Debates about ownership and repatriation of cultural property are often presented as a zero-sum-game. But with the advent of digital technologies for recording and replicating surfaces – 3D scanning and printing, CNC-milling – this state of affairs is changing. In this lecture, Ferdinand Saumarez Smith of the Factum Foundation will explore these issues through the Bakor monoliths, a unique sculptural heritage in southeast Nigeria that Factum Foundation has worked to preserve since 2016, and the Bura heads from Niger in the collection of the Lam Museum of Anthropology. 

A reception will follow the lecture.

This event will held in person, but will also be available virtually.  Please register in advance to attend via Zoom: https://forms.gle/mERAWfj4kxUUKZrKA

This event is sponsored by the Wake Forest University Interdisciplinary Arts Center, Wake the Arts, the Art and Antiquities Blockchain Consortium.