Adam Lowe
Project Partner
Adam Lowe is the founding director of the Madrid-based Factum Arte and Factum Foundation. He was trained in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford and the RCA London. He co-founded Pomeroy Purdy Gallery in 1987 and curated exhibitions of contemporary art, before dedicating his life to merging new technologies and craft skills, both the creation of contemporary art (Factum Arte) and the preservation of culture (Factum Foundation). He has written extensively on originality, authenticity, and preservation. Since 2016, Lowe is an Adjunct Professor at the MS Historic Preservation at Columbia University, New York. In 2014, he received an Apollo Award for Digital Innovation of the Year, an again 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 has represented 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 by 20 major museums and foundations invested in the use of digital technology to preserve, protect, and distribute our shared cultural heritage.
