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Art Review in The Brooklyn Rail

"Beehive" (1993–1996) collaboration with Allyson Shaw included in exhibition documenting zines’ relationship to subcultures and avant-garde practices, from punk to conceptual, queer, and feminist art

Past Events: Timed Viewings at the Brooklyn Army Terminal

Brooklyn Museum, Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Artist Talk with Panel Discussion, "Women Artists and the Body"

exhibition space and web platform presenting work by artists with project sales supporting charitable causes

Research & Residencies: artist residency in 18,000 square foot army terminal space while BioBAT was closed for pandemic

Phaidon / Brooklyn Museum, Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer—The first publication dedicated to artists' zines in North America, a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice

CDC Museum & CDC Foundation, —This exhibit showcases the work of six artists who interpret the act of hand washing in innovative and unexpected ways. Recent H1N1 prevention campaigns have highlighted the importance of hand washing as one of the most effective ways to stay well.

Art Article in Hyperallergic

BioBAT, immersive installation exploring remote intimacy & hidden materialities during the pandemic

Art Interview in Extrapolations

Presented by POWRPLNT at Plexus Projects, Teaching Artist, "Creating Art Publications & Zines in Adobe InDesign"

Leonardo, Featured Speaker, "LASER Sciart Talks"

Morbid Anatomy's Observatory, Teaching Artist, "Dissection as Studio Practice"

Teaching Resources:

Art Interview in Sedition

University of Georgia School of Art, Professional Practices Advising, "Studio Visit with University of Georgia School of Art"

Residency Unlimited, Studio Visits & Studio Practice Critique, "Residency Unlimited Guest Visitor Program"

New Museum, Featured Speaker, "Building an Interdisciplinary Studio Practice: Finding Support Networks and Collaborators"

Art Feature in Fast Company

exhibition of screen-based video and new media art exploring the mechanics of function and dysfunction

LUCA School of the Arts, Professional Practices Advising, "Studio Visit and Artist Talk for LUCA School of Arts"

screening of molecular animations with sound screened during Pre-Show at Drive-In Movie theater

Dose Projects Launch Party & Inaugural Exhibition

Research & Residencies: developing hybrid XR artworks that reveal “virtual residues” persisting in the physical world with materially liminal experiences

exhibition of screen-based new media art exploring constructions and transgressions of membranes, borders, and boundaries

Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts, Participatory Workshop and Discussion, "Transgressing Boundaries: Bioart and Bacterial Transformation"

Innovation Lab at The Quick Center for the Arts, Artist Lecture, "Unfolding Narratives: Mining the Biotechnological Imaginary"

The National Arts Club , Featured Speaker, "Sticky Settings: Laura Splan × Adam Lamson"

Art Article in PNAS

series of solo exhibitions by international artists at Plexus Projects

sculptures and prints included in exhibition featuring Laura Splan, Dustin Yellin, Liz Nielsen, Miya Ando, Lola Flash

exhibition of screen-based digital media artworks presented in conjunction with Creative Tech Week at Plexus Projects

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Featured Speaker, "Voices in Contemporary Art: Electric Op"

Art Interview in Nature

Genspace Community Biology Lab, Teaching Artist, "Sticky Settings: Molecular Worldbuilding in Blender with artist Laura Splan"

group exhibition inaugurating Vitrine, a new series of solo exhibitions at Plexus Projects

exhibition exploring technological representations of the biological world

Snake Hair, Victoria Manganiello—Laura Splan’s open source computer generated text animation, "Breads for Breaking", is included in "You Stir the Pot: Recipes for Change", a collection of recipes that blend instructions for food preparation with instructions for social change.

exhibition exploring technological representations of the biological world

Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Artist Talk with Panel Discussion, "Material Turn Symposium"

uCity Science Center, Essay by Cindy Stockton Moore and others—Laura Splan’s project builds on her experience with weaving and fiber arts. Her uniquely multidimensional art practice highlights connections between old and new technologies, where the binary system of warp and weft parallels the circuitry commands of computational devices.

Art Interview in Arranging Tangerines

participatory haptic sound and textiles sculpture with rug made from hand-spun laboratory animal fiber

Stanford University / Leonardo LASER, Artist Talk, "Recursive Residues: Navigating Interfaces Between Virtual & Biological Worlds"

installation with animations & networked sculpture exploring interconnected systems in the biotechnological landscape

Past Events: Portrait from of Obscura’s "Who We Are" project on digital billboard in Los Angeles

remote sound collaborations with biotech workers and scientists rematerializing the coronavirus mRNA sequence

animations created with molecular models of the coronavirus spike protein

Simons Foundation, In Conversation Event, "The Sticky Space Between Art & Science: Laura Splan and Adam Lamson In Conversation with Salome Asega"

participatory textiles collaboration with recorded Zoom performances and hand-made weavings

Ecoartspace, Artist Talk with Q&A, "ecoart TECH"

Research & Residencies: molecular modeling residency and collaboration with biotech company Integral Molecular scientists

exhibition of screen-based digital media artworks presented in conjunction with Creative Tech Week at Dose Projects

immersive 360° installation with 16-channel spatial soundscape by Linda Dement and Laura Splan in collaboration with the Cardiovascular Regeneration Group at UTS

video with AI transcription of remote textiles collaboration included in virtual exhibition reexamining cyberfeminism

Telematic Media Arts: The Archive to Come, Artist Talk with Q&A, "Pandemic Panorama: Molecular Meditations on Remote Entanglements"

group exhibition that examines the intersections of science and art through contemporary art practice

Awards & Grants: MAAF grant for completion and presentation of new works in genres of sound art and moving image art, including emergent technology