Where our Urban Diorama vehicle cannot go, our Transplant can!

For smaller installations we have transplanted the hologram originally set inside the stripped interior of our expedition vehicle, into a portable mask portal.

Visitors peer through the holographic viewer and glimpse a slowly rotating digital effigy of the landscape. Millions of precisely measure points hover together in space to form a ghostly apparition of mountains, forest, cliff face and tumultuous waterfalls of the Yosemite National Park.

ScanLAB Projects is a pioneering creative practice: half art studio, half research laboratory. It is led by artists/architects/technologists Matthew Shaw and William Trossell. Shaw and Trossell share the common passion for highly crafted making and storytelling that manifests itself in their digital and physical works.

The artists’ studio is filled with a diverse team who juggle groundbreaking tech development and creativity on a daily basis. ScanLAB’s primary medium is 3D scanning, a form of machine vision that they argue is the future of photography and spatial representation. As the electronic eyes for billions of mobile phones and driverless vehicles, 3D laser scanners are the cartographers of the future. By critically observing places and events through the eyes of these machines ScanLAB’s work hopes to glance at the future we will all inhabit.