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Installation view of ScanLAB Project’s FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around US. Photo credit: Anjelica Jardiel
On View: 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th June 2024
FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around Us, a spatial documentary art installation from London’s ScanLAB Projects will have its World Premiere at Tribeca Festival as part of the 2024 Immersive program on show at Mercer Labs Museum of Art & Technology, New York.
New York, NY. June 7 2024 - Award-winning creative studio ScanLAB Projects is exhibiting the World Premiere of the art installation, FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around Us, as part of the
ground-breaking Tribeca Immersive exhibition at the Tribeca Film Festival 2024, created especially for the cutting-edge, brand new media systems at Mercer Labs. Rhythms Around Us
plays all day at Mercer Labs on June 8, 11, 14, and 17th as part of the Far From Nature program.
Created from thousands of daily, high resolution 3D time-lapse scans of landscapes and cityscapes, FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around Us observes change on a scale impossible to see
with the lens of traditional cameras or with the naked eye. The result is a breathtaking,
ballroom-scale artwork that bears witness to the flux of life on earth, environmental change, our
relationship to that change, and to each other. Surrounded by shifting pointcloud landscapes,
submerged in sound, we scale our perspective. Collectively, we see the beautiful, creative, and
destructive forces of nature and humanity. We are a part of this rhythm, we contribute to the
cacophony, we are in sync, and we catastrophically collide with the beating pulse of our planet.
Rhythms Around Us is the second work in the FRAMERATE series, created and edited especially for the epic sound and visual system in the Main Hall at Mercer Labs in New York. Aligned with the FRAMERATE series, Rhythms Around Us is an artwork, a shared experience and meaningful scientific data presented in a groundbreaking form of 3D documentary film.
“This is an epic, human powered undertaking. Our teams have been hiking into these landscapes every single day for several years, come rain, shine, snow, or storm, setting up our scanning equipment, precisely measuring billions of points and collecting terabytes of data.”
Anetta Jones, Senior Producer, ScanLAB Projects
Installation view of ScanLAB Project’s FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around US. Photo credit: Anjelica Jardiel
Rhythms Around Us is a spatial documentary explored from the inside out; bringing the audience inside the data, inside the scenes; living and breathing in seasonal time, geological time, and in real time. This version of FRAMERATE explores a new expression and new pace, inviting the audience to feel the rhythms of the planet as the work envelops them across 9000 square feet of projected wall space.
“FRAMERATE is an opportunity to look into a future perpetually documented and
catalogued by the eyes of a billion autonomous vehicles and personal devices, creating high fidelity spatial records of the earth, measuring everything.”
William Trossell, Co-Founder & Co-Director, ScanLAB Projects
FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around Us is a living tribute, a research tool and an invitation to view our world with new eyes. It’s a ground-breaking form of 3D timelapse cinema, presented in an immersive, dimensional experience that leverages principles of human perception and attention for greater impact. It’s a glimpse into the future of cinema, a sobering observation, and a hopeful moment - all at once.
“It’s important to remember this is not just an artwork. What you see inside FRAMERATE is real. The data collected and presented is ground-breaking scientific research, currently under peer review by NATURE, containing empirical, measurable facts and also occasionally whimsical truths. When you experience FRAMERATE you see 268 cows milked. 519 pints drunk. 1528 mm of rainfall. 174,000 people commute. 2,657 flowers bloom. 1 breached aquifer. The bin in the pub gets emptied, twice.”
Matt Shaw, Co-Founder & Co-Director, ScanLAB Projects
The FRAMERATE Series
R&D for FRAMERATE started in 2019, with the first year of daily scans and concurrent
development of new software and processing techniques. The first clips of FRAMERATE were
shared to delegates at COP26, the UN Global Climate Conference in Glasgow in November 2021
FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth, the first installation artwork, was shown as a Special Preview as part of the official Arts Programme at SXSW 2022. It world premiered at La Biennale de Venezia in September 2022, then showed at BFI London Film Festival in October 2022 and at Centre PHI in Montreal from March - June 2022. The first international chapter to Pulse of the Earth was made in Taiwan in 2023 in collaboration with TAICCA, premiering as Echoes from Taiwan at TCCF in November 2023.
The FRAMERATE Series continues to grow, with the Rhythms Around Us World Premiere at Tribeca Immersive in 2024. The third major artwork, FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse is in production now - we have been scanning daily in Arizona since October 2023. Desert Pulse is
commissioned by the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix to open throughout the Garden and
Galleries in October 2025.
Sustainability
Reflecting and deepening the studio’s relationship to sustainability is central to the core artistic
vision and message of FRAMERATE. As part of the body of work and wider studio culture,
ScanLAB continuously examines the environmental impacts of our studio, and in particular the
production and sharing of FRAMERATE internationally. We have created and publicly shared
policies, case studies and tools to monitor project impact and foreground mindful
decision-making across the studio.
Supporters
This presentation of FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around Us at Tribeca is supported by:
Tribeca Film Festival | Mercer Labs | British Council | UKRI | Audience of the Future | Arts Council England | Simons Foundation | British Geological Survey | COP26 | Doc Society Climate Story Unit
Tribeca Immersive Schedule
FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around Us is on show at Mercer Labs Museum of Art & Technology, 21 Dey Street, New York, NY 10007.
Showing Dates: 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th June 2024
The artwork is on a continuous 12 minute loop and audiences can enter the work at any stage
and remain within the artwork for as long as they would like - sitting, walking, and exploring the
work.
Installation view of ScanLAB Project’s FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around US. Photo credit: Anjelica Jardiel
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 make films, online environments, immersive installations and objects. We use our craft as a way to bear witness to the world - collaborating with artists, performers, journalists 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, National Geographic, The
Guardian and The New York Times and been exhibited internationally including at LACMA, La Biennale di Venezia, The Louisiana, The New Museum NYC, SXSW, CPH:DOX, STRP, the Berliner Ensemble, Centre PHI, Konschthal Esch, the Royal Academy and The Barbican.
FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around Us is the second in a larger body of research and
installation-based artwork continuing across the globe. It’s an honour to present the world
premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth, the multi-screen artwork is available to tour now. The next major work is FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse, commissioned by the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix to open in October 2025.
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