sensory artworks & experiences exploring biological and cultural entanglements across magnitudes of space and time
2026 LUMEN PRIZE FINALIST—immersive interactive installation exploring social and biological interconnectedness through emergent visitor behavior
multimedia performance screening exploring the "ambient labor" of instrumentalized bodies through speculations on computational futures
"Cryptic Lineages" Performance Screening at Museum of the Moving Image
AI-generated video and sound exploring how cultural constructions of the "natural" and the "individual" are shaped by the computational
ON VIEW (IL, US)—3D animations created with molecular visualization software and models of viral proteins
AT THE NEW MUSEUM: artist book with meditative text and kaleidoscopic images exploring epigenetic connections across micro and macro scales
"A Guided Sublimation: Portals" in the New Museum Store (NYC)
robotically carved marble sculpture exploring molecular "microdramas" among fungal worlds and built environments
immersive planetarium experience with molecular animations, spatial sound, scent, and custom star projections exploring magnitudes of interconnectedness
"A Guided Sublimation" at Vanderbilt Museum Planetarium
woven molecular visualizations exploring the "tactical tactile" through intuitive material engagement with complexity
"Tangible Variations"
immersive installation with molecular animations and soundscape exploring remote intimacies
"Unraveling" at BioBAT Art Space
fan networked to wind data at vivarium housing animals who produce pharmaceutical products exploring embodiment
"Remote Entanglements"
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
"Regardless of her medium of choice, Laura Splan succeeds in translating complex scientific concepts into sensory experiences."
Till-Holger Borchert in "TraumA: Triënnale Brugge" Exhibition Catalog
Publications
RECENT PRESS
"Splan's work insists that the complexity of the biological world can be felt and experienced, even before it is fully understood."
Danielle Ezzo in "Ill Angles Only"
Press
EVENTS: SPEAKING & WORKSHOPS
Museum of the Moving Image, Onassis ONX, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Simons Foundation
COMMISSIONS
custom artworks for public events & private collections across art, science, and technology arenas
Commissions
RESEARCH-BASED COLLABORATIONS
transdisciplinary collaborations with scientists and technologists across industry and academia
RECENT ACQUISTIONS
individual and institutional acquisitions for private and public collections including sculptures, prints, weavings, and animations
