PRESS VIDEOS

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.

The exhibition ‘Madame de Pompadour in the Frame’, open to public from 23 May to 27 October 2019 at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, UK, featured the facsimiles of two portraits of Madame de Pompadour by François Boucher. The exhibition allowed visitors to examine the facsimiles alongside artefacts of the production process and to watch a video showing the various stages of making. ITV News interviews curator Adam Lowe and exhibition designer Charlotte Skene Catling.

This video profile by CBS News, produced by Reid Orvedahl, 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.

“The idea really is something like the old renaissance workshops where people with many different skills, work to pursue a common goal” (Adam Lowe). Patek Philippe Magazine explored Factum Arte, a unique place where artists, technicians and artisans join their passions and experiment with cutting-edge technologies, like art students in a playground. You can also read Matthew Sturgis’ interview with Adam Lowe at the link below.

Inside the Middle East, a programme broadcast 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.

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 access to the original tomb and at the same time protect it from further danger.

[Arabic] CNN International reviews the exhibition ‘Scanning Seti: The Regeneration of a Pharaonic Tomb’ and interviews Factum Foundation’s director Adam Lowe and Aliaa Ismail from the Theban Necropolis Preservation Initiative.

The Great Big Story team visited our studio in Madrid in 2017 to learn more about the work of the Factum Arte and the Factum Foundation in creating facsimiles for the preservation of cultural heritage.

PBS Newshour’s Jeffrey Brown interviewed Adam Lowe about the work of Factum Foundation to preserve cultural heritage.

In October 2016, Waddesdon Manor presented an exhibition and live experiment in 3D portraiture showcasing Factum Arte's technologies: the Veronica Chorographic Scanner, photogrammetry techniques, digital 3D modelling, robot carving and 3D printing.

A continuous thread in the story of visual art, from ancient Greek mythology to the rise of photography in the 19th century, is the desire to represent a subject’s true form. As part of this story, Factum Arte’s own Veronica Scanner, which uses photogrammetry to record highly objective portraits, was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London as part of ‘The Veronica Scanner. Live 3D portraiture’ (2 September – 11 September 2016).

The BBC reports the unearthing of the Cochno Stone in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, a remarkable project to dig up, 3D scan and rebury an ancient stone known for its cup-and-ring markings and is thought to date back to 3000-2000 BC. Interviews with Dr Kenny Brophy and archaeology students from the University of Glasgow and Ferdinand Saumarez Smith from Factum Foundation.

Agencia EFE’s report on the high-resolution digitisation of the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, with an interview with Gabriel Scarpa from Factum Foundation.

CNN’s report by Nick Glass on the possibility of the presence of two chambers beyond the North and West walls in King Tutankhamun’s tomb, featuring Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves.

[Spanish] Miguel Angel Oliver from Noticias 4 interviews Pedro Miró from Factum Arte about the possibility of the presence of two empty spaces, or cavities, beyond the decorated North and West walls of the Burial Chamber in King Tutankhamun’s tomb, following a theory by British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves.