avatar based on the 3-D rendering that the museum’s conservators ordered up in their effort to figure out how to put the fallen statue back together. There’s Tullio’s Adam, named after Tullio Lombardo, the Renaissance sculptor who completed the original work around 1495. And there’s biblical Adam, a rendering of the scriptural figure the statue depicts."