MSc Heritage Visualisation School of Innovation & Technology
Antony Lucchesi
Antony Lucchesi is an Artist and Researcher based in Glasgow.
Stemming from an intrinsic belief that digital media is best presented in open source formats, Antony interrogates how digital materials are accessed, shared and reused, working across a variety of mediums informed by a cyclical process of experimentation and reprocessing of digital and lens based media.
He has recently completed an MSc in Heritage Visualisation where these themes were key to the development of a body of research aiming at encouraging increased access to digital materials from GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Institutions.
Antony has presented his first solo show ‘Obscured Landscapes’ at Cairn Gallery (2023), and has exhibited work in group shows including The Royal Scottish Academy’s Open Exhibition (2021/22) and New Contemporaries (2023), along with various group shows around Glasgow over the past 7 years. He was also selected as part of Cove Park’s Youth Arts Bursary (2022/23), Tinderbox’s Room to Play Programme (2023) and was commissioned as a contributing artist for the Edinburgh Book Festival’s Citizen’s Project (2024).
Digital Heritage Material as Creative Resource – Strategies For Sharing and Reuse
With recent large-scale digitisation efforts such as Towards A National Collection it is important that we look at how digital heritage materials are provided to the public and what permissions are granted when doing so. It is also important to interrogate how GLAM institutions conduct outreach with their digital materials and encourage critical and creative engagement, allowing for the freedom to analyse and reinterpret the objects and their stories.
To address these two key points, I worked with The Glasgow School of Art’s Archives and Collections to produce a series of 3D scans from out-of-copyright material, leading to a workshop encouraging creative reuse of the archive content. The digital materials were published to my website, ectype, under an unrestrictive Creative Commons license, allowing anyone to use them freely. My hope is that this research encourages institutions with existing or developing online collections to look at ways they can improve access to their online material and continue to develop their outreach in ways that foster creative thinking.
