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).

Known for their evocative and ambitious body of precision-crafted physical and digital artworks which reveal and reflect on beauty, fragility, and resilience, ScanLAB invites and challenges us to explore our collective future. Their groundbreaking use of 3D scanning and definitive pointcloud aesthetic has taken them around the world making a seminal body of work that reflects on society and the natural world: from former concentration camps to melting arctic ice, from Stephen Hawking’s office to cacti blooms in the Sonoran Desert. 

This artistic practice resolves in a series of physical and digital works which thrive at the creative edge of a tool’s ability. Their aesthetic provides new ways to see, understand, and feel beyond the capabilities of our eyes or traditional cameras. ScanLAB act as a witness, a process recursively embedded in their artworks; defining the moment when photography becomes spatial, the works serve as a unique archive of our rapidly changing planet. They aim to document and interpret both the data and the essence of environments and moments that might otherwise be lost to time. 

The London-based team brings together architects, craftspeople, photographers, engineers, documentary filmmakers and software developers. They regularly collaborate with choreographers, musicians, writers, technologists, climate scientists, and researchers to extend the studio's impact beyond the gallery - in scientific papers, performance, climate activism, and journalism.

ScanLAB’s diverse portfolio includes large scale installation, film, sculpture, XR, immersive storytelling and live performance which has been exhibited at prestigious cultural institutions including the Royal Academy (UK), LACMA (USA), Venice Biennale (IT), Louisiana (DK), Barbican (UK), the Photographers’ Gallery (UK), STRP Biennial (NL), Espacio Fundación Telefónica (ES), Southbank Centre (UK), the Science Museum (UK), The New Museum (USA), CPH:DOX (DK), SXSW (USA), the Berliner Ensemble (DE) and Tribeca (USA). It has also been widely published by the BBC, PBS, National Geographic, Arte, Nature, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Past collaborators include Danny Boyle, Greenpeace, Apple, MIT, Forensic Architecture and Cambridge University.

In an era of generative AI, computer graphics, and synthetic realities, ScanLAB embraces their commitment to investigation, precision, equity, sustainability and truth. 

A full list of exhibitions and awards can be found here.