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Capturing Footprints
As part of our first practical collaboration with Iconem in Pakistan, Factum Foundation´s Ross Davison and Luke Tchalenko carried out the high-resolution recording of a fossilized footprint in motion. The...
Recording in Jeddah
Factum Foundation’s Pedro Miró and Otto Lowe traveled to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), as part of a pilot project with Art Jameel documenting vernacular architecture and training Saudi students in photogrammetry...
Recording Qut paintings in Asir, Saudi Arabia
The Foundation, working with Art Jameel, has been on a fact finding mission that has involved the recording of some of the remaining examples of the delicate and discrete qut...
3D model of the statue of Idrimi
The statue of Idrimi, a refugee from Aleppo who rose to become the king of Alalakh in southern Turkey 3,500 years ago, was recorded and scanned last February at the...
Podcast “Traditional and Digital Artisans Meet”
Adam Lowe presented a talk at Project Space Art Jameel in Dubai entitled Traditional and Digital Artisans Meet, exploring the ways in which new technologies are being used in both...
View and Protect Assyrian Winged Lions
The exhibition Nineveh: Heart of an Ancient Empire at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden has on view two Lamassu re-materialized by the Foundation. The originals were recorded at the British Museum...
True Copies
Jeffrey Brown from PBS NewsHour visited Factum last March to learn more about our work both at Factum Arte and the Foundation. His piece focuses on our approach to understanding...
Recording at Ferapontov Monastery
Following a long journey to a landscape of pristine lakes and forests in northern Russia, the 11th of May marked the beginning of a three-month recording session at the Ferapontov...
Xingu Heritage
A team from Factum Foundation has just returned from the upper Xingu region of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, where they participated in People’s Palace Projects collaboration with the...
Soane’s Ark: Building with Symbols
Factum Foundation’s Ferdinand Saumarez Smith has written a new article exploring the conceptual background to the exhibition ‘Soane’s Ark: Building with Symbols’ as a ‘Think Piece’ for the Architectural Review....
The Griffoni Altarpiece Returns to San Petronio
On October 1st, 2017, the facsimiles of all known panels of the Griffoni Polyptych were installed in the St. Vincent Ferrer Chapel in the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna,...
Data ownership & access
Factum Foundation will participate this September in the “Reproduction of Works of Art and Cultural Heritage” (ReACH) roundtable at the Hermitage Museum with the V&A and Peri Foundation. ReACH celebrates...
Visit “Scanning Seti” in Basel
Scanning Seti: The Regeneration of a Pharaonic Tomb is exhibited at the Antikenmuseum Basel and will remain on view until May 6th, 2017. Scanning Seti is a presents the evolution...
The Facsimile of Idrimi
On September 27th, at Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Making Light launched an initiative to present new voices of Syrian refugees. Factum Foundation supported their efforts by recording...
Factum Foundation has now produced facsimiles for the exhibition IDENTIFICATION at the State Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is hosting the exhibition ‘IDENTIFICATION’ to coincide with the third event of ReACH, a series of international symposia led by the V&A and...
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