Our Team
Following the creation of the multidisciplinary workshop Factum Arte in 2001, Adam Lowe founded the Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation in 2009. Factum Foundation was established with the aim of using Factum Arte's innovative processes and technologies for preservation, education, and the dissemination of cultural heritage.
Adam Lowe
Adam Lowe, OBE (Oxford, 1959) was trained in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford and the RCA London. He worked as an artist throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, co-founded Pomeroy Purdy Gallery (1987) and curated several exhibitions of contemporary art, before dedicating his life to merging new technologies and craft skills for both the creation of contemporary art (through Factum Arte’s workshops) and the preservation of culture (through Factum Foundation). He has written extensively on the subject of originality, authenticity and preservation.
Lowe is a former Adjunct Professor at the MS Historic Preservation at Columbia University, New York since 2016. He has written extensively on the subject of originality, authenticity and conservation. In 2014, he received an Apollo Award for Digital Innovation of the Year, an honour that was repeated in 2016 for the digitisation work carried out by the Factum Foundation in Dagestan. In 2019, he was made Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) by the British Royal Society of Arts.
Since 2017, Lowe represents Factum Foundation as a member of the core research group of the Reproduction of Art and Cultural Heritage initiative (ReACH), whose undertaking resulted in the signing of a declaration at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The new Declaration has been signed by 20 major museums and foundations invested in the use of digital technology to preserve, protect and distribute our shared cultural heritage.
Over the years, Lowe has structured a team of preservation specialists who operate worldwide.
Iván Allende
Carlos Alonso
Silvia Álvarez
Celestia Anstruther
Juan Carlos Arias
Blanca Balbuena
Carlos Bayod
Nicolas Béliard
Costanza Blaskovic
Amanda Blázquez
Beatrice Bosco
Santiago del Bosque
Cristian Cabrera
Raul Candil
Jorge Cano
Teresa Casado
Almudena Casado
Francesco Cigognetti
Gabriel Coleman
Marta Collado
Macarena Crespo
Sol Costales
Daniel Fabris
Isabel Fernández
Eduardo García
Alberto García-Donas
Giulia Fornaciari
Montserrat Fornes
Manuel Franquelo
Carmen G. Figueras
Jordi García
Irene Gaumé
Esperanza González
Nuria Goytre
Carolina Gris
Miguel Hernando
Francisco Herrero
Angel Jorquera
Alfonso Jurado
Eduardo López
Imran Khan
Giulia Lo Basso
Adam Lowe
Otto Lowe
James Macmillan-Scott
Nathaniel Mann
Jacinto de Manuel
Aniuska Martín
Maria Martinez
Nuria Medina
Pedro Miró
Larissa van Moorsel
Alexis Niarchos
Blanca Nieto
Oscar Parasiego
Voula Paraskevi Natsi
Raquel Rapado
Damián Rojo
Pedro Salafranca
Carlos San Juan
Carlos Sanz Sayalero
Ferdinand Saumarez Smith
Gabriel Scarpa
Oak Taylor-Smith
Valentino Tignanelli
Sergio Vázquez
Eloy Villafruela
Michael Ward
Charlie Westgarth
Casilda Ybarra
Factum Foundation
Founder
Adam Lowe
President
James Macmillan-Scott
Factum Foundation London
Director
Ferdinand Saumarez Smith
Board of Trustees
Candace Allen
Josué Tanaka
Jerry Brotton
American Friends of Factum Foundation
Board of Directors
James Macmillan-Scott, Chairman
Paula Crown
Matthew Zucker
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With your help, Factum can continue to document and disseminate the world's cultural heritage through newly developed technologies.