Surface Gallery is delighted to present Noise: Error in the Void, an exhibition by ScanLAB Projects.

Using terrestrial Lidar technology it is now possible to capture the world in three dimensions. This technology can create near perfect digital 3D replicas of buildings, landscapes, objects and events. But these digital replicas are always an illusion of perfection. Noise: Error in the Void explores the inherent mistakes made by modern technologies of vision. Here we see the unedited view of the world as seen through the eyes of the Lidar machine. Reality is shrouded in a cloud of mistaken measurements, confused surfaces and misplaced three dimensional reflections.

Noise: Error in the Void presents two films Noise//01 and //02. Each film take us on a series of orbits around a single, unedited, scan captured in Berlin in November 2013. The camera journeys through the droning spheres of error and cataclysmic arrays of inaccurate points.

Noise//01: The dome is almost full; the sky thick with points. The city surface is multiplied and reflected. Echoes of bridge and facade are manifest out of place. A column of overlapping points burns overhead. An axis of stainless steel railing, water and glass slices through. Fenestration bursts and loops. Infrared wavelengths dictate distance. The noise here is grided, aligned and perfectly wrong.

Noise//02: The scan sees more than is possible for it to see. The noise is draped in the colours of the sky. The clouds are scanned, even though out of range. Everything is flat; broken only by runway markings. Traces of dog walkers spike up into the cloud. The ground falls away to the foreground in ripples. The horizon line is muddy with the tones of the ground and the texture of the sky. The center is thick with points, too dense to see through. Underground only the strongest noise remains.

A single edition of each film is available for purchase. Exhibition visitors are encouraged to use headphones provided to listen to the soundtrack which is generated by the visual noise of the films.

ScanLAB Projects is a London based design studio experimenting with the potentials of large scale 3D scanning. They work internationally, taking hyper surveys of the world alongside scientists, activists, architects and filmmakers. The work they create is a response to these collected digital doppelgangers, manifested as objects, installations, images and film. Their work has been exhibited internationally, recently at Bergen KunstHall, Norway, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, CinemaXXI, Rome, The Architectural Association, London, and the Royal Academy, London.

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