Laura Splan

Laura Splan’s videos serve as mesmerizing meditations on increasing entanglements between natural and constructed worlds and the “new normal” emerging as a result. Using specialized features of molecular visualization software in unconventional ways, she animates coronavirus spike proteins by unraveling and morphing folded and unfolded forms. The colors are chosen based on names in the software that are evocative of idyllic representations of nature: blue skies, green forests, ripe fruit and romantic flowers. The animations were developed in remote collaboration with biotech scientists while “sheltering in place” for COVID-19. Discover her projections in unexpected places by following their location: laurasplan.com/aiop.