Laura Splan
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Posthuman Art
Artwork
"A Guided Sublimation (Movements)"
limited edition box set with double vinyl LP and chromogenic print portfolio
2025
Commission
"Cryptic Lineages" Performance Screening at Museum of the Moving Image
multimedia performance screening exploring the "ambient labor" of instrumentalized bodies through speculations on computational futures
2025
Artwork
"Cryptic Lineages"
AI-generated video and sound exploring how cultural constructions of the "natural" and the "individual" are shaped by the computational
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
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
IN STOCK (NYC): "A Guided Sublimation: Portals" in the New Museum Shop
artist book with meditative text and kaleidoscopic images exploring epigenetic connections across micro and macro scales
2024
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
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
Solo Exhibition
"Sticky Settings" Preview at UTS
private preview of immersive installation presenting animation and sound work in progress from "Sticky Settings" collaboration
2022
Artwork
"Baroque Bodies (Ambient Portals)"
3D animations with molecular models and AI-generated images, accompanied by sonifications of scientific visualizations
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
data-driven molecular animation commissioned for International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) at Santa Mònica Arts Centre
2022
Solo Exhibition
"Rhapsody for an Expanded Biotechnological Apparatus" at the Tang
immersive haptic sound installation with tactile rug made from laboratory animal fiber exploring remote sensing
2021
Group Exhibition
"Syndemic Sublime" at Pioneer Works
installation with animations & networked sculpture exploring interconnected systems in the biotechnological landscape
2021
Artwork
"Syndemic Sublime"
generative 3D animations using COVID death data to disrupt amino acid residues on intertwined human and non-human proteins
2021
Artwork
"Disentanglement"
triptych sculpture with 3-channel synchronous animation of 3D models (coronavirus, human cells, non-human antibodies) created using 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
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 Together"
participatory textiles collaboration with recorded Zoom performances and hand-made weavings
2020
Artwork
"Denatured"
animations created with screen recordings of software performances using molecular visualization software
2020
Artwork
"Remote Entanglements"
fan networked to wind data at vivarium housing animals who produce pharmaceutical products exploring embodiment
2019
Artwork
"Needle in a Haystack" Book
artist book with photographs from a biotech lab documenting mundane artifacts and poetic encounters in biotech laboratory
2019
Artwork
"Needle in a Haystack"
photographs from a biotech lab documenting mundane artifacts and poetic interfaces in biotech lab
2019
Artwork
"Suspended"
infinite video loop of cell suspension technique in biotech laboratory
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
Artwork
"Transformation Timer"
motorized wind chime sound sculpture with laboratory animal fiber and orphaned keys
2019
Artwork
"Boundary"
entryway with hand-spun laboratory llama fiber and text excerpt using immigration metaphor to explain biology
2019
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
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
"Collaborations with the Sun"
drawing performance with solar-powered instruments using charcoal from previous night's campfire at ReCreate Residency
2014
Artwork
"Qualitative Analysis"
videos that remix the scifi film “The Wasp Woman“ to explore notions of the mad scientist and unnatural transformation
2012
Artwork
"Spontaneous Narratives"
graphite drawings and computer generated soundscape created from spam email subject headings
2010