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Augmented Reality · ART & CULTURE

Fall of the Titans

Augmented Reality Experience

For SMK, Khora transformed the 400-year-old painting The Fall of the Titans into an AR experience, bringing its characters and movement to life through visitors’ smartphones.

Client
smk – national gallery of denmark

Format
Augmented reality

Industry
art & culture

CONTEXT

Over the last years, Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) has been focusing on digitalization of the museum. With Instagram opening up their platform to let anyone publish Augmented Reality experiences, SMK saw an opportunity to explore this new feature and create a digital AR experience of one of the museum’s highlights, ‘The Fall of the Titans’ painting.

SOLUTION

Together, we digitally recreated the depth of the original painting and gave life to the movement that the painting portrays. Falling titans, butterflies flying around the painting and a devilish dog are all elements that were brought to life and that this AR experience lets you discover.

IMPACT

With an ever growing digitally native audience, SMK invites its visitors to explore this 400 year old piece of art in a whole new way. Everything can be experienced from the Instagram app that most people already use in their daily life. When next to the 3 meter tall painting, or at home – by using a high resolution image of the painting which is available in the museum’s digital collection at the SMK’s website – visitors can use their smartphones and go into SMK’s Instagram profile to try out the AR filter. It’s as simple as it sounds.