June 17–26, 2022
Currents: Circuits New Media Festival 2022
Center For Contemporary Arts
Santa Fe, NM
Syndemic Sublime (Pangolin, Llama, SARS-CoV-2) was included in the 2022 Currents New Media Festival. Syndemic Sublime is a series of data-driven computer-generated animations created using COVID-19 data libraries and molecular visualization software. The animations intertwine molecular models of SARS-CoV-2 with both human and non-human protein structures such as antibodies and cell receptors. The generative movement is created using data from COVID deaths in the U.S. over the first 20 months of the pandemic to disrupt the 20 amino acid residues along the protein structures. The resulting disruptions create mesmerizing tableaus that are sometimes spastic and sometimes sublime.
Syndemic Sublime (Pangolin, Llama, SARS-CoV-2) was included in the 2022 Currents New Media Festival. Syndemic Sublime is a series of data-driven computer-generated animations created using COVID-19 data libraries and molecular visualization software. The animations intertwine molecular models of SARS-CoV-2 with both human and non-human protein structures such as antibodies and cell receptors. The generative movement is created using data from COVID deaths in the U.S. over the first 20 months of the pandemic to disrupt the 20 amino acid residues along the protein structures. The resulting disruptions create mesmerizing tableaus that are sometimes spastic and sometimes sublime.
Adrian Leverkuhn Light Touch
Alejandro Borsani La Isla de Vidrio (The Glass Island)
Andrea Polli The GLOW (Growing Life on Other Worlds) Pod
Andrew Frueh Kendrick + Gilbert
Anne Spalter Sky Ship
Ash Garwood Alter
Avital Meshi Face it!
Billie Mitchell Period of Revolution (.)
Brad Gallagher Rumpus Room For Dancers
Bun Stout One Fate Stupid
Carlisle / Hamilton Untitled
Cezar Mocan Arcadia Inc.
Colin Ives Garden in the Machine
Cyane Tornatzky Duets
Dante Biss-Grayson Digital Sprit Dancer
Davida Singer deluge rio grande + who’s the blue voice?
Emma Forgues Mesocosm + Pero sans Cimon
Emmett Palaima Modular Triptych: Great Wurm
Grace Grothaus Sun Eaters
Heather Warren-Crow Information + There is Something in Good Men That Really
Yearns for Discipline
Hedwige Jacobs Personal Space
Hope Strickland if I could name you myself (I would hold you forever)
Hsin-I LIN [ Khun-giân ] ：The Third Voice
Ian Gibbins The Life We Live Is Not Life Itself
Johan Fredrik Källman Luxtriplicata
Joseph Farbrook Higher Faster Stronger
Judy K Suh Impression, Seasons
Karl Munstedt Encryptid
Kenzie Housego An Artistic Exploration of Contemporary Online Courtship + Wearables
Kirsten Angerbauer Pink Noise, 23hz
Laura Splan Syndemic Sublime
Leonardo Madriz Letters to Home, Pt. 1
Luke Bern Carr Staircase
Lyra Mancini Mirror Mirror
Manolis Daris-Bécotte Primordial Dismemberment
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli Requiem – Between a Barrel and a Hearth
Margaret Thompson Brilliant Universe
Maryam Khaleghiyazdi Speaking Blanket
Masha Vlasova Her Type
Matthew Schoen Assemblages
Maximillian La Rocco Moving Pictures Gallery
Mollye Bendell Outgrown
Omar Lavalle CLOSE _ perspective #1
Owen Lowery Song of Slime
Pablo-Martín Córdoba Substance
Paula Gaetano Adi A Robocalyptic Manifesto: Techno-Politics for Liberation
Reilly Donoavan Machine Blooms
Ruben Olguin Acequia Madre
Ryan Robson Gypsum + Skipping Stones
Samuel St-aubin Prosperity II + The Spaghetti Machine
Sarah Pucill Eye XCut
Sarah Trad Clench My Fists
Sebastian Morales Cumulus
Seph Li 相/Phase
Seylon Stills Laki’s Birds
Shane Coffing Synchrony
Shomit Barua Degrees of Granularity
Susanne Dietz Gazes from Beyond the Grave
Theo Krantz Subliminal Excercise
Tirtza Even 2nd Person
Tivon Rice Models for Environmental Literacy
Tristen Ives Double Whammy
Yoon Chung Han Roads in You
Yoonjoo Lee Stick Bugged Speedrun
Young-min Choi Cloud Mirror + Chordal Distance
Zuyva Sevilla Xeros
...Laura Splan spent three months in 2020 collaborating with Integral Molecular scientists Dr. Benjamin Doranz and Dr. Edgar Davidson over Zoom to produce her series...created using Pymol to visualize intricate molecular models of SARS-CoV-2. Splan explains that “by using the specialized features of the software in unconventional ways, I unravel and distort the folded structure of the coronavirus spike protein. I playfully manipulate the folded forms...
...With the coronavirus outbreak, people worldwide have become preoccupied with a threat so physically small that it can’t be seen. The invisible world of viruses has long fascinated multi-media artist Laura Splan, who is artist in residence at a biotech lab...
