Scanning Arctic Ice, Dancers, Mirrors & Landslides

Wednesday Nov 9, 2022, 3:00 PM → 6:00 PM America/New_York

Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA (162 5th Avenue)

Time:
3-4 pm (presentation) + 4-6 pm (Outreach, Education and Engagement-Flatiron Institute Mixer)

Location:
162 Fifth Ave., 2nd floor IDA (presentation) + promenade (Outreach, Education and Engagement-Flatiron Institute Mixer)

 

ScanLAB Projects digitize the world, transforming temporary moments and spaces into compelling experiences, images and film. Our studio is half technology lab, half artist workshop. We build tools that enable us to juggle datasets of over a billion individual points - exploring and playing with this data as beautiful, visual environments.

We use our craft as a way to bear witness to the world - collaborating with musicians, journalists, 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 Co-founders Matt Shaw & William Trossell will talk about voyages to the Arctic with Cambridge University, studying pressure ridges and creating an art installation of exact digital ice floe replicas that melt before the audience's eyes. We’ll explore the unscannable - objects beyond the reach of our scanner's infrared laser - waterfalls, graceful dancers and mirrored surfaces. And the beauty we find in the errors & mistakes as a laser scanner tries to capture the sky.

Finally we will share FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth. Recently on show at La Biennale in Venice the meditative imagery of FRAMERATE bears witness to landscapes in flux. The piece, which was supported by the Simons Foundation, reveals the impact of human behaviour and the immense force of nature in a room-scale immersive experience.

ScanLAB’s award-winning work has featured on the BBC, Arte, National Geographic, The Guardian and The New York Times and been exhibited internationally including at LACMA, The Louisianna, The New Museum NYC,  SXSW, CPH:DOX, STRP, the Royal Academy and The Barbican