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[Spanish] ABC Cultural visited Factum Arte and Factum Foundation’s headquarters in Madrid to observe the process to create facsimiles of a selection of Michelangelo’s sculptures for ‘Michelangelo Imperfect’ at SMK (March 28th – August 31st 2025).
[Spanish] Agencia EFE visits Factum’s headquarters in Madrid to share the new projects in the workshop, among which is the second edition of the Colossus of Constantine to be installed in the UK as part of the Auckland Project.
The project to recreate the Colossus of Constantine was featured on the Italian TV show Stanotte a Roma, hosted by Alberto Angela on Rai 1 on December 24th 2024.
The show highlighted the innovative techniques used to digitally reconstruct the statue from its surviving fragments, offering viewers a fascinating look into the world of historical preservation and digital technology (starting at 1:16:22). Please note that you have to register (free) to RaiPlay to watch the episode.
Celebrated with two days of traditional rituals on October 2nd and 3rd, the Wauja people and leaders from across the Xingu Indigenous Territory welcomed the full-size replica of the Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká. A local Brazilian television visits the replica installed in the new Cultural and Territorial Monitoring Center in Ulupuwene village, Upper Xingu.
Piratá Waurá, teacher and filmmaker: “For us in Xingu, Kamukuwaká is the origin of all cultural knowledge. It taught us how to relate to the world, respect each other, and care for the environment.”
This segment on national Brazilian television talks about the six-year-long project to record and recreate the Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká, following the vandalisation of the original site in 2018. The replica not only restores Indigenous Brazilian culture but also preserves the ancestral knowledge of 16 Xingu peoples. In collaboration with People’s Palace Projects, the initiative involved recording the original cave, reconstructing its petroglyphs with the Wauja people, and transporting the replica from Madrid to Xingu, thanks to Iron Mountain’s Living Legacy program and Crozier Fine Arts.
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.
[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.
In this episode, Nick Millea mentions Factum Foundation and the role of high-resolution recording in cartographic studies.
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.
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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