Laura Splan
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Speculative Art & Design
Artwork
"Transformation Timer"
motorized wind chime sound sculpture with laboratory animal fiber and orphaned keys
2019
Artwork
"Material Expressions No. 2"
biometric performance with motorized sculpture and sound actuated by heartbeat of knitter
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
Group Exhibition
"Negligee (Serotonin)" in "TechNoBody" at Pelham Art Center
group exhibition exploring the mediated world's impact on and relationship to the physical body in our increasingly virtual realm
2015
Group Exhibition
"Braided Stethoscope" in "Gone Viral: Medical Science and Contemporary Textile Art" at Marion Art Gallery
braided stethoscope and other speculative medical device artworks in "Gone Viral: Medical Science and Contemporary Textile Art"
2013
Artwork
"Modular Systems"
collages made from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific magazine ads
2012
Artwork
"Qualitative Analysis"
videos that remix the scifi film “The Wasp Woman“ to explore notions of the mad scientist and unnatural transformation
2012
Artwork
"Entropy"
graphite drawing on watercolor paper
2011
Artwork
"Exquisite Corpse"
website with live generative text animation using adspeak language culled from real beauty products
2009
Artwork
"Fan (Anatomy of the Gaze)"
computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with retina anatomy as decorative motif
2009
Artwork
"Handkerchief (Anatomy of Tears)"
computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with tear duct anatomy as decorative motif
2009
Artwork
"Purse"
remnant cosmetic facial peel sculpture cast from breasts
2009
Commission
"Doilies" and "Trousseau" in "Re/Formations" at Van Every/Smith Galleries
textile sculptures in exhibition with Laura Splan, Rebecca Horn, Nancy Fried, Harriet Sanderson, Judith Scott...
2009
Artwork
"Wallpaper" & "Negligee" in "Manufractured" at Museum of Contemporary Craft
blood wallpaper and facial peel sculpture in exhibition with Laura Splan, Sonya Clark, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Marcel Wanders, Devorah Sperber...
2008
Artwork
"X-Ray Visions & Morphine Dreams"
photographic light boxes with digitally composited X-rays created from found images
2005
Artwork
"Doilies (SARS, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, Hepadna)"
digitally fabricated lace sculptures depicting viruses (SARS, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, Hepadna)
2004
Artwork
"Wallpaper/Samples"
wallpaper samples hand-painted with blood
2003
Artwork
"Tongue Depressors & Cotton Swabs"
hand-crafted speculative sculptures with accompanying performance video
2002
Artwork
"Stethoscope"
participatory sound sculpture with 25-foot long stethoscope
2002
Artwork
"Blood Scarf"
photographs of speculative medical apparatus hand-knit into intravenous scarf from clear vinyl tubing
2002
Artwork
"Exam Gown"
hand-knit textiles sculpture with large-scale photographic portraits that reimagines the institutional hospital gown
2002
Artwork
Catheter Bag Cozy
installation including photographs and a hand-knit vinyl tubing sculpture that is continuously pumped with blue liquid
2001
Artwork
"Upside Down, Inside Out"
silicon rubber sculptures cast from test tubes
2000
Artwork
"Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft"
hand latch hooked soft sculptures of oversized antipsychotic and antidepressant pills
2000