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In this segment for Spanish National Television, Adam Lowe explains the main steps in the process of recreating the Colossus of Constantine. Following its display in the exhibition ‘Recycling Beauty’ at the Fondazione Prada, Factum Foundation’s reconstruction of the Colossus was installed in the heart of Rome, near the Capitoline Museum.
The Gough Map, thought to be Britain’s oldest, has been revealed in unprecedented detail thanks to cutting-edge 3D technology more commonly used in computer games and CGI. The ARCHiOx project in partnership with the Factum Foundation uses a prototype photographic system to examine some of Britain’s oldest artefacts held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK. The new scanning techniques not only give researchers new ways to study rare objects like the Gough Map, but new preservation tools for archivists to keep priceless artefacts safe for future generations.
This interview with Adam Lowe aired on December 16th 2022 on the Swiss channel RTS, for the programme 19:30, and features Adam Lowe talking about Factum Arte and Factum Foundation’s work.
This short news feature by Telediario on the work of Factum Foundation went live in April 2022, featuring interviews with Nicolas Béliard, Head of Communications, and Carlos Bayod Lucini, Director of Projects at Factum Foundation.
[Spanish] In this video by El PaÃs Babelia, Adam Lowe, director of Factum Arte and founder of Factum Foundation, explains the ways in which non-contact methodologies are having a growing impact on the world of conservation and are defining the role facsimiles play in the protection of our cultural heritage.
Paul Rhys and the team at Business Insider visit the Factum Arte workshops in Madrid, watching how they use “the latest 3D scanning and printing technology to create copies of some of the world’s most famous masterpieces — saving them from the ravages of time and even helping to bring back missing works from the dead.”
Rosie-Lyse Thompson from Euronews talks about the recovery and protection of Iraq’s lost artifacts, interviewing Elizabeth Mitchell from Factum Foundation about the two lamassu facsimiles donated to the University of Mosul in November 2019.
The reconstruction of the Colossus of Constantine was featured as Work of the Week on the Art Newspaper’s This Week in Art. Adam Lowe, founder of Factum Foundation, was interviewed by Ben Luke about the project and its challenges.
Hannah Fisher from BBC Digital Planet interviews the ARCHiOx team on the technologies, achievements and future plans of the project partnership funded by The Helen Hamlyn Trust at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. (11:20-19:55)
Presented by Masterpiece London in partnership with Apollo, this three-part series of podcasts provides an insight into the works on show at this year’s Masterpiece fair. In the third and final episode, Adam Lowe talks about the display he has curated with architect Charlotte Skene Catling for the fair’s new Masterpiece [Re]Discovery section, ‘Avoiding Oblivion: The Preservation of Pharaonic Knowledge’, which builds on the work of Lowe’s workshop Factum Arte in the Valley of the Kings over the last two decades.
On December 14, 2021, Factum Foundation’s founder Adam Lowe participated in an interview with archaeologist Gillian Hovell following Stephen Fry’s statement on the repatriation of the Elgin Marbles to Greece. In an era of digital materiality, where cultural artefacts can be made accessible online and offline, Lowe stressed the need to properly digitise objects at the highest resolution possible, to inform and shape decisions about where and how to display those objects. Lowe also mentioned the importance of launching an in-depth debate about ownership, access and repatriation, and in this case about reunification.
