My experimental new media art explores technological translations of the natural world with animation, sound, and immersive sensory experiences. I incorporate cutting-edge techniques including 3D, AI, as well as data-driven movement and sound.
Laura Splan is multimedia artist and researcher working at the intersections of Science, Technology, and Culture. Her transdisciplinary practice reframes artifacts of the posthuman landscape to unravel entanglements of natural and built systems. Her internationally recognized artworks and exhibitions have been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, Musea Brugge (Bruges), Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pioneer Works (NYC), and The Nobel Prize Museum at Liljevalchs (Stockholm). Film and media art festivals featuring her work have included Currents (Santa Fe, NM), CLIMAX (Madrid), and Seoul International Short Film Festival where she was awarded Best Experimental Film in the special prize categories. Her work is represented in the collections of Thoma Art Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and has been commissioned by the CDC Museum in association with The Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC), the Vanderbilt Museum Planetarium (Centerport, NY), and Bruges Triennial. Her research has been supported by the Simons Foundation, NEW INC at the New Museum, Jerome Foundation, Knight Foundation, Electronic Arts, Harvestworks, and Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Reviews and articles including her work have appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Discover, designboom, and Frieze. She has been featured in artist profiles and interviews on Science Friday and Voice of America. Publications featuring her artwork include "Life Eternal" published by The Nobel Prize Museum. As a speaker and educator, she has been a National Endowment for the Arts Digital Arts Fellow and a lecturer as Stanford University. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Beall Center for Art + Technology for the 2024 Getty Pacific Standard Time exhibition Future Tense: Art, Complexity, & Predictability.
College
Mills College, Oakland, CA (US)
MFA
Birth City
Memphis, TN (US)
Current City
Brooklyn, NY (US)
Gender
Other
Eye Color
Other
Laura Splan lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, in a building that has been both a pharmaceutical factory and a knitting factory and is now an elaborate interactive installation for her cat.
“Don’t show the monster too much at the beginning.” —Roger Corman
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."—Maya Angelou
My experimental new media art explores technological translations of the natural world with animation, sound, and immersive sensory experiences. I incorporate cutting-edge techniques including 3D, AI, as well as data-driven movement and sound.
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