Featured Events

Past Events

Exhibitions

2024 Onassis ONX, Presented by NEW INC+EY Metaverse Lab, New York, NY, Metafrictions Preview

2023 Vanderbilt Museum Planetarium, Curator: Paul Rubery, Centerport, NY, A Guided Sublimation

‍2025 NEW INC, New York, NY, Curator: Dr. Talia Mota, Science Fair

2024 Getty’s PST Art & Science Collide Initiative at Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, CA, Curator: David Familian/Curatorial Assistant: Gabriel H Tolson, Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty

2024 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, Biodesign Summit‍

2024 Rainbow Oasiiis x Superblue, Miami, FL, Chroma Art Film Festival

‍‍2024 Science New Wave Lab, Brooklyn, NY, Blackbox Field Notes

2024 Big Apple Film Festival, New York, NY

2024 CLIMAX Festival, Madrid, ES, Curator: Raúl Asensio Díez

2024 Paris Awards Film Festival, Paris, FR

2024 New York Tri-State International Film Festival, Artistic Director: Armin Ebrahimi, NY

2023 Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Curator: Rebecca Trawick, Seeing the Unseen: Science + Art

Awards

2024 Best New Media Art Award, Chroma ArtFilm Festival, Presented by Rainbow Oasiiis x Superblue, Miami, FL

‍2024 Best Animation Award, Venice Under theStars International Film Festival, Venice, IT

2024 Best Animation Award, Munich New WaveShort Film Festival, Munich, DE

2024 Best Animation Award, JapanInternational Film Festival, Tokyo, JP

2024 Best Experimental Film Award, JapanInternational Film Festival, Tokyo, JP

‍2024 Best Animation Award, TokyoInternational Short Film Festival, Tokyo, JP

‍2024 Best Art Film Award, Miami Film CriticAward, Miami, FL

2024 Best Female Director Award, TorontoIndie Filmmakers Festival, Toronto, ON

2023 Best Experimental Film Award, SeoulInternational Short Film Festival, Special Prizes Category, Seoul, KR

 

Publications

2023 FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science andTechnology, Edited by Marta de Menezes and Dalila Honorato, Published byCultivamos Cultura

2023 Seeing the Unseen: Science and Art,Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, J. Eisberg/R. Ikeda/M. Padilla/R. Trawick

 

Essays

2024 Splan, Laura. "GUI/GOOEY: Re-examining technological translations of the biological world". Cambridge Open Engage. Sep 3, 2024

Press

2024 OC ART BLOG, "The Dis-Ease In The Machine", by Chris Hoff, Aug 28, 2024

2024 HOLO, "Future Tense: Art, Complexity and Uncertainty—In Conversation with Artist Laura Splan", by David Familian, Aug 24, 2024

‍2024 Design Decode, "From Molecular Mysteries to Artistic Revelations: How Interdisciplinary Collaborations Illuminate the Hidden Wonders of Science and Art", by Michela Ventin, Sep 18, 2024

‍2024 CONNECT Magazine, "Complexity in Focus", by Christine Byrd, Aug 24, 2024

2024 Stir Pad, "Biodesign Challenge Summit 2024 honours young biodesigners across 12 categories", Aug 4, 2024

2024 RTVE, "PST ART: Art and science collide in a journey through technological evolution through art", By Ruth Cantarero, Jun 12, 2024

‍2024 HOLO, "Missives from the Future (Tense)", by Claire L. Evans, Apr 25, 2024

‍2023 MovieMaker Magazine, "CLIMAX 2024 Announces Film Festival Lineup", Dec 4, 2023

‍2023 On Goingness, “Laura Splan: On Art, Science, and Sticky Settings”, Podcast interview by Jenny Morris, Jul 21, 2023

2023 BOMB, “The Gooeyness of the Biological World: Art at the intersections of science, technology, and culture”, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Jan 18, 2023

2022 Science Friday, “A DNA Map You Can Touch—Or Walk Through”, Executive Producer/Host: Ira Flatow and Producer/Host: Christie Taylor, Dec 23, 2022

Video Profiles

2024 Getty PST Art & Science Collide: Future Tense, Produced by the Beall Center for Art+Technology, Irvine, CA

2023 Sticky Settings: Laura Splan x Adam Lamson, Produced by the Simons Foundation, New York, NY

 

Speaking & Panels

‍2024 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

2024 University of California Irvine, Art, Design, and Electronic Culture, Future Tense Lecture Series

2024 Getty’s PST Art & Science Collide Initiative at Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, CA, Moderators: David Familian/Jeff Barrett, Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty (Artist panel with Ralf Baecker, Lucy Solomon, Chico MacMurtrie, Laura Splan, Hege Tapio)

2024 LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous), Curators: Ellen K. Levy & Patricia Olynyk, New York, NY

‍2024 The Hmm at Extrapool, Nijmegen, NL (Artist Talk: Laura Splan on Digital Worlds & Internet Culture) *

‍2024 North American Cultural Laboratory, Transforma Theatre, Curator: Tjasa Ferme (Speaker/Panelist—AI Hallucinations Symposium: Laura Splan, Heidi Boisvert, Maud Acheampong ...)

‍2024 Onassis ONX, New York, NY (Panelist: Laura Splan & Eva Davidova in conversation with EY Metaverse Lab's Domhnaill Hernon & Danielle McPhatter)

2024 The National Arts Club, New York, NY (Featured Speaker—Sticky Settings: Laura Splan × Adam Lamson)

2023 University of Cincinnati School of Art, Cincinnati, OH (Lecture & Studio Visits—Visiting Artist & Scholar Series: "Experiments in Glitch") *

2023 Vanderbilt Museum Planetarium, Centerport, NY (Featured Artist/Speaker—A Guided Sublimation: Laura Splan & Adam Lamson in conversation with Curator Paul Rubery and Media Theorist Brooke Belisle)

2023 Simons Foundation Triangle Retreat, Callicoon Hills, NY (Featured Speaker—Sticky Settings: Laura Splan & Adam Lamson)

2023 Taos Center For The Arts, Taos, NM, FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology (Artist Talk—Sticky Settings: Ambient Portals in the Genetic Landscape)

2023 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Biodesign Challenge Summit (Visiting Critic/Panel Judge)

2023 Getty PST ART Symposium, Beall Center for Art+Technology, University of California, Irvine, CA (Artist Talk/Roundtable Participant—Future Tense: Art, Complexity and Predictability) *

2023 Harvestworks Technology Immersion Program, New York, NY, Curator: Carol Parkinson (Artist Talk—Research-Based Studio Practice)

2023 Royal Institute of Art, Department of Digital Media and Photography, Stockholm, SE, Åsa Andersson Broms’ Post Graduate Course: “Materialities; energies”, Royal Institute of Art (Artist Talk—Material Expressions: Subjectivity and Substance)

2022 Simons Foundation, SF Presents, Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium, New York, NY, Moderated by Salome Asega (Featured Speaker—The Sticky Space Between Art & Science: In Conversation with Adam Lamson & Laura Splan)

 

Workshops

2023 Genspace Community Bio Lab, Brooklyn, NY (Workshop—Sticky Settings: Molecular Worldbuilding in Blender with artist Laura Splan)

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