Laura Cinti is an artist working with biology. She is co-founder and co-director of C-LAB, an internationally recognised interdisciplinary art organisation and collective that generates and participates in both artistic and scientific forums.
C-LAB has been invited to range of international conferences, exhibitions and continues to contribute in publications to broker discussions on the intersections of art and science and is currently UK partner and curator of EU funded European Public Art Centre, a European-wide collaboration between organisations exhibiting public artworks focusing on art, science and society.
Laura has been involved in art projects, exhibitions and workshops with support from the European Commission, scientific institutes, pharmaceutics, councils, universities, cultural institutes, commercial partners and cultural producers.
Laura has a PhD from UCL (Slade School of Fine Art in interdisciplinary capacity with UCL Centre of Biomedical Imaging), a Masters in Interactive Media: Critical Theory & Practice (Distinction) from Goldsmiths College, University of London and BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class) from University of Hertfordshire.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Evaporation of Things (2013)
Inspace, Edinburgh, Scotland
Techfest (2012)
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
CABI Official Opening by Provost & President of UCL (2011)
UCL Centre of Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI), UCL, London, UK
PhD Viva Exhibition (2011)
Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, UK
(Un)Inhabitable? - Art of Extreme Environments (2009)
Festival @rt Outsiders 2009, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Transient Creatures (2008)
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2008, Hong Kong, China
Unsafe Distance (2007)
3rd International Festival for the Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Stone Bell House, Prague, Czech Republic
Bios 4. Arte Biotecnológico Y Ambiental (2007)
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
Dias De Bioart (2007)
Espacio de Consulta en Bioarte, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
Today In Paradise :: Genetics & Arts (2005)
Mobileart 05, Göteborg New Media Art Festival - Göteborg, Sweden
SELECTED TALKS & LECTURES
Mutamorphisis 2012, New Stage of the National Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic.
International Media Arts Conference IMAC 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Declined)
Subtle Technologies, Toronto, Canada
Guest Lecture (2011)
Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, UCL, London, UK
Digital Matter Research Forum, UCL Digital Excursion (2011)
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
Less Remote: Futures of Space Exploration (2008)
International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Glasgow, Scotland
Theorie cum Praxi (2008)
Workshop on the materiality of AV theory-practice in Fine Art PhD research, Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, UK
Telling Places: Narratives and Identity in Art & Architecture (2007)
The Slade Research Centre, London, UK
Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts & Sciences (2007)
International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT), Prague, Czech Republic
Biorama (2007)
Digital Research Unit, Huddersfield, UK
An Encounter with Biotechnological & Environmental Art (2007)
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
Guest Lecture (2006)
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Official Launch of the Arts & Genomic Centre (2005)
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Transgenic Art Forum (2005)
Edinburgh International Science Festival, Scotland
Göteborg New Media Art Festival Symposium (2005)
Valand School of Fine Arts, Göteborg, Sweden
Guest Lecture (2004)
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Guest Lecture (2002)
University of Hertfordshire, London, UK
SELECTED AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS
The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art and Plant Neurobiology
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2011, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, December 2011
The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants
Leonardo Thinks, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, October 2011
The Mexico Project - An Ecological Invasion
Oritur, Ivan Henriques, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten / Verbeke Gallery, 2011
The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art and Plant Neurobiology
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London), April 2011
The Martian Rose
Leonardo, Vol. 42, No. 2, April 2009
The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art and Plant Neurobiology
Sophia, Issue 2, February 2009
The Martian Rose
Multi: The RIT Journal of Plurality and Diversity in Design, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2008
The Martian Rose
Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, Conference Proceedings, CIANT, International Centre for Art and New Technologies, 2007
SELECTED INTERVIEWS
Ruže z Marsu (2007)
Ceska Televise Port TV (Interview for Czech Television)
Interview with Laura Cinti & Howard Boland (2007)
Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art (http://we-make-money-not-art.com)
Sztuka, jakiej nie znamy (2004)
Olga Sobolewska, Wiedza i Zycie, Warsaw, Poland
"Cactus Project", Een Transgeen Kunstwerk (2004)
Jan Vandorpe, Succulenta, Issue 04, Netherlands
Laura Cinti: Le monde entier est un cactus (2004)
Esther Quintero, Les Mutants, France
Art, but Not as we know it (2004)
New Scientist, UK
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
The Emigration
Martynas Gaubas
4 March 2012 – 4 May 2012
Bishop’s Square, Spitalfields, London, UK
Dreaming of a Butterfly
Antonio Caramelo4 November 2011 – 18 February 2012
Bishop’s Square, Spitalfields, London, UK
Synthetic Biology: Machine or Life?
20 October 2011
Dana Centre, Science Museum, London, UK
Bee Box
Anne Brodie
1 September – 1 November 2011
Bishop’s Square, Spitalfields, London, UK
Telling Places: Narrative and Identity in Art & Architecture
5-7 December 2007
Slade Research Centre, London, UK
SELECTED COURSES/WORKSHOPS
Invited Artist: Synthesis: Synthetic Biology in Art and Society (2011)
The Arts Catalyst, UCL, Synthetic Aesthetics & SymbioticA
6-day intensive exchange laboratory funded by Wellcome Trust Art Award
Optical Microscopy (2008)
Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL
Optical microscopy workshop in wet laboratory settings at research level
The Life of Plants (2008)
Second year undergraduate course module, Research Department of Genetics, Environment and Evolution, UCL
Systems Thinking (2008)
Department of Space & Climate Physics, UCL
Nominated & selected artist: Roche Continents (2007)
Roche and Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria
Week long workshop exploring common grounds of creativity and innovation in the arts and science funded by Roche
Introduction to Bacteriological Methods (2006)
Royal Free & University College Medical School, London, UK
Laboratory workshops engaging with recombinant practices at research level
Selected Artist: The Biotech Art Workshop (2005)
SymbioticA & The Arts Catalyst, Kings College, London, UK