The Return
The Return was a collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to bring Tullio Lombardo’s Adam — a Renaissance masterpiece shattered in a 2002 accident and painstakingly restored — back to life through motion capture and real-time animation. A performer’s movements were captured and mapped onto a digital reconstruction of the sculpture, creating a living avatar that breathed and moved in the gallery.
I led the motion capture production and real-time technical systems, working within the museum’s conservation and curatorial framework to ensure the technology served the art rather than competing with it.
Covered by The New York Times. The project demonstrated how emerging media technology could extend the narrative life of historical artworks within major institutions.
