Laura Splan's interdisciplinary projects explore ecological entanglements across micro and macro scales. Her artworks and installations reveal the “GUI/gooey” or liminal technological spaces that mediate our relationship to nature and to our bodies. Her uncanny combinations offer new possibilities for understanding complexity through tangible encounters with seemingly intangible worlds.
robotically carved marble sculpture exploring molecular "microdramas" among fungal worlds and built environments
ON VIEW (ITALY): "The Foragers" at Fortezza di Mont'Alfonsolimited edition artist book with poetic text and kaleidoscopic images
IN STOCK (NYC, US): "A Guided Sublimation: Portals" in the New Museum Shopmultimedia performance screening exploring the "ambient labor" of instrumentalized bodies through speculations on computational futures
"Cryptic Lineages" Performance Screening at Museum of the Moving ImageAI-generated video and sound exploring how cultural constructions of the "natural" and the "individual" are shaped by the computational
"Cryptic Lineages"interactive immersive installation exploring entanglements at micro and macro scales using visitor movements and social interactions
"Baroque Bodies (Sway)" in Getty PSTexploring the "tactical tactile" through intuitive engagement with woven scientific visualizations of complex molecular interactions
"Tangible Variations"immersive planetarium experience with molecular animations, spatial sound, scent, and custom star projections
"A Guided Sublimation" at Vanderbilt Museum Planetariumimmersive installation with molecular animations and soundscape
"Unraveling" at BioBAT Art Spaceimmersive haptic sound installation with tactile rug made from laboratory animal fiber
"Rhapsody for an Expanded Biotechnological Apparatus" at the TangRECENT PUBLICATIONS
"Regardless of her medium of choice, Laura Splan succeeds in translating complex scientific concepts into sensory experiences."
Till-Holger Borchert in "TraumA: Triënnale Brugge" Exhibition Catalog
PublicationsRECENT PRESS
"Splan's work insists that the complexity of the biological world can be felt and experienced, even before it is fully understood."
Danielle Ezzo in "Ill Angles Only"
PressSPEAKING EVENTS: LECTURES & PANELS
Museum of the Moving Image, Onassis ONX, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Simons Foundation
COMMISSIONS FOR COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS
Bruges Triennial, Museum of the Moving Image, Getty PST, CDC Foundation, Vanderbilt Planetarium, Van/Every Smith Gallery
RESEARCH-BASED COLLABORATIONS
Simons Foundation, Vanderbilt Planetarium, Integral Molecular, NEW INC, EY Intelligent Realities Lab, Open Fung, UTS Data Arena, Dance Tech Collective, Normal Editions