Brooklyn-based artist Laura Splan is taking science to the next level – she is turning molecular images and animations into beautiful works of art.
Extrapolations, April 28, 2022
Schrödinger Editorial Team
Brooklyn-based artist Laura Splan is taking science to the next level – she is turning molecular images and animations into beautiful works of art.
A transdisciplinary artist with a focus on biomedical visuals, Splan’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art & Design, The New York Hall of Science, Beall Center for Art + Technology, among others. Her most recent artworks center around molecular animations which she creates, in part, by leveraging Schrödinger’s PyMOL software, a molecular 3D visualization system to view, share and analyze molecular data.
With two exhibitions of her molecular animations coming up in June 2022 – at Currents New Media Art Festival in Sante Fe, New Mexico, and International Symposium on Electronic Art in Barcelona, Spain – we sat down with Splan to discuss her work, how she got started, and what she hopes her art conveys to the larger community.
