sensory artworks & experiences exploring biological and cultural entanglements across magnitudes of space and time
exhibition featuring robotically carved marble sculptures by Laura Splan, Auriea Harvey, Phillip K. Smith III, Carla Gannis, Ashley Zelinskie...
ON VIEW THRU 8/30: "The Foragers" at Fortezza di Mont'Alfonso (ITALY)2026 LUMEN PRIZE FINALIST
"Baroque Bodies (Sway)"
finalist for the Experiential Innovation Award
"Cryptic Lineages" on Radiophrenia
September 6, 2026 at 12:00 am - 12:30 am (BST, UTC+1)
Midnight broadcast on Glasgow 87.9FM + online
artist book with meditative text and kaleidoscopic images exploring epigenetic connections across micro and macro scales
AT THE NEW MUSEUM (NYC): "A Guided Sublimation: Portals" in New Museum Storemultimedia 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"immersive interactive installation exploring social and biological interconnectedness through emergent visitor behavior
"Baroque Bodies (Sway)" in Getty PSTimmersive planetarium experience with molecular animations, spatial sound, scent, and custom star projections exploring magnitudes of interconnectedness
"A Guided Sublimation" at Vanderbilt Museum Planetariumwoven molecular visualizations exploring the "tactical tactile" through intuitive material engagement with complexity
"Tangible Variations"immersive installation with molecular animations and soundscape exploring remote intimacies
"Unraveling" at BioBAT Art Spacefan networked to wind data at vivarium housing animals who produce pharmaceutical products exploring embodiment
"Remote Entanglements"RECENT 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
Bruges Triennial, Museum of the Moving Image, Getty PST, CDC Foundation, Vanderbilt Planetarium, Van/Every Smith Gallery
RESEARCH-BASED COLLABORATIONS
Simons Foundation, Vanderbilt Planetarium, EY Intelligent Realities Lab, Integral Molecular, NEW INC, Open Fung, Normal Editions
RECENT ACQUISTIONS
Thoma Art Foundation, Anne & Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, University of Oregon, Langone Art Collection, Institute for Figuring, NYU Fales Library, uCity Science Center