Laura Splan
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New Media Art
Group Exhibition
"Baroque Bodies (Ambient Portals)" in ArtPrize "Ripple Effects" Exhibition
exhibition at Resonant Gallery with artists Laura Splan, Shana Moulton, Sabrina Ratté, Virginia L. Montgomery, Nikita Diakur...
2025
Group Exhibition
"Doilies" and "Renatured" in "Fragile Forms" at NYU Langone Art Gallery
featuring pioneering viral artworks (lace sculptures by Laura Splan, glass sculptures by Luke Jerram)
2025
Solo Exhibition
"Hypertelic" in RYAN LEE Gallery's RL Window on the High Line
kaleidoscopic molecular animations featured on New York City's High Line
2025
Artwork
"Bloom"
immersive 360° installation with 16-channel spatial soundscape by Linda Dement and Laura Splan in collaboration with the Cardiovascular Regeneration Group at UTS
2024
Commission
"Baroque Bodies (Sway)" in Getty PST
immersive interactive installation exploring social and biological interconnectedness through emergent visitor behavior
2024
Multimedia Performance
"A Guided Sublimation (Encode/Exhale)" at MoMA for Biodesign Summit
special morning performance screening of "A Guided Sublimation" for the Biodesign Summit at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
2024
Solo Exhibition
"Metafrictions" Preview at Onassis ONX
work in progress preview of extended reality collaborations presented by NEW INC and EY Metaverse Lab
2024
Artwork
"A Guided Sublimation: Portals" in the New Museum Store (NYC)
AT THE NEW MUSEUM: artist book with meditative text and kaleidoscopic images exploring epigenetic connections across micro and macro scales
2024
Collaboration
Vanderbilt Museum Planetarium Collaboration
creative technology and science collaboration with planetarium director, Dave Bush, exploring planetariums and star projectors as poetic devices for immersive multisensory experiences
2023
Commission
"A Guided Sublimation" at Vanderbilt Museum Planetarium
immersive planetarium experience with molecular animations, spatial sound, scent, and custom star projections exploring magnitudes of interconnectedness
2023
Group Exhibition
"Blank Stare" in "Paint to Print" at Les Enluminures
laser etchings on paper with brainwave patterns included in exhibition examining paradigm shifts in printmaking
2023
Writing
Syndemic Sublime: Rematerializing the Expanded Biotechnological Apparatus in the Age of Remote Intimacy and Immediate Precarity
essay and artist talk written for "Possibles", the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
2023
Artwork
"Metafrictions"
research collaboration and work in progress for NEW INC Artist Residency at EY exploring extended reality technologies (XR/VR/AR)
2023
Solo Exhibition
"Sticky Settings" Preview at UTS
immersive 360° installation with molecular animation and data-driven spatial sound
2022
Artwork
"Baroque Bodies (Ambient Portals)"
3D animations with molecular models and AI-generated images, accompanied by sonifications of scientific visualizations
2022
Artwork
"Baroque Bodies (Configurations)"
data-driven 3D animation and sound exploring ecological entanglements connecting environment and gene expression
2022
Group Exhibition
"Syndemic Sublime" in "Currents" at Center For Contemporary Arts
data-driven molecular animations using COVID data featured in new media art exhibition
2022
Commission
"Syndemic Sublime" in "La irrupció" at Santa Mònica for ISEA
electronic art exhibition with Laura Splan, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Sofia Crespo, Marina Núñez, Robertina Šebjanič, Nick Montfort...
2022
Group Exhibition
"Embodied Objects" and "Manifest" in "Haptic/Somatic" at Buley Library Gallery
artworks created with biometric data in exhibition exploring how technology expands our ability to perceive the natural world
2022
Group Exhibition
"Syndemic Sublime" at Pioneer Works
installation for Second Sundays with Laura Splan, Tin & Ed, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Alexandra Bell, Lizzi Bougatsos...
2021
Group Exhibition
"Unraveling" in "NORMAL" for Art in Odd Places
molecular animations projected onto the Museum of Illusions for street festival
2021
Artwork
"Syndemic Sublime"
generative 3D animations using COVID death data to disrupt amino acid residues on intertwined human and non-human proteins
2021
Commission
"Disentanglement" and "Doilies" in "Triënnale Brugge"
interventions exploring theme of “trauma” for triennial with Laura Splan, Adrián Villar Rojas, Hans Op de Beeck, Henrique Oliveira, Héctor Zamora, Nnenna Okore...
2021
Artwork
"Disentanglement"
triptych sculpture with synchronous animation of 3D molecular models of the coronavirus, human cells, and non-human antibodies
2021
Solo Exhibition
"Entangled Entities" at The New Gallery
installation with sensory experiences exploring interspecies entanglement through networked devices and tactile sculpture
2021
Group Exhibition
"Unraveling Together" in "Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving" on New Art City
video with AI transcription of remote textiles collaboration included in virtual exhibition reexamining cyberfeminism
2021
Artwork
"Unraveling II"
synchronous molecular animation triptych created with coronavirus, llama nanobody protein models
2021
Group Exhibition
"Pandemic Panorama" in "The Archive to Come" at Telematic Media Arts
animations included in exhibition reimagining the digital archive in the face of a global pandemic & social justice movement
2020
Group Exhibition
"Unraveling" in "Pre-Show" at Rooftop Films Drive-In
screening of molecular animations with sound screened during Pre-Show at Drive-In Movie theater
2020
Artwork
"Unraveling"
animations created with molecular models of the coronavirus spike protein
2020
Solo Exhibition
"Unraveling" at BioBAT Art Space
immersive installation with molecular animations and soundscape exploring remote intimacies
2020
Artwork
"Denatured"
animations created with screen recordings of software performances using molecular visualization software
2020
Artwork
"Renatured"
archival pigment prints created with molecular models of coronavirus spike protein
2020
Artwork
"Contested Territories"
networked laboratory mixers containing llama feces activated by Twitter activity relating to the contested status of science
2019
Artwork
"Remote Entanglements"
fan networked to wind data at vivarium housing animals who produce pharmaceutical products exploring embodiment
2019
Solo Exhibition
"Conformations" at Esther Klein Gallery
multimedia installation exploring hidden systems and invisible labor in the expanded biotechnological landscape
2019
Artwork
"Tickling the Bonds"
screen-recorded molecular visualization software interaction with alpaca nanobody/ricin models
2019
Group Exhibition
"Manifest" and "Recursive Expressions" in "Artfare Inaugural Exhibition"
sculptures and prints included in exhibition featuring Laura Splan, Dustin Yellin, Liz Nielsen, Miya Ando, Lola Flash
2019
Artwork
"Recursive Expressions"
giclée prints with computer generated & hand-manipulated patterns made with electromyography data
2016
Artwork
"Blank Stare"
laser etchings on paper with data-driven patterns generated from biometric measurements of attention level
2016
Artwork
"Material Expressions No. 2"
biometric performance with motorized sculpture and sound actuated by heartbeat of knitter
2016
Artwork
"Metronome"
biometric performance collaboration with heart rate data-driven sound by Hari Stojan and visuals by Iulia Miruna Radu
2016
Artwork
"Material Expressions No. 1"
biometric performance sculpture with motorized music box actuated by electromyography (EMG) data from bicep
2016
Artwork
"Manifest"
3D-printed sculptures with data-driven forms created with EMG measurements of facial expressions
2015
Writing
Manifest: The Role of Science in the Studio
essay on research-based studio practice at the intersections of art and science for "Art Practical: Art, Science & Wonder"
2015
Artwork
"autologousReflection"
participatory sculpture with computer generated animation and text
2015
Artwork
"Exquisite Corpse"
website with live generative text animation using adspeak language culled from real beauty products
2009