FRAMERATE: ECHOES FROM TAIWAN

‘Echoes from Taiwan’ is ScanLAB’s first international chapter of FRAMERATE featuring a series of Taiwanese landscapes. ‘Echoes’ focuses on bustling, industrious activity in Taipei, Kaohsiung and in and amongst the breathtaking and spiritual landscapes across the island. The work is a collaboration with local Taiwanese producer, Stone Soup Productions and was commissioned by TAICCA.

For our studio’s 9 days in Taiwan we opted for a high frequency FRAMERATE scanning technique - i.e. scanning every few minutes over a short period of time at each location, such as 12 hours. We selected locations where significant change could be witnessed across a day, making careful decisions about locations with Stone Soup. Our locations included Ningxia Night market, Taipei overnight fish market, a busy intersection in Taipei, TaylorMade Golf factory in Kaohsiung, Shitoushan Quanhua Temple in Miaoli, Shifen Waterfall in Pingxi and a tea plantation in Yilan County.

Upon reaching Taipei, our team of three spent a day training three local team members of StoneSoup - who frequently work as photographers or cinematographers - on the 3D LiDAR scanning equipment and time-lapse technique. The StoneSoup team acted as our local producers, translators, 3D Scanning Technical Artists and fixers whilst we were in the country. We brought two scanners with us and recorded 1272 scans and approximately 32 billion points.

Together with ‘Pulse of the Earth’, ‘Echoes from Taiwan’ will premiere at the TCCF festival in Taipei, 7 - 12 November 2023.

FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth by ScanLAB Projects Echoes from Taiwan by ScanLAB Projects and Stone Soup Productions

Echoes from Taiwan by ScanLAB Projects and Stone Soup Productions