Laura Splan's interdisciplinary workshops and studio practice advising unpack intersections of art, science, and technology through individual and group engagement. She addresses critical and topical themes through companion programming, including participatory learning covering laboratory techniques, specialized software, and textiles methods that she uses in her own studio practice.
As an educator, Splan has held academic appointments at Stanford University, teaching interdepartmental Art courses to Engineering, Computer Science, Biology, Math, as well as Art majors. As an artist-in-residence, she has taught academic seminars at the University of Maine and Illinois State University. Her public workshops have been hosted by the Fredrickson Family Innovation Lab, Tang Teaching Museum, and Coalesce Center for Biological Arts. Splan was a Digital Arts Fellow supported by the National Endowment for the Arts at AS220 Industries, where she taught creative coding and physical computing workshops. She has been a studio practice advisor for both independent artists and students at San Francisco Art Institute, California College of Art, and Arts Council England. Splan is currently a mentor at NEW INC, where she advises interdisciplinary practitioners working at the intersections of Art, Science, and Technology.
2024–NOW Hunter College, Film & Media Studies, New York, NY, Fall 2024/Spring 2025/Summer 2025/Fall 2025 Course: Web Production I: Exploring Biological Paradigms of Interconnectedness on the Internet
2022 Hunter College, Integrated Media Arts Program, City University of New York, New York, NY, Spring Intensive: Data Bodies–Procedural Aesthetics and the Computational Imagination
2018 Stanford University, Art & Art History Department, Palo Alto, CA, Fall Course: Data as Material
2018 Stanford University, Art & Art History Department, Palo Alto, CA, Fall Course: Embodied Interfaces
2016 University of Maine, Department of New Media, Orono, ME, Fall Course: Art & Biology
2015 Illinois State University, College of Fine Arts, Normal, IL, Fall Course: Art & Biology
2013 SUNY Purchase College, Department of Art & Design, Purchase, NY, Winter Course: Design for the Web
2013 Marymount Manhattan College, Department of Art, New York, NY, Spring Course: Digital Imaging
2011 Stanford University, Art & Art History Department, Palo Alto, CA, Spring Course: Art & Biology
2011 Stanford University, Art & Art History Department, Palo Alto, CA, Spring Course: Digital Art
2005 Mills College, Intermedia Arts Department, Oakland, CA, Spring Course: Electronic Arts
2009 Northgate High School, Walnut Creek, CA (Senior Art Project Mentor)
2007–08 San Francisco Art Institute, School of Studio Practice, Low Residency MFA Program, San Francisco, CA (Instructor for Independent Study)
2005–04 California College of Art, Fine Arts Department, MFA Program, San Francisco, CA (Studio Practice Instructor)
2025 Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY
Cryptic Lineages: Digital Encounters with the Biological World Through AI Video & 3D Animation)
2024 POWRPLNT, Brooklyn, NY
Creating Art Publications & Zines
2023 Genspace Community Bio Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Sticky Settings: Molecular Worldbuilding in Blender with artist Laura Splan
2022 Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Spinning Down: A Yarn Workshop with Laura Splan
2021 Fredrickson Family Innovation Lab in partnership with Quick Center for the Arts, in collaboration w/Dr. D. Fried
Tickling the Bonds: Creative Engagement with Molecular Visualization Tools
2021 Museum of Arts & Design, Presented by CAA ARTexchange, New York, NY
Precarious Structures: Collaborative Unraveling & Weaving Project
2020 Coalesce Center for Biological Arts, University at Buffalo, NY
Transgressing Boundaries: Bacterial Transformation and Bioart
2019 AS220 Industries, Providence, RI, NEA Digital Arts Fellowship Supported by National Endowment for the Arts
Reimagining Craft Through Code: Intro to Processing
Sensors and Interactive Circuits: Intro to Arduino
2018 ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI
3D Scanning
2012–2013 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
Various Digital Media Workshops for Web, Imaging, and Video
2012 Morbid Anatomy Library's Observatory, Brooklyn, NY
Dissection as Studio Practice
2009 Shakerag Workshops, St. Andrew's-Sewanee School Summer Studio Intensives, Sewanee, TN
From Pixel to Print: Digital Imaging and Inkjet Printing
2002 Center for Electronic Arts, San Francisco, CA
Digital, Web, Video, Graphic, Animation Workshops
1996–2012 BAVC Media, Staff Instructor, Education Department, San Francisco, CA
Digital, Web, Video, Graphic, Animation Workshops
MediaLink & YouthLink Programs
1996–2025 Plexus Creative, Creative Technology Workshops & Consulting, Online & Brooklyn, NY
Clients: independent artists, academic institutions, museums, galleries, non-profit organizations.
2017–NOW Plexus Projects Artist Residency, Online/Brooklyn, NY (Studio Practice & Project Development Advisor)
2025 NEW INC, New Museum, New York, NY (Cultural Incubator Mentor)
2025 City College of New York, New York, NY (Thesis Committee Member for MFA candidate Maud Acheampong)
2024 Residency Unlimited Guest Visitor Program, Brooklyn, NY (Studio Visits & Studio Practice Critique)
2024 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Lien Truong's Graduate Teaching Practicum (Professional Practices Workshop / Studio Visits)
2023 NEW INC Extended Realities (XR) Incubator, New Museum, New York, NY (Professional Practices Presenter & Discussant)
2022 NEW INC, New Museum, New York, NY (Cultural Incubator Mentor)
2023 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Lien Truong's MFA Teaching Practicum (Professional Practices Workshop / Studio Visits with Graduate Students)
2021 Austin Peay State University, Department of Art + Design, Senior Thesis Projects w/Professor Evie Woltil Richner (Visiting Artist Q&A)
2021 The Crit Lab, New York, NY (Visiting Artist & Critic)
2021 Arts Council England, Advisor for DYCP Awardee (Private Studio Practice Advising)
2021 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Professor Lien Truong's Graduate Teaching Practicum (Professional Practices Workshop / Studio Visits)
2020 University of Connecticut, Art & Art History Department, Online (Studio Visits with Graduate Students)
2011 Stanford University, Department of Art & Art History, Palo Alto, CA, Professor Gail Wight’s Professional Art Practices Graduate Seminar (Visiting Artist/Discussant)
2023 LUCA School of the Arts, Brussels, BE, Studio Visit & Artist Talk (Studio)
2017 Alfred University, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, Interactive Media Studio w/Professor Barbara Lattanzi (Institute for Electronic Arts studio)
2016 University of Georgia, School of Art, Interim Semester Seminar w/Professor Marni Shindelman (Studio)
2016 University of North Texas, Studio Art Department, New Media Art w/Professor Liss LaFleur (Studio)
2010 San Francisco State University, Art Department, Graduate Seminar, Professor Lewis deSoto (Studio)
