Syndemic Sublime in "Currents" at Center For Contemporary Arts

data-driven molecular animations using COVID data featured in new media art exhibition
Group Exhibition

Syndemic Sublime in "Currents" at Center For Contemporary Arts

Syndemic Sublime (Pangolin, Llama, SARS-CoV-2) was included in the 2022 Currents New Media Festival. Syndemic Sublime is a series of data-driven computer-generated animations created using COVID-19 data libraries and molecular visualization software. The animations intertwine molecular models of SARS-CoV-2 with both human and non-human protein structures such as antibodies and cell receptors. The generative movement is created using data from COVID deaths in the U.S. over the first 20 months of the pandemic to disrupt the 20 amino acid residues along the protein structures. The resulting disruptions create mesmerizing tableaus that are sometimes spastic and sometimes sublime.

Syndemic Sublime (Pangolin, Llama, SARS-CoV-2) was included in the 2022 Currents New Media Festival. Syndemic Sublime is a series of data-driven computer-generated animations created using COVID-19 data libraries and molecular visualization software. The animations intertwine molecular models of SARS-CoV-2 with both human and non-human protein structures such as antibodies and cell receptors. The generative movement is created using data from COVID deaths in the U.S. over the first 20 months of the pandemic to disrupt the 20 amino acid residues along the protein structures. The resulting disruptions create mesmerizing tableaus that are sometimes spastic and sometimes sublime.

Artists

Adrian Leverkuhn   Light Touch
Alejandro Borsani   La Isla de Vidrio (The Glass Island)
Andrea Polli   The GLOW (Growing Life on Other Worlds) Pod
Andrew Frueh   Kendrick + Gilbert
Anne Spalter   Sky Ship
Ash Garwood   Alter
Avital Meshi   Face it!
Billie Mitchell   Period of Revolution (.)
Brad Gallagher   Rumpus Room For Dancers
Bun Stout   One Fate Stupid
Carlisle / Hamilton   Untitled
Cezar Mocan   Arcadia Inc.
Colin Ives   Garden in the Machine
Cyane Tornatzky   Duets
Dante Biss-Grayson   Digital Sprit Dancer
Davida Singer   deluge rio grande + who’s the blue voice?
Emma Forgues   Mesocosm + Pero sans Cimon
Emmett Palaima   Modular Triptych: Great Wurm
Grace Grothaus   Sun Eaters
Heather Warren-Crow   Information + There is Something in Good Men That Really
Yearns for Discipline
Hedwige Jacobs   Personal Space
Hope Strickland   if I could name you myself (I would hold you forever)
Hsin-I LIN   [ Khun-giân ] :The Third Voice
Ian Gibbins   The Life We Live Is Not Life Itself
Johan Fredrik Källman   Luxtriplicata
Joseph Farbrook   Higher Faster Stronger
Judy K Suh   Impression, Seasons
Karl Munstedt   Encryptid
Kenzie Housego   An Artistic Exploration of Contemporary Online Courtship + Wearables
Kirsten Angerbauer   Pink Noise, 23hz
Laura Splan   Syndemic Sublime
Leonardo Madriz   Letters to Home, Pt. 1
Luke Bern Carr   Staircase
Lyra Mancini   Mirror Mirror
Manolis Daris-Bécotte   Primordial Dismemberment
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli   Requiem – Between a Barrel and a Hearth
Margaret Thompson   Brilliant Universe
Maryam Khaleghiyazdi   Speaking Blanket
Masha Vlasova   Her Type
Matthew Schoen   Assemblages
Maximillian La Rocco   Moving Pictures Gallery
Mollye Bendell   Outgrown
Omar Lavalle   CLOSE _ perspective #1
Owen Lowery   Song of Slime
Pablo-Martín Córdoba   Substance
Paula Gaetano Adi   A Robocalyptic Manifesto: Techno-Politics for Liberation
Reilly Donoavan   Machine Blooms
Ruben Olguin   Acequia Madre
Ryan Robson   Gypsum + Skipping Stones
Samuel St-aubin   Prosperity II + The Spaghetti Machine
Sarah Pucill   Eye XCut
Sarah Trad   Clench My Fists
Sebastian Morales   Cumulus
Seph Li   相/Phase
Seylon Stills   Laki’s Birds
Shane Coffing   Synchrony
Shomit Barua   Degrees of Granularity
Susanne Dietz   Gazes from Beyond the Grave
Theo Krantz   Subliminal Excercise
Tirtza Even   2nd Person
Tivon Rice   Models for Environmental Literacy
Tristen Ives   Double Whammy
Yoon Chung Han   Roads in You
Yoonjoo Lee   Stick Bugged Speedrun
Young-min Choi   Cloud Mirror + Chordal Distance
Zuyva Sevilla   Xeros

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Interalia: Meeting Points

...Laura Splan spent three months in 2020 collaborating with Integral Molecular scientists Dr. Benjamin Doranz and Dr. Edgar Davidson over Zoom to produce her series...created using Pymol to visualize intricate molecular models of SARS-CoV-2. Splan explains that “by using the specialized features of the software in unconventional ways, I unravel and distort the folded structure of the coronavirus spike protein. I playfully manipulate the folded forms...

Voice of America

...With the coronavirus outbreak, people worldwide have become preoccupied with a threat so physically small that it can’t be seen. The invisible world of viruses has long fascinated multi-media artist Laura Splan, who is artist in residence at a biotech lab...

Currents New Media Festival
Center for Contemporary Arts
NEA National Endowment for the Arts