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Desert Botanical Garden is embarking on a new partnership with London-based pioneering artist studio ScanLAB Projects, bringing its groundbreaking visual and technical artwork here in 2025. The exhibit will be a first-of-its-kind in the Valley to connect science and nature at this scale in both indoor and outdoor environments.


In October 2023, ScanLAB Projects, led by cofounders Matt Shaw and William Trossell, started a unique experience for the Garden titled DESERT PULSE — a spatialized installation that displays footage of the desert landscape and desert flora in a remarkably new way using LiDAR 3D scanning.


ScanLAB Projects has selected 15 distinct sites across the Valley and at the Garden. These daily 3D scans will be recorded over a 12-month period. The recorded data will reveal unseen environmental changes — the result of human, natural and industrial processes — all impossible to see with the naked eye or through the lens of traditional cameras. The team will document cactus flowering and fruiting, shifting sediment patterns along the Salt River, recent fire-damaged desert and desert blooms. Locations include a desert development in Rio Verde, a saguaro growth monitoring site near Needle Rock, a recovering fire area in McDowell Mountain Preserve and a working landfill.


Through their specialized rendering techniques, ScanLAB Projects will turn the recorded data into breathtaking visuals that will be exhibited as an impressive multi-screen digital installation to be exhibited amongst the Garden’s plants and trails, as well as its new Exhibits Gallery.


DESERT PULSE is not just artwork, the data collected will contain empirical, measurable facts that can and will be used for research by the Garden’s team of scientists.

Phoenix

United States

Arizona

1201 N. Galvin Parkway

Desert Botanical Garden

Desert Pulse

Experience Arizona's Largest Combined Brewery & Distillery Facility.


If you’re a fan of SanTan's craft beers like MoonJuice and Devil’s Ale or the award winning Sacred Stave American Single Malt Whiskey, you’re going to love seeing how they’re made. SanTan Tours provide a peek into the science and similarities behind the brewing and distilling process.


Located in at SanTan's 35,000 square-foot production facility in Chandler, SanTan Tours are perfect for a fun weekend activity, corporate retreat, family outing, bachelor/bachelorette parties and more.


*Please call well in advance for tour reservations and plan to practice social distancing*

495 E. Warner Rd.

SanTan Gardens - Brewery & Distillery Tours

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

A weekly Low Rider Cruise in Downtown Glendale every Saturday from 5pm to 10pm! Get to La Perla early to grab a drink and a front-row seat!

La Perla Sports Cantina

Low Rider Cruise

Morgan Foster Entertainment presents Follies, a weekly kiki with a rotating cast of Phoenix's fiercest drag performers — from tenured pageant queens to dapper, dancing kings — and everyone in between each Saturday at Kobalt [https://www.kobaltbarphoenix.com/].

Kobalt

Follies Drag Show

Join Claudia B. and Pussy LeHoot each week for Saturday Stars, featuring special guests, at Charlie's Phoenix.

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Desert Pulse

Desert Pulse

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

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SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

Low Rider Cruise

Low Rider Cruise

Low Rider Cruise

This evening

Follies Drag Show

Follies Drag Show

Follies Drag Show

Follies Drag Show

Saturday Stars Drag Show

Saturday Stars Drag Show

Saturday Stars Drag Show