16/04/2025
Museum Musings (4): FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth
📍Location: Cromer ARTSPACE
❤️Favourite Artwork: Happisburgh Beach (from above)
🏷Favourite Frame Stat: 519 Pints Drunk
💡Tattoo Inspiration: Crumbling Sandcastles
📜What I learnt:
• ScanLAB are a pioneering creative agency, bringing together architecture, art and data collection.
• FRAMERATE is a serious of timelapses, made from thousands of daily 3D scans, to illustrate change that cannot be captured by regular cameras.
• It has been exhibited at: COP26; SXSW; Venice Biennale; BFI London Film Festival; Centre PHI in Montreal; Taiwan Creative Content Festival; Elektron in Luxembourg, and Tribeca Festival at Mercer Labs in New York City.
• ScanLAB worked with the Council and local photographers when capturing the Norfolk heritage sights Happisburgh Beach, Felbrigg and Sidestrand Beach - it felt all the more impact to experience the exhibition in its natural Norfolk habitat.
• Although displayed here as an artwork, the process collected a lot of environmental data for scientific exploration.
Here’s a taster of my experience:
I stepped inside to a calm darkness. Meditative music and a kind-faced woman greeted me. I was talked through what to expect and then left to soak in the scenes. FRAMERATE is truly mesmerising. Once you start watching it’s hard to tear yourself away. In mere seconds you bare witness to plants blooming, the seasons changing in a wood, a quarry loading truck after truck, the bustle of London commuters, skyscrapers growing, pub-goers drinking, the daily routine of a herd of cows, an-ever expanding sandcastle being washed away by the waves- no fort too strong for the mighty tide.
Read the full blog (link in bio/story highlight)
https://studiomd.design/blogs/museum-musings/framerate-pulse-of-the-earth