Scanlab Projects

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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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 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,