QR Codes for Augmented Reality Animations

• Scan with your iPhone camera to watch and interact with these AR animations, Part 1 and Part 2

• Click “open” in the top right of the landing page

• Aim phone at a horizontal surface

• Tap to create a surface anchor

• Tap figures to start animation

Augmented Reality Animations

Created for Supernatural at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Emilie Stark-Menneg reimagines Ovid’s myth of Daphne and Apollo. In the original story, Apollo, struck by Cupid’s arrow falls madly in love with Daphne, a river nymph. He chases after her. Terrified, she prays to her father the river god, Peneus for help. Suddenly, as Apollo is about to catch her, she transforms into a laurel tree.

“I was never satisfied by the way this myth ends. The rootedness of becoming a tree, feels like a trap. So, I create an alternative ending where Daphne has greater agency and freedom. In this new version, as Daphne begins to transform into a tree, she turns towards Apollo and impales him with her branch. He falls into her outstretched limbs and dies an ecstatic death. He too starts sprouting twigs. Then they spin upward and explode in a cosmic bang. Stars fall to the ground like seeds. And out of the earth a new Daphne blossoms.”

—Emilie Stark-Menneg

Video recording of AR animation, Daphne and Apollo: the Chase, after Pontormo

Video recording of AR animation, Daphne and Apollo: the Trees, for Pontormo