Podcasts & Radio
RNE Audio: Nuria Medina. Bienal de Arte Islámico de Yeda
[Spanish] Ana Morente interviews Nuria Medina, Project Director at Factum Arte and Factum Foundation, about the 2025 edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale (January 25 – May 25, 2025), where Factum’s recreation of the lost silver world map of al-Idrisi was presented as part of the Al Madar display.
Science on the Radio – Episode 85: Fascinating Maps
In this episode, Nick Millea mentions Factum Foundation and the role of high-resolution recording in cartographic studies.
What’s Your Map? Lost Treasures: Reconstructing Al-Idrisi with Adam Lowe
In this episode of What’s Your Map? host and map historian Jerry Brotton is joined by Adame Lowe, the director of Factum Arte and the Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation. For What’s Your Map? Adam brought a re-creation of The Lost Map of al-Idrisi, which Factum made with pure silver.
As It Happens: Kurt Schwitters Barn
Nil Köksal and Chris Howden from CBC Listen interview Adam Lowe, founder of Factum Foundation, over the acquisition of Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn in Elterwater and Factum’s plans for Cylinders Estate (17:47).
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This Week in Art: Yoko Ono at Tate Modern, Elton John’s collection, a Roman colossus remade
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.
BBC Digital Planet: Photometric-stereo 3D imaging reveals secrets of the past
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)
The Apollo Podcast: The Masterpiece podcast (Ep. 3)
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.
BBC Radio 4: On the Elgin Marbles
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.
The Fifth Siren: Memory (Ep. 4)
‘The Fifth Siren’ is the first podcast series organised by FILL Productions, from the curators of FILL, the Festival of Italian Literature in London. It focusses on Venice, inviting multiple authors, writers and filmmmakers to talk about “the nexus where many global crises come together – environmental, cultural, social, technological.”
Adam Lowe, founder of Factum Foundation, was invited to talk about the recording of San Giorgio Maggiore in 2020 in the fourth episode of the podcast, dedicated to Memory.
Questo non è un podcast sull’arte: È un falso? No, è una copia (Ep. 9)
Giulia Graffi and Eleonora Del Riccio from ‘Questo non è un podcast sull’arte’ have dedicated an episode to the work of Factum Arte and Factum Foundation. A thoroughly enjoyable 12 minutes highlighting the changing role of facsimiles in the field of cultural heritage and exhibition design, but also detailing Factum’s work in the transfer of skills and digital restoration.
BBC’s Channel 3: Blood and Bronze
In his podcast ‘Blood and Bronze’ on BBC Radio, Jerry Brotton reveals how the Renaissance was a time of conflict as well as beauty, creativity and tyranny, by retracing the life of Benvenuto Cellini through his autobiography. In episode 9, Adam Lowe, founder of Factum Foundation, visits the the Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial to talk about Cellini’s Crucifixion, thanks to the collaboration of Patrimonio Nacional.
Colnaghi Foundation: Interview with Adam Lowe
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.
The World: Preserving the floating city of Venice digitally
This Week in Art: Can tech recreate the hand of an Old Master?
Marca España: Se reabre la Casa Natal de Diego Velázquez, en Sevilla
BBC’s Channel 4: Curating the Future
BBC’s Front Row: Whitechapel Bell Foundry
In 2017, Britain’s oldest continuously working factory in the country, the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, was sold to American developers who wanted to turn it into a boutique hotel. Just last week the government intervened to prevent Tower Hamlets from granting permission to the proposed development. Gillian Darley, who writes about architecture and landscape, and Stephen Clarke, a trustee of the UK Heritage Building Preservation Trust, consider the importance of commercial viability rather than sentiment when it comes to protecting old buildings and industries.
(10:37 – 20:50)
The Globalist: Adam Lowe about Venice
In the aftermath of one of Venice’s worst flood in years, resulting in damages for millions of euros and the loss of priceless works of art, Adam Lowe talks about Factum Foundation’s project in the city, ARCHiVe, and how the technologies employed by Factum Arte can contribute to protect Venetian cultural heritage.
(52:46 – 58:48)
History Hit: Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Whitechapel Bell Foundry was formally founded in 1570 and continued casting bells until 2017. It cast the Liberty Bell and Big Ben. In this episode, Dan talks to Adam Lowe who is part of a campaign to get the Foundry back into action.
The Art Newspaper Podcast: Marina Abramović & Adam Lowe’s interview at Masterpiece Presents 2018
Marina Abramović and Adam Lowe were interviewed at Masterpiece London Art Fair 2018 by Gareth Harris for The Art Newspaper. The artist expresses her views on Five Stages of Maya Dance, the series of five alabaster portraits produced at Factum Arte and talks about immateriality, mortality and the “process of disappearance” that embraces the sculptural artworks, presented in collaboration with Lisson Gallery.
GSAPP Conversations: Carlos Bayod Lucini and Adam Lowe in Conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos
Jorge Otero-Pailos, Director of Columbia GSAPP’s Historic Preservation Program, speaks with Carlos Bayod Lucini and Adam Lowe of Factum Arte about the need for teaching students not only practical skills, but also a conceptual understanding of how new technologies can be applied, and the importance of recording of artefacts during times of peace
La Série Documentaire: ‘Entre spoliation et restitution, cet étrange désir de posséder les œuvres d’art’
[French] La Série Documentaire, a radio broadcast produced by France Culture, dedicated four podcasts to the issue of discovery, protection and recovery of works of art, led by journalist Perrine Kervran. Entre spoliation et restitution, cet étrange désir de posséder les œuvres d’art, the third episods, recounts the arrival of Verenose’s Wedding at Cana to the Louvre and its return as a facsimile to San Giorgio Maggiore.
The Art Newspaper Podcast: The enduring appeal of enigmatic Beuys. Plus, lost masterpieces reborn
Adam Lowe talked to The Art Newspaper about a new TV series in which seven lost paintings are recreated. Mystery of the Lost Paintings is a seven-part television series produced by Sky Arts and developed as a collaboration between Peter Glidewell, Ballandi Arts and Factum Arte. The series focuses on seven great paintings by Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh, Franz Marc, Klimt, Lempicka, and Sutherland that were destroyed, stolen or lost during the 20th Century.
Adam Lowe and James Macmillan-Scott at Project Space Art Jameel
Adam Lowe and James Macmillan-Scott presented Factum Arte’s work at Project Space in Art Jameel (Dubai) in 2017. This podcast, titled Traditional and Digital Artisans Meet, explores the ways in which new technologies are being used in both architectural conservation and contemporary art.
BBC Radio 4: Interview with Adam at the Royal Academy of Arts
BBC Radio 4´s John Wilson discusses the function of Factum Arte´s Veronica Scanner and its relevance to the Art World in an interview with Factum´s director, Adam Lowe at the Royal Academy of Arts.
The Monocle Arts Review: The Veronica 3D Scanner
Nancy Durrant, commissioning arts editor for ‘The Times’ explains what it is like to have your portrait taken and bust 3D printed from data recorded in the Veronica Scanner with high resolution photogrammetry at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
BBC Radio 4: The Museum of Curiosity (Ep. 6)
The Museum of Curiosity, is a comedy panel game on BBC Radio 4 hosted by John Lloyd. He acts as the head of the (fictional) titular museum, while a panel of three guests – typically a comedian, an author and an academic – each donate to the museum an ‘object’ that fascinates them. The radio medium ensures that the suggested exhibits can be absolutely anything, limited only by the guests’ imaginations.
BBC Radio 4: Roger Law interviews Adam Lowe on ‘Wow How Did They Do That?’ (Ep. 4)
Roger Law meets Adam Lowe – the man who can recreate any object in perfect detail. His company Factum Arte has reproduced great works of art, such as Veronese’sThe Marriage at Cana which was taken by Napoleon’s troops from Venice and now hangs in the Louvre. Adam created an exact replica which is now displayed in the original setting in the Palladian refectory in Venice. The next challenge was even more ambitious – a life size reproduction of Tutankamun’ tomb. Roger Law travels to Madrid to discover the secrets behind these extraordinary creations.
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