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LOOTY Updates

Field notes from the front line of digital repatriation — events, releases, and press, straight from the studio.

Ogene MIDI takes an Honorary Mention at the London Design Biennale 2025
Events

Ogene MIDI takes an Honorary Mention at the London Design Biennale 2025

Ritual as Algorithm. Our playable reimagining of the Igbo Ogene was recognised among the Biennale's standout commissions — here's what happened in the room.

LOOTY Studio · 12 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Events

Panel — Decolonising the Museum, live from Venice

Chidi Nwaubani joins curators and technologists to ask what a museum owes the communities it borrowed from. Doors open 18:00.

LOOTY Studio · 3 May 2025 · 3 min read
Panel — Decolonising the Museum, live from Venice
Releases

LOOTY NFT — Season Two mint is open

A new drop of digital twins, with proceeds funding the next round of scans. Provenance recorded on-chain, ownership returned to the diaspora.

LOOTY Studio · 18 Apr 2025 · 5 min read
LOOTY NFT — Season Two mint is open
Press

Featured in The Guardian: Rewriting Ownership

"A heist in reverse." The Guardian profiles LOOTY's method of scanning looted artefacts and handing the digital twins back to their communities.

Press · 22 Mar 2025 · 6 min read
Featured in The Guardian: Rewriting Ownership
Events

LOOTY × Art Dubai — Live Reconstruction

Watch a Benin Bronze rebuilt from a point cloud to a museum-grade digital object, in real time, on the fair floor.

LOOTY Studio · 9 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
LOOTY × Art Dubai — Live Reconstruction
News

New LiDAR scans added to the Open Archive

Fourteen new objects join the freely accessible archive this month, each with full provenance metadata.

LOOTY Studio · 30 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
New LiDAR scans added to the Open Archive
Releases

Ogene MIDI is now playable online

Can't make it to an exhibition? The browser version of Ogene MIDI lets you perform from anywhere.

LOOTY Studio · 8 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
Ogene MIDI is now playable online
Events

Workshop — Scan Your Heritage, London

A free hands-on session teaching consumer LiDAR capture for community archives. No experience needed.

LOOTY Studio · 14 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
Workshop — Scan Your Heritage, London
Press

BBC World Service: an interview with Chidi Nwaubani

On heritage, technology, and why a digital twin is more than a consolation prize.

Press · 20 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
BBC World Service: an interview with Chidi Nwaubani
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