2016–2017
archival pigment prints on hot press cotton rag
24 H × 24 W in (60.96 H × 60.96 W cm) each
Squint uses electromyography (EMG) data collected while squinting to generate form. The numerical EMG data was visualized in custom software that was written to repeat, rotate, and randomly colorize EMG waveforms. The computer-generated images “weave” the waveforms together in both directions—warp and weft. While the overall image has a geometric, unified, and even tidy form, upon close inspection one can see the chaotic structure of each end of each waveform that has been altered “by hand”. Using a vector-imaging program, the flat zero value at the beginning and end of each waveform has been teased out and reshaped to create a woven fabric-like appearance to the overall image.
Squint uses electromyography (EMG) data collected while squinting to generate form. The numerical EMG data was visualized in custom software that was written to repeat, rotate, and randomly colorize EMG waveforms. The computer-generated images “weave” the waveforms together in both directions—warp and weft. While the overall image has a geometric, unified, and even tidy form, upon close inspection one can see the chaotic structure of each end of each waveform that has been altered “by hand”. Using a vector-imaging program, the flat zero value at the beginning and end of each waveform has been teased out and reshaped to create a woven fabric-like appearance to the overall image.
…The exigent urgency of Laura Splan’s conceptual work always feels one step ahead of us, much the way technology, which she employs to execute and symbolically illuminate her concepts, exists long before it is grasped by the masses…
Project Support provided by ACRE Residency, SIM Residency
Fine Art Printing by Skink Ink
Exhibitions: Occurrence Gallery, Capsule Gallery, NYU Langone Medical Center Art Gallery, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Currents 826, ACRE Projects, New York Institute of Technology, Creative Tech Week
Collections: NYU Langone Art Collection, private collections
