Video Interviews



New Scientist - Gough Map: How new technology uncovered secrets of rare Bodleian artefact - February 2023

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.

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RTS - Cent ans après la découverte du tombeau de Toutankhamon, une copie quasi parfaite a été réalisée à Madrid - December 2022

Interview aired on December 16th 2022 about Factum Arte and Factum Foundation's work on the Swiss channel RTS, for the programme 19:30.

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Telediario - Los guardianos del arte - April 2022

Short news feature (2/4/2022) on the work of Factum Foundation to preserve cultural heritage in the face of war and destruction, featuring interviews with Nicolas Béliard, Head of Communications, and Carlos Bayod Lucini, Director of Projects at Factum Foundation.

'In the 21st century, we have the technological means to do so much: we urgently need to act now to record and preserve our cultural heritage for future generations.' - Adam Lowe, Founder of Factum Foundation

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Colnaghi Foundation live interview with Adam Lowe - January 2021

On 28th January 2021, Izzy Kent from Colnaghi Foundation interviewed Adam Lowe, director of Factum Arte and founder of Factum Foundation, on the role of new technologies and facsimiles for the conservation and dissemination of cultural heritage.

Ongoing projects for 2021, such as the Raphael Cartoons with the V&A, the exhibition display for the Spanish Gallery at Bishop Auckland and the Casa Natal de Velázquez in Seville, were featured during the conversation, which was livestreamed on Instagram.

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Business Insider - Inside the Workshop Making World Class 'Fakes' - December 2020

'Factum Arte in Madrid uses 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.'

Many thanks to Paul Rhys and the team at Business Insider.

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El País Babelia - Factum: así es el taller en que se fabrican las piezas de las obras de arte contemporáneo - December 2020

Based in Madrid, Factum Arte consists of a team of artists, technicians and conservators dedicated to digital mediation - both in the production of works for contemporary artists and in the production of facsimiles as part of a coherent approach to preservation and dissemination.
In this video by El País 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. The piece went online on 4/12/2020.

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Santander Bank and Factum

Banco Santander, through their “Fondo Smart”, have been working with Factum since 2018.

In this video, Ana Botín, Executive Chairman of Santander Group, talks to Factum Arte’s director and Factum Foundation’s founder Adam Lowe about vision, giving form to ideas, sharing and inventing a new kind of sustainable business model.

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‘Euronews - Artefact detectives’ in Iraq aim to end the theft of their history - January 2020

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 piece was broadcast online on 10/01/2020.

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RAI Storia - Italia: viaggio nella bellezza. L'originale e il suo doppio (Italiano) - September 2019

Adam Lowe's interview during "L'originale e il suo doppio", broadcasted on Rai Storia on 25/09/2019 and part of the series about the art of copying and reproducing artworks, produced by Rai Cultura in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Arts and Culture (Mibac). During the episode (starting at 19:15), Factum's works on Canova, Veronese and Caravaggio are analysed and discussed by various italian experts in the art history field.

Please note that you have to register (free) to RAI Play to watch the episode.

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BBC News report on the campaign to save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry

The 'Save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry' protest as lead story on BBC News on November 9th, 2019.

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ITV News at 10 - Opening of 'Madame de Pompadour in the Frame' at Waddesdon Manor, May 2019

A piece by ITV News at Ten, broadcasted on 22 May 2019.

The exhibition 'Madame de Pompadour in the Frame', open to public from 23 May to 27 October 2019 at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, UK, features the facsimiles of two portraits of Madame de Pompadour by François Boucher. The exhibition allows visitors to examine the facsimiles alongside artefacts of the production process and to watch a video showing the various stages of making. Find out more.

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TV News - France 24 Latina (Spanish)

This piece was broadcast on the international news and current affairs television network France 24 Latina in February 2019. The video, narrated in Spanish, presents Factum Foundation's role in the preservation of cultural heritage through the application of high resolution recording systems, such as the Lucida 3D scanner, and the creation of exact facsimiles. It also displays a demonstration of Factum's Veronica scanner in action; creating a 3D recording of a human bust.

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Where modern technology meets ancient art, CBS News

This video profile, broadcasted in February 2019 on CBS News, explores the workshop and technical processes behind Factum Arte by featuring the rematerialisation of the tomb of Seti I alongside an interview with director Adam Lowe.

Story produced by Reid Orvedahl.

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Factum Arte's profile, by Patek Philippe

"The idea really is something like the old renaissance workshops where people with many different skills, work to pursue a common goal." This is how Adam Lowe, founder and director of Factum Arte and Factum Foundation, presents his vision in an interview for Patek Philippe.

To know more about the articulation of this unique place where artists, technicians and artisans join their passions and experiment with cutting-edge technologies, like art students in a playground, you can watch this video and read the corresponding article published by Patek Philippe Magazine.

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The Regeneration of Seti I

Inside the Middle East, a programme broadcasted by CNN, interviewed Adam Lowe and Aliaa Ismail about the importance of using non-contact technologies to record in the Valley of the Kings and the significance of the facsimiles of the tomb of Seti I presented as part of the exhibition Scanning Seti: The Regeneration of a Pharaonic Tomb at the Antikenmuseum in Basel.

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Recreating ancient Egyptian tombs

CNN International reviews the exhibition ¨Scanning Seti: The Regeneration of a Pharaonic Tomb.¨ See the video interview in Arabic.

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Scanning Seti I: The regeneration of a Pharaonic Tomb

Spanish newspaper El País visited the exhibition ´Scanning Seti: the Regeneration of a Pharaonic Tomb´ at the Antikenmuseum Basel. In this interview, curators Adam Lowe and André Wiese explain how facsimiles and technology can both increase the access to and protect the original tomb.

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Technology to re-create lost art

Video published by the Gazzetta di Modena in Italian focusing on the research, production and recreation of a burnt Monet.

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