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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.

graphite drawings with soap bubble residue commissioned for exhibition about disease prevention and public health

remnant cosmetic facial peel sculptures cast from artist's hands

Reaktion Books, By Anne Green—A captivating history of gloves both real and mythical, practical and high fashion. This beautifully illustrated history of gloves draws on examples from across the world to explore their cultural significance.

Teaching Resources:

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

Laura Splan’s academic teaching and hands-on participatory workshops engage audiences with intersections of art, science, technology, and textiles. As a studio practice advisor, she has mentored groups and individuals in Sciart, Bioart, Creative Tech, and Contemporary Art disciplines.

Jönköping County Museum, By Otto von Busch/Clara Åhlvik—Now we do it ourselves. It has become more popular than ever to knit, crochet, carpentry, mend, exchange, reuse and sew. Before, almost everything would be bought in a store and made in a factory because it was nice. That is no longer the case. Homemade has become modern.

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

Research & Residencies: bioart residency and research exploring

installation of tactile lace viruses and facial peel sculptures commissioned for exhibition about disability and female identity

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

Exploratorium, By Karen Wilkinson & Mike Petrich—Brought to you by the Exploratorium's Tinkering Studio, "The Art of Tinkering" is a celebration of what it means to tinker: to take things apart, explore tools and materials, and build wondrous, wild art that’s part science and part technology.

Museum of Arts and Design, Participatory Workshop and Discussion, "Precarious Structures: Collaborative Unraveling & Weaving Project"

site-specific sculptural interventions constructed from remnant cosmetic facial peel commissioned for group exhibition

Stanford University, Visiting Lecturer, "Data as Material"

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

Preston Manor, Introduction by Stella Beddoe—"Unravelling the Manor House" opened at Preston Manor, part of Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove in May 2010.

hand-cut collages made from pseudoscientific magazine ads with hand-built ceramics depicting ad imagery

wallpaper samples hand-painted with blood

hand-crafted speculative sculptures with accompanying performance video

hand embroidery of text on remnant cosmetic facial skin peel

collages made from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific magazine ads

hand latch hooked soft sculptures of oversized antipsychotic and antidepressant pills

giclée prints with computer generated & hand-manipulated patterns made with electromyography data

Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series, UNC Chapel Hill, Artist Lecture and Studio Visits, "(Re)Materializing the Biological Imagination "

photographs of speculative medical apparatus hand-knit into intravenous scarf from clear vinyl tubing

collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and aspirational adspeak in magazine ads

collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles from adspeak

entryway with hand-spun laboratory llama fiber and text excerpt using immigration metaphor to explain biology

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

hand-knit textiles sculpture with large-scale photographic portraits that reimagines the institutional hospital gown

installation including photographs and a hand-knit vinyl tubing sculpture that is continuously pumped with blue liquid

collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak

hand-cut and pasted photocopied zine created in collaboration with Allyson Shaw with contributing artists and writers

collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudo-scientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak

collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudo-spiritual imagery in magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak

magazine collages using pseudo-scientific and pseudo-spiritual ads and hand-built ceramics with titles taken from adspeak

Art Review in VRT NWS

computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with retina anatomy as decorative motif

lace drawing created using artist's blood as ink commissioned for private art collection

Laura Splan is a New York City-based artist and speaker working at the intersections of Science, Technology, and Culture. Her interdisciplinary artworks, lectures, and collaborations explore the sublime complexity of the biological world while unraveling entanglements of natural and built systems.

exhibition at Tang Museum with participatory haptic sound installation and rug made from laboratory animal fiber

Marion Art Gallery, Curator's Essay by Leesa Rittelmann—Laura Splan's diminutive white lace doilies beg careful study. Such ornate tatted motifs recall fine family heirlooms passed down from generation to generation. Their complexity and delicacy bespeak an intense degree of labor and skill.

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

installation with digitally fabricated weavings, prints, and sculptures exploring the rematerialization of bodily experience

Museum of Contemporary Craft, By Steven Skov Holt & Mara Holt Skov—…This strangeness in Splan’s work results from her deliberate integration of classic fiber-based crafts with medical imagery and materials...Each of these beautifully crafted objects is simultaneously perverse and compelling…

TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Lee Jones, Greta Grip, GHY Cheung, Sara Nabil —TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

installation with sensory experiences exploring interspecies entanglement through networked devices and tactile sculpture

artworks rematerializing the invisible included in exhibition exploring intersections of art and science

"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

"Embodied Objects" computerized weavings with electromyography data-drive patterns in "Electric Op" at Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Santa Monica Art Center, Essay by Ian Alan Paul—In "Syndemic Sublime’s" computer-generated animations of SARS-CoV-2, antibodies, and cell receptors, we observe the intricate folds and features of this biotechnical (or is it technobiological?) landscape...formal boundaries between an algorithm and a life blur...

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