Desert Pulse | Desert Botanical Garden

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Nature’s Feature Film. Get a Front Row View.

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse turns the slow-moving desert into a cinematic experience. Five immersive installations. Thousands of images. One unforgettable journey. Now at Desert Botanical Garden.

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Testimonials

“ScanLAB is among a handful of artist-led groups using data to explore the climate crisis, giving visual forms to complex and daunting subjects…”

– New York Times

“FRAMERATE is an exploration of environmental and societal change at speeds and scales less visible to us.”

– Cool Hunting

“There’s an environmental imperative to Desert Pulse… The intention is to show, not tell, the speed of climate change, to visualise destruction in a fair and comprehensible way.”

– Financial Times

“Years in the making, this impressive experience was created by a London-based artist studio, ScanLAB Projects,… The result is a mesmerizing fusion of photography, LiDAR scanning, motion and sound that reveals the hidden transformations of the Sonoran Desert.”

-AZCentral

Get to know scanLAB Projects

ScanLAB Projects is an artist-led studio exploring the world through machine vision technologies – founded in 2010 by Matt Shaw (b 1983) and William Trossell (b 1985). Pioneering the artistry of 3D scanning, their work has explored former concentration camps, melting arctic ice, the formation of memory and the motion of dancers to create dynamic artworks and fact-based datasets utilized for scientific papers, climate activism and journalism. In an era of generative AI, computer graphics and synthetic realities, ScanLAB embraces their commitment to investigation, precision, equity, sustainability and truth.

“FRAMERATE is a glimpse into the future of cinema, a sobering observation, and a hopeful moment - all at once.”

- Matthew Shaw, Co-Founder of ScanLAB

Desert Pulse is an all-ages experience. Desert Pulse contains flashing images which may not be safe for those with photosensitive epilepsy.