FRAMERATE: Pulse Of The Earth

FRAMERATE is a contemplative artwork, a research tool and a shared experience.

We invite you to bear witness to 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. Hypnotic imagery surrounds you. Audio shifts through the space. Spring breaks, summer sun shines dappled through the leaves as they turn amber and fall a second later. In a quaint English garden a pumpkin grows. A thousand tonnes of steel is crushed. Sand ebbs and flows while a cliff retreats. 268 cows are milked. 519 pints are drunk.

Created from thousands of daily 3D time-lapse scans of British landscapes, the work observes change on a scale impossible to see with the lens of traditional cameras.

This is not just an artwork. The data collected and presented by FRAMERATE is ground-breaking scientific research, containing empirical, measurable facts.

We glimpse a future perpetually documented by the eyes of a billion autonomous vehicles and personal devices, creating high fidelity spatial records of the earth.

FRAMERATE invites you to observe in another way. To think and feel in another time scale: geological time, seasonal time, tidal time. To contemplate change, and the pace of change. This is a space where your perspective might shift.

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ScanLAB Projects is a pioneering creative practice.

We digitise the world, transforming temporary moments and spaces into compelling permanent experiences, images and film. We design online environments, immersive installations and objects.

Our primary medium is 3D scanning, a form of machine vision that we argue is the future of photography and much more beyond. 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 been commissioned by the BBC, National Geographic, Channel 4, The Guardian and The New York Times. It has been exhibited internationally including at LACMA, The Barbican, SXSW, CPH:DOX, STRP, The New Museum, The Louisianna, Ars Electronica and the Royal Academy.