The National Arts Club will present Sticky Settings: Laura Splan x Adam Lamson as part of their Art and Tech event series. In collaboration with the Simons Foundation, artist Laura Splan and theoretical biophysicist Adam Lamson will discuss their expansive interdisciplinary collaboration traversing art, science and technology with animations, sound, textiles, and immersive full dome experiences.
January 23, 2024 at 7:00 PMFree, registration required
Our interdisciplinary collaboration explores digital and computational translations of the biological world. We use mistranslation, glitch, interpolation, and noise to playfully interrogate how technology shapes our understanding of nature. — Laura Splan
ABOUT THE PRESENTERSLaura Splan is a Brooklyn-based artist whose interdisciplinary projects examine entanglements of natural and built systems. Her internationally recognized artworks and exhibitions have been presented at the Bruges Triennial, Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), Brooklyn Museum, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona), and The Nobel Prize Museum at Liljevalchs (Stockholm). Adam Lamson, Ph.D. is a Science Collaborator and theoretical biophysicist at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Biology, a division of the Simons Foundation in New York City. As a Flatiron Research Fellow, Lamson studies the self-organization of biofilament networks through computational means. His research has been published in The European Physical Journal, Biophysical Journal, eLife, Science Advances, and Nature Communications.
ABOUT THE COLLABORATIONSticky Settings is the overarching title for Laura Splan and Adam Lamson’s sciart collaboration supported by the Simons Foundation, which includes animations, soundscapes, and weavings. The phrase “sticky settings” is borrowed from a computer software context, which refers to user-selected settings that a program “remembers” for subsequent sessions. Lamson and Splan found this usage analogous to those used in epigenetics research to describe DNA “bookmarking” – how genes can toggle on or off, and potentially “stick” with their state to be inherited by offspring.
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