Free
Award-winning creative studio ScanLAB Projects are bringing their immersive installation FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth to the Cromer Artspace in Norfolk from Saturday 22nd March to Monday 21st April 2025, and to the Undershed, a new immersive venue at the Watershed in Bristol from the 2nd May to the 13th July 2025, with support from the Arts Council England.
In conjunction with the exhibitions, ScanLAB are hosting a series of hands-on 3D scanning workshops in collaboration with local community arts organisations. They will be visiting the Somerset Film on the 20 May to run three 90 minute sessions:
11am - 12.30pm
1.30pm - 3pm
3.30pm - 5pm
The workshops are designed for young people and adults with an interest in digital art and photography, as well as artists looking to integrate 3D scanning into their creative practice - and anyone with an interest in environmental and data science! Through practical exploration, you’ll discover how 3D scanning offers a new way to document, interpret, and reimagine the world around us - moving beyond traditional photography into a space where data becomes dynamic.
What You’ll Do
Capture your own 3D scan using a FARO laser scanner, the same technology used to create FRAMERATE.
Experiment with alternative scanning techniques, including iPhone scanning, to compare different approaches and their creative potential.
Explore the benefits of scanning vs. photography, gaining insight into how spatial data can transform artistic and scientific perspectives.
Bring an object to scan - something personal, meaningful, or intriguing - and see it reimagined in digital form.
Why Join?
This is more than a technical workshop - it's an opportunity to think in 3D and explore the growing role of digital imaging in art, science, and environmental storytelling. Whether you're new to 3D scanning or looking to deepen your practice, you'll leave with new skills, fresh ideas, and a deeper appreciation for how technology shapes the way we see the world.
Please bring something to scan for the workshop.
No previous experience required. All equipment provided.
About ScanLAB Projects
ScanLAB Projects is a pioneering creative practice.
We digitise the world, transforming temporary moments and spaces into compelling experiences, images and film. We design online environments, immersive installations and objects. We use our craft as a way to bear witness to the world - collaborating with musicians, dancers, researchers and scientists on evocative and meaningful stories.
Our primary medium is 3D scanning, a form of machine vision that we believe is the future of photography. As the electronic eyes for billions of mobile phones and driverless vehicles 3D scanners are the cartographers of the future. By critically observing places and events through the eyes of these machines our work hopes to glance at the future we will all inhabit.
ScanLAB’s award-winning work has featured on the BBC, Arte, The Guardian and The New York Times and been exhibited internationally including at La Biennale di Venezia, LACMA, The Louisiana, The New Museum NYC, SXSW, CPH:DOX, STRP, the Royal Academy, Tribeca Festival, The Berliner Ensemble, Mercer Labs NYC and The Barbican.
About FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth
FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth is a contemplative, multi-screen artwork that invites audiences to observe in another way. Over the course of two years, ScanLAB documented the British countryside and urban cityscape in millimeter-precise 3D time-lapse detail, and then interrogated the results in the form of meditative films designed for large-scale spatial viewing. The resulting work bears witness to environmental change on a spatial and temporal scale impossible to see directly with the human eye or the lens of traditional cameras.
The artwork reveals landscape alterations caused by human-centred industry and the immense forces of nature; destruction, extraction, habitation, construction, harvests, growth, and erosion. Three-dimensional stories unfold across an array of screens, scored by a powerful soundscape.
In addition to its merit as an artwork, the data collected and presented by FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth is ground-breaking scientific research, containing empirical, measurable facts. It began as a pioneering Audience of the Future research project funded by Innovate UK. The results of this R&D are being used by researchers from universities and institutes across the UK including ongoing collaborative research with the British Geological Survey, with our first paper and publicly accessible data sets published in NATURE.
To date, the exhibition has shown at La Biennale Venice International Film Festival , SXSW, BFI London Film Festival, Tribeca Festival, Taiwan Creative Content Festival, and at the Centre PHI in Montreal and Elektron in Luxembourg. The FRAMERATE body of work continues to grow. Scanning was completed in Taiwan in 2022 and a year of documentation in the Arizonan desert was recently completed for the production of a major new exhibition FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse opening at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix in October 2025.