Scanlab Projects

Scanlab Projects ScanLAB Projects is an award winning, pioneering creative studio.

We digitise the world, transforming temporary moments and spaces into compelling permanent experiences, images and film for all creative industries.

It has been a privilege, and to be honest both deeply challenging and inspirational to be a part of this vital piece of ...
05/03/2026

It has been a privilege, and to be honest both deeply challenging and inspirational to be a part of this vital piece of work. Acknowledging the total paradox of using here to spread the word - please watch this.

Molly V’s THE MACHINES on tonight Thurs 5th March 9pm

We hope every screening will inspire people to connect and build momentum for a more accountable digital future.

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05/03/2026

Molly V’s THE MACHINES on THIS EVENJNG Thurs 5th March 9pm

The Guardian – Molly vs the Machines review – a powerful story of love, loss and the dangers of social media

‘Nearly a decade later, her best friends from school, interviewed for this documentary, have grown into articulate, impressive women in their early 20s. Watching them, you can’t help but be struck all over again by the terrible tragedy of Molly’s death and the loss to her family, who will never see the young woman Molly would be now.’

Acknowledging the total paradox of using here to spread the word - please watch this.

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01/03/2026

– 5 Stars: Molly vs the Machines: a film every parent should watch

‘This devastating and brilliant documentary’

‘As brave and dignified as Ian Russell is, it is Molly’s friends who leave the deepest impression. Now in their early twenties, they remember her with warmth and have a sharp understanding of why she died. These are members of the social media generation who understand its evils, even if they are still on Instagram.’

‘If there is a grain of hope it lies in films like this one.’

Acknowledging the total paradox of using here to spread the word - please watch this.

Molly V’s THE MACHINES Nationwide World Premiere TODAY March 1st in cinemas across the UK (ticket link in bio) and on Thurs 5th March 9pm

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27/02/2026

Molly V’s THE MACHINES Nationwide World Premiere March 1st in cinemas across the UK (ticket link in bio) and on Thurs 5th March 9pm

It has been a privilege, and to be honest both deeply challenging and inspirational to be a part of this vital piece of work. Acknowledging the total paradox of using here to spread the word - please watch this.

From a teenager’s suburban bedroom to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, Molly Vs THE MACHINES is the story of a heartbroken father’s quest to uncover the truth behind his daughter’s death and his fightback against how the most powerful corporations of the modern age operate.

The film arrives in cinemas at a time when politicians are actually talking about taking urgent action. This is a film to watch together and to have conversations about - whatever your starting point may be. Take a friend with you, take a parent or grandparent, or anyone over the age of 15 who needs to know that what happened to Molly could happen to any of us. Once we fully understand the problem, we can work together to push for solutions that work for everyone.

We hope every screening will inspire people to connect and build momentum for a more accountable digital future.

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Desert Pulse | Limited Edition ReleaseFive iconic frames, five editions, five impressions. Newly released Limited Editio...
07/01/2026

Desert Pulse | Limited Edition Release

Five iconic frames, five editions, five impressions.

Newly released Limited Edition prints from the most powerful moments of FRAMERATE Desert Pulse available in our Editions Shop.

Only 5 of each edition are available. When they’re gone, they’re gone.

Link in bio or DM for details. Shipping worldwide.

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse
‘Falling Saguaro’

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse
‘Falling Saguaro: From Above’

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse
‘Fiery Stigma - Echinocereus Rigidissimus’

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse
‘Spherical Cladodes - Tephrocactus Geometricus’

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse
‘Three Synchronised Blooms - Astrophytum Myriostigma var. Nudum’

SonoranDesert DigitalLandscape LiDARdarArt NewMediaArt ArtInstallation
LimitedEdition ArtPrints

15/10/2025

ScanLAB Projects in the !

"Some artists offer a glimpse of a future that is already occurring in some climates. Others imagine a world past the point of survival."

"A few years ago, the garden () invited to create a digital installation that explores how the changing climate was affecting plants, including the now fallen saguaro. ScanLAB is among a handful of artist-led groups using data to explore the climate crisis, giving visual forms to complex and daunting subjects, not to spark fear but rather to educate on the facts."

Don't miss your chance to see the exhibition, which continues at  through May 10, 2026. Get your tickets at desertpulse.org

Link in bio to read the full New York Times article, also appearing in print on October 19, 2025 (Page 16 of the NY edition)

Images 2-3 'Calyx'; Elsewhen’, installation views, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix ()
Photos courtesy: ScanLAB Projects,

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse is a portrait of a place over time:a year in the life of Phoenix and the Sonoran Desert.Vast lan...
13/10/2025

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse is a portrait of a place over time:
a year in the life of Phoenix and the Sonoran Desert.

Vast landscapes ebb and flow. The intimate breath of cacti is revealed.
Fragile soil subtly shifts. Sudden rushes of green flood desert floors. The sun arcs across epic rock formations. Heat lingers, longer each year.
Old life bakes into slow decay. Scorched. New life emerges. Succulent forms fold, expand, contract, and blossom in an exquisitely adapted response. 

Phoenix grows.  New asphalt laid; new homes born.
We irrigate, cultivate, herd, harvest, consume.
We gather - in ritual, in routine, in celebration.
Together we make beautiful patterns and leave permanent imprints.

Desert Pulse invites your attention,  a different perspective attuned to different timescales:
The lifespan of a saguaro. The slow formation of an aquifer. The fleeting blaze of a bloom.

Join us to contemplate change, and the pace of change.
To pause, to think, to hope.

‘Desert Pulse’ Gallery
365 days of LiDAR data and 93 days timelapse photogrammetric data, pointcloud animation, multi-channel video, spatial audio
24 minute loop

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse, now open at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix ().

photos courtesy : ScanLAB Projects,

17 million years of spheroidal weathering - 2,000 slingshot seed balls - 7,687 horseshoe prints - 3 saguaro spines, nail...
13/10/2025

17 million years of spheroidal weathering - 2,000 slingshot seed balls - 7,687 horseshoe prints - 3 saguaro spines, nail-polished red

Twelve months of faithful observation. Twelve months of digital pilgrimage.

We widen our view, extend, journey, explore. Our camera travels. The landscape reveals itself over layered time: the time it takes for a cactus to grow, for a path to form, for rain to fall, for fire recovery.

Fresh horseshoe prints mark the sand between boulders shaped by 17 million years of spheroidal weathering. 

Saguaros, previously measured by hand, are bathed daily in delicate, millimetre-precise waves of infrared LiDAR. We witness them hydrate, expand, store, conserve over 12 patient months.

The scorched earth of the Diamond Fire transforms: catastrophic charcoal to promising green and quickly tinder brown again.

‘Elsewhen’
365 days of LiDAR data, pointcloud animation, single channel video, composed audio
10 minute loop
h.3300 x w.3260 x d.300mm

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse, now open at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix ().
photos courtesy : ScanLAB Projects,

4,117 opuntia flowers bloom - 9.27 inch nopal growth - 3 cholla dance - 1 bird nestIn this exact space, at this exact mo...
13/10/2025

4,117 opuntia flowers bloom - 9.27 inch nopal growth - 3 cholla dance - 1 bird nest

In this exact space, at this exact moment, time unfolds.
A full year of transformation sweeps by in an instant.

Cacti dance, contract, swell, and bloom in a sculptural celebration of form. 
Light skims over thorn-hide, spine-cloth, succulent shell.
Every spike casts its own shadow.

That same year flashes by again, and again, and again.
A season lasts seconds.
A driving, metronomic cadence.

‘Present Echoes’
365 days of LiDAR data, pointcloud animation, two-channel video, composed audio
5 minute loop
h.3300 x w.1340 x d.300mm and h.1144 x w.3264 x d.300mm

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse, now open at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix ().

photos courtesy

2 fiery orange echinocereus rigidissimus stigma - 185,101 glochids twitch -9,069 robotic spirals - 617 spinesA living co...
13/10/2025

2 fiery orange echinocereus rigidissimus stigma - 185,101 glochids twitch -9,069 robotic spirals - 617 spines

A living collection translated into luminous form.
Fizzing, crackling, twisting: compression explodes in exuberant release.
Data dances. Pixels bloom.

We feel the intimate breath of cacti.

Astrophytum flowers unfurl among expanding nests of goat horn spines.
Echinocereus petals peel, allowing a glimpse of fiery stigma.
Opuntia weave, wiggle and wave fresh prickly pads. 

Buds array in sequence. Meticulously measured, vibrantly alive, intensely specific.
A forensic analysis of beauty.

’Calyx’
93 days timelapse photogrammetric data, pointcloud animation, single channel video, composed audio
7 minute loop
h.1500 x w.5180mm x d.300mm

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse, now open at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix ().
photos courtesy : ScanLAB Projects,

7 generations of farmers - 1,312 tonnes of alfalfa - 1 stable aquifer —30,022 tubersVast landscapes ebb and flow.Moistu...
12/10/2025

7 generations of farmers - 1,312 tonnes of alfalfa - 1 stable aquifer —30,022 tubers

Vast landscapes ebb and flow.
Moisture arrives, absorbs, departs.
The surface of the earth is moved and marked: by water, by machines, by people.

A quarter-mile long mechanical arm sprays 1,116,322 gallons of groundwater. 
A new community, 1,385 new homes, born on the edge of the Tonto National Forest
Each plot a piece of the desert lost.
We dig a 3,448,489,241 ft³ hole to build a city - and fill it back in with parts of that city we no longer want. 

We park, we shop, we repeat.
The water level rises and falls.
Tire tracks roar.

It is too hot here.
It is too dry here.

‘Horizon | Imprint’
365 days of LiDAR data, pointcloud animation, single channel video, composed audio
20 minute loop
h.3560 x w.13060 x 300mm

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse, now open at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix ().

photos courtesy: ScanLAB Projects,

Thousands of stunning images. Five monumental video installations. One transformative experience.It was our joy and hono...
10/10/2025

Thousands of stunning images. Five monumental video installations. One transformative experience.

It was our joy and honor to welcome the first visitors to ‘FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse’ . These artworks are a portrait of Phoenix and the Sonoran Desert: a flood of precisely engineered pointcloud poetry – data driven and crafted with intuition.

It is our record, our response, and our invitation to bear witness to this landscape, and to the natural and human processes that challenge and sustain life here. Open to the public 11 October.

photos : the artists,

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