Laura Splan is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of Science, Technology, and Culture. Her research-based studio practice and collaborations with scientists culminate in multimedia exhibitions that reframe artifacts of the posthuman landscape to unravel entanglements of natural and built systems. Splan has been honored with awards and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, Harvestworks Digital Art Center, Coalesce Center for Biological Arts, and Japan International Film Festival, among other institutions, and has exhibited in over 50 national and international shows.

Splan’s Black Box Residency project, Baroque Bodies (Sway), uses emerging epigenetic research on environmental influences on gene expression along with computational and digital technologies to connect micro and macro worlds. Splan’s project is being developed in collaboration with UCI epidemiologist Hannah Lui Park, creative technologist Danielle McPhatter of the EY Metaverse Lab, and theoretical biophysicist Adam Lamson of the Flatiron Institute.  

Laura Splan in her studio. Photo courtesy of the Simons Foundation Science, Society & Culture Division.