
In anticipation of her upcoming residency with the Garfagnana Innovazione Digital Stone Project in Italy, Laura Splan created this 3-D model for a marble sculpture she’ll work on there with the assistance of robotic carving...The piece comes out of a partnership with Oakland nonprofit Open Fung. “Some of my conversations with scientists have explored everything from fungal computing and machine learning to the possibilities for bioremediation with fungi,” she says.