Denatured

animations created with screen recordings of software performances using molecular visualization software
Artwork

Denatured

2020
HD screen recordings of generative animations created during software performances with molecular visualization software (PyMOL)
grayscale video, no sound
display dimensions variable
Denatured #1 TRT: 12 minutes, 52 seconds

Denatured is a series of animations created using molecular visualization software as an performative tool. Models of folded proteins are unraveled with molecular “sculpting” tools with the mouse cursor hidden during screen-recorded software performances. Denatured #1 untangles proteins including a portion of the spike protein found on the surface of the coronavirus and a llama antibody.

Denatured is a series of animations created using molecular visualization software as an performative tool. Models of folded proteins are unraveled with molecular “sculpting” tools with the mouse cursor hidden during screen-recorded software performances. Denatured #1 untangles proteins including a portion of the spike protein found on the surface of the coronavirus and a llama antibody.

...Interdisciplinarity is the foundation on which artist Laura Splan conceives her work...Through her practice, science is moved out of the laboratories while keeping its axioms and experiments present...A number of its mechanisms are paralleled with the cultural dynamics that inhabit our everyday lives, putting a magnifying glass on the interconnections that exist between diverse fields of knowledge...

CLOT
Giulia Ottavia Frattini

…While the complex, and often alienating science behind the pandemic has inundated the globe over the past year, artist laura splan dove into the study of virus structures to explore the interconnectedness between cultural and biological systems…

Designboom
Nina Azzarello

...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...

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