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2026 Wie ein Palmfarn mit Drohnen und KI vor dem Aussterben gerettet werden soll Stefan Mey, Der Standard, 19 January
2026 Die einsamste Pflanze der Welt: E. woodii sucht eine Partnerinl Laura Evers, GEO, 12 February
2025 Meet The World’s ‘Loneliest’ Plant — Discovered In 1895 And Still Without A Partner Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 April
2025 Art and Technology Converge Through Nature, Immersion, and Speculation at SIGGRAPH 2025 SIGGRAPH
2025 How artists are using generative AI to celebrate the natural world Calypso Newman, The UK Creative Festival, 14 January
2025 Researchers Use AI to Find a Partner for the World’s Loneliest Plant and Save It From Extinction Tiyasa Biswas, Green Matters, 27 July
2025 Sky-High AI Gary Singh, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 45, no. 06, pp. 8-10, Nov-Dec
2025 Otherwise – Artiști și cercetări investighează împreună criza climatică în România Patricia Marinescu Centre, Curatorial, 24 June
2025 Encephalartos Woodii Sander Brendan Sayers, Michael Calonje, Siobhán Larkin, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 41(3), 425–428, 6 May
2025 Al via il Tree Art Festival: incontri, spettacoli e ospiti, ecco il programma Fabiana Dallavalle, Messaggero Veneto, 9 July
2025 Tracing Life From Above SIGGRAPH, 30 October
2024 Perpétuer une espèce à tout prix : cet arbre datant de l’époque des dinosaures va possiblement pouvoir se reproduire grâce à une IA Louise Guyonnet, Science-et-vie.com (France), 30 May
2024 The ‘World’s Loneliest Plant’ Could Soon Find a Mate With a Little Help From A.I. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine (USA), 25 July
2024 The World’s Loneliest Plant Is Looking For A Partner And AI Is Lending A Hand Holly Large, IFLScience (UK), 30 May
2024 Biennale Nova_XX, l’expo expérientielle qui imagine de nouveaux mondes Victoria Moreau Cortès, Fisheye Immersive (France) March
2024 La ricerca di una compagna per salvare E. woodii, la pianta più sola del pianeta Simone Valentine, WIRED (Italy), 24 June
2024 AI helping find 'world's loneliest plant' a partner BBC (UK), 29 May
♪ Audio 2024 Apple e l’accordo con Openai: nuova Siri in arrivo? Intelligenza Artificiale Spiegata Semplice, Podcast, 10 June
2024 La pianta più sola della Terra ha bisogno di una compagna: la stanno cercando con l'intelligenza artificiale Chiara Galletti, Corriere della Sera (Italy), 25 June
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant The Express & Star
2024 AI scant 10.000 hectare bos op zoek naar partner voor "eenzaamste plant ter wereld" Moonray Grunewald, VRT News (Belgium) 29 May
2024 AI Joins Hunt for ‘world’s Loneliest Plant’ Partner in South Africa AfricaLive Editor, 22 August
▶ Video 2024 ARTBOX LA7 Television Channel (Italy) May
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Yahoo News
2024 NOVA-XX Plurivers et Contingence au Centre Wallonie de Bruxelles, l’avis Transfuge Par Aude de Bourbon Parme, numéro 176 (France) March
2024 Single and Ready to Mingle: World’s Loneliest Plant Seeks Mate Andrew Marshall, ExplorersWeb, 31 May
2024 Saving Encephalartos Woodii: How AI And Drones Are Revolutionizing Plant Conservation Jamal El-Masri, Global Society World News (Germany/Spain), 29 August
2024 Buscan pareja a una planta solitaria anterior a los dinosaurios Europa Press (Spain), 29 May
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant The Comet
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Hampshire Chronicle
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant The Herald
2024 Rare cycad from a KZN forest is the only one left on the planet Nick Pawson, The South African, 04 June
2024 The high-tech hunt for a lonely plant’s partner University of Southampton, 28 May
2024 Ein Palmfarn ist die einsamste Pflanze der Welt. Wartet auf sie irgendwo in einem Urwald noch eine Partnerin? Martin Amrein, NZZ: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), 10 July
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant LBC
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Daily Echo
2024 How scientists are using AI to save world's loneliest plant Akash Pandey, NewsBytes (India), 22 July
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant MSN
2024 EXPOSED: Torino Foto Festival Arshake Channel (Italy) April
2024 Scientists Use Drones To Find Partner For Loneliest Plant in South Africa Kanishka Singharia, Times Now (India), 1 June
2024 An Ancient Plant’s Quest for Survival Lidia Perska, ELBLOG.PL (Poland), 9 June
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Ham & High
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Dorset Echo
2024 Usando IA, cientistas buscam companheira para a “planta mais solitária do mundo” Maria Clara Rossini, Superinteressante (Brazil), 8 June
2024 The Role of AI and Drones in Environmental Conservation Muhammad Osama, AZO Robotics, 3 June
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Belfast Telegraph
♪ Audio 2024 The Fun Kids Science Weekly Podcast. FunKids, Children’s Radio, UK, 5 June
2024 AI helping find ’world’s loneliest plant’ a partner The Financial Gazette
2024 Female partners could save them: Plants which outlasted dinosaurs may get extinct; scientists are trying to find a match Livemint, Mint (India), 14 June
2024 Kan någon hitta en partner åt världens ensammaste träd? Jörn Spolander, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), 1 December
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant The Standard
2024 World's loneliest tree species can't reproduce without a mate. So AI is looking for one hidden in the forests of South Africa Richard Pallardy, Live Science, 25 July
2024 World’s Loneliest Plant Needs a Mate to Grow Old With Tom Whipple, The Times, May
2024 Nature Briefing: Quote of the Day Nature Portfolio, Springer Nature (UK), 19 September
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant The Country Press
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Shropshire Star
2024 Mediante la IA, científicos buscan pareja a la planta más solitaria del mundo y tan antigua como los dinosaurios Facundo Macia Marquis, InfoBae (Argentina), 5 June
2024 Cercasi pianta femmina per pianta maschio in via di estinzione Ludovica Lugli, Il Post (Italy), 24 June
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Dailymail
2024 Scientists Use AI to Find a Mate for World's 'Lonely Tree' Thai PBS, (Thailand), 7 June
♪ Audio 2024 What's right: AI hopes to find a mate for world's loneliest plant ARA City Radio (Luxembourg), 30 May
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Jersey Evening Post
♪ Audio 2024 World Tonight BBC Radio 4, UK, 28 May
2024 'World's loneliest' plant needs a partner, and AI is on duty to find one Apoorna Sharma, 1 June
2024 AI is helping to find a female partner for the world's loneliest plant: 'Tale of unrequited love' Vidhya M. Scoop UP, 31 May
2024 E.Woodii, la pianta (maschio) più sola al mondo, cerca una partner: a trovarla sarà l’intelligenza artificiale POP Il giornale popolare (Italy), 1 July
2024 La plante "la plus solitaire du monde" va-t-elle enfin pouvoir se reproduire grâce à l'IA ? Matthieu Delacharlery, TF1 (France), 29 May
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Oxford Mail
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Local & National Coverage, UK, 28 May
2024 Searching for a female partner for the world’s ‘loneliest’ plant Daily Maverick, South Africa
2024 Partner pursuit The Daily Tribune
2024 Drones are scouring a South African forest for a very specific type of plant ETX Studio, 4 June
2024 AI Helps the Loneliest Plant in the World Find a Mate Himanshu Baweja, TechAcute.com (Germany), 26 June
2024 Hi-Tech Help for Lonely Plant Ian Hodgson, Garden News (UK), 22 June
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant The Northern Echo
▶ Video 2024 Wer Weiss Denn Sowas? Episode 1211, Das Erste (German TV), 5 December
2024 La Inteligencia Artificial busca pareja para la planta más solitaria del mundo Constanza Vacas, National Geographic (Spain), 6 June
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Ireland Live
2024 AI used in E woodii search Donna Williams, EuroWeekly News, 30 May
♪ Audio 2024 Ta samotna roślina pamięta czasy dinozaurów. Jedyny taki egzemplarz na świecie Alicja Bartosiak, Zet Radio (Poland), 19 July
2024 Ερευνητές αναζητούν «ταίρι» για το «πιο μοναχικό φυτό του κόσμου» Εύη Τσιριγωτάκη, EPT News (Greece), 29 May
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Times Series
2024 Weekly Tech News of May Last Week 2024 Outright Store
2024 University of southampton the high tech quest to find a lonely plants partner Ied Newsdesk
2024 Have I Got News for You Series 67: Episode 9, BBC, 31 May
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant Irish News
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant The Press
2024 AI Assists In Finding A Partner For The ‘World’s Loneliest Plant’ Asia One, 30 May
2024 How do plants communicate? From the Wood Wide Web to the risks of too much human (pre)judgement Stella Saladino, Mangrovia (Italy), 22 June
2024 Scientists Use AI in Race Against Extinction to Find ‘Loneliest Plant’s’ Last Mate: Discover How Much of the Forest They’ve Covered Rahul Somvanshi, Karmactive, 6 June
♪ Audio 2024 A lonely and ancient plant needs a female partner and researchers are using drones and AI to find it – podcast The Conversation (UK), 19 September
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant The Argus
2024 Laura Cinti: AI & Data Rock Badger (UK), 11 September
2024 World's Loneliest Plant Faces Extinction as it Can't Find a Soulmate. Here's How AI Can Reunite Them Somdatta Maity, The DailyNet (UK), 7 June
2024 El único ejemplar de una planta casi extinta al que los científicos le buscan pareja Redacción Ambiente, El Espectador (Colombia) 6 June
2024 Researchers turning to drones and AI to find a partner for critically endangered plant that predates Dinosaurs Aditya Madanapalle, News Nine (India), 11 June
2024 AI enlisted in the hunt for female partner for lonely ancient plant The Inverness Courier
2023 The Living Dead – How Drones and AI Could Help “The Loneliest Plant in the World” Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, 5 July
2023 Prix COAL 2023 : quand l’art contemporain s’engage pour l’écologie Baptiste Thomasset, Pioche!, 29 June
2023 Laura Cinti: C-Lab. On Bio Art, Living Materials, and a Search for One of the Most Endangered Organisms on Earth Maddie Rose Hill, Mater, 1 July
2023 PPDS Announces the Winners of the Inaugural ‘MUSE Digital Art Award’ at the World’s First ‘zero-Power’ Digital Art Exhibition in Milan Neil Trim, Business Info Magazine, November
2022 Wir könnten es noch schaffen Von Melanie Wagenhofer, Volksblatt
2022 Das sind die Highlights der Ausstellung "Studio(dys)topia" Sarah Püringer, Meinbezirk
2020 S’attarder en surface avec Michel Jeandin Marie-Laure Desjardins, Nouveaux matériaux
2020 Rehabilitating Bacteria: An Epistemological Art/Science Interface Jens Hauser, ‘Shifting Interfaces: An Anthology of Presence, Empathy, and Agency in 21st-Century Media Arts’, Hava Aldouby (ed), Leuven University Press, Belgium
2019 Aufwachsen im „Fake News“- Zeitalter Simon Hadler, ORF.at
2019 The Most Mysterious Plant “Cactus” Shim Jae-yul, The Science Times (Korea)
2019 Scientific Palette In Visual Expression Mr. Rakesh Kumar Chaudhary, Dr. Supriya Sanju,Dr. Shradhanvita Singh, Artistic Narration, Vol. X, No. 2, pp.90-95
2019 Living Mirror — Out of the Box Ars Electronica
2018 Bioart: Définition(S) Et Enjeux Éthiques. Essai Introductif Guillaume Bagnolini and Paolo Stellino, Philosophical Readings: XI pp. 1-5 (1)
2018 Desert And Sonic Ecosystems: Incorporating Environmental Factors Within Site-responsive Sonic Art Lauren Hayes and Julian Stein, Applied Sciences, 8 (1)
2018 Arte Transgenica. La Vita é il Medium Mario Savini, Pisa University Press, Italy
2018 Arte, tecnologia e scienza : le art industries e i nuovi paradigmi di produzione nella new media art contemporanea Marco Mancuso, Associazione Culturale Mimesis, January
2018 Synthetic Biology: A Very Short Introduction Jamie A. Davies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
2018 L'art Contemporain Dans Le Complexe Techno-scientifique Emmanuel Ferrand, Dans Marges, n° 26, p.75-87
2018 The Role of Art in Emotional-Moral Reflection on Risky and Controversial Technologies: the Case of BNCI Roeser, S., Alfano, V. & Nevejan, C, Ethic Theory Moral Prac 21, 275–289
2017 Transgenic Art: Creativity In The Era Of Genetic Engineering Mario Savini, Technoetic Arts, Volume 15, Number 2, p.163-169
2017 Art Takes on Ethics Nora Vaage, Furtherfield, May
2017 “Trust me, I’m an Artist” Explores the Ethics of Biotech in Amsterdam Clara Rodríguez Fernández, Labiotech Insider
2017 Trust Me I’m an Artist. Ethics surrounding art & science collaborations Regine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, June
2017 Roślina Jako Medium. Problematyka Ochrony Sztuki Współczesnej Z Elementami Roślinnymi Anna Kowalik,Sztuka i Dokumentacja, Issue 17, p.81-93
2017 Children of the Lesser Gods Alex Bates & Geoff Ma,Bluesci, Cambridge University Science Magazine, Michaelmas
2016 Creating Art With Genes And Bacteria Joseph Caputo, Elsevier Connect
2016 Une hélice "vivante" (A living propeller) Annick Bureaud, Trust Me, I'm an Artist - Journal de bord, Leonardo/Olats
2016 Boland and Cinti’s flask menagerie: Hair-growing cacti, Martian roses, and living mirrors Jacket2
2016 The Art Of Synthetic Bio Shanthu Shantharam, #Swarajua, Bengaluru, India
2016 Idea Searching for Design, How to Research and Develop Design Concepts David Bramston, YeLi, Bloomsbury Academic
2016 Art Stage Jakarta 2016 - Highlights, Part II Kin Tay, The Artling
2016 인간 본성의 환희 (Joy of Human Nature) 에디터 김이신 글 Lin Lin 진행 Susie Su, Noblesse, 15 December
2016 Hacia Una Caracterización De Las Prácticas Artístico-científicas Actuales Relacionadas Con La Vida Sintética Esther Moñivas, Isegoría, (55), 665-682
2015 [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies: Art and the Biological Sublime in the 21st Century Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz, Berlin
2015 Bioart Yetisen et al, Trends in Biotechnology, Cell Press
2015 La Transgénesis Bajo Una Perspectiva Artística Torres Fernández, J.,Barcelona, Research, Art, Creation, 3(2), 100-121
2015 Ingeborg Reichle, Synthetische Biologie und biologisches Design in Kunst und Wissenschaft Sonja Kießling, Heike Catherina Mertens (eds.), Evolution in Menschenhand? Synthetische Biologie aus Labor und Atelier, Freiburg Verlag Herder
2015 Science and Culture: The art of designing life Amber Dance, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS
2014 The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants Amber Stucke, The Learned Pig, 25 June
2014 L’art Contemporain Au Prisme Des Biotechnologies Catherine Voison, Amnis, 13
2014 Not Invented by Nature: The Absent Laboratory Alexandra Waligorski, Another Future
2013 Alive: New Design Frontiers Xie Hong, Art and Design, Vol. 164, China
2013 'Living Mirror': Bacteria as human portrait (pictures) Leslie Katz, CNET
2013 (K)eine Erfindung der Natur: Internationale Künstlergruppe thematisiert die Synthetische Biologie in vier Kunstprojekten German Cancer Research Center - DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
2013 Laura Cinti & Howard Boland Highlike
2013 The Living Mirror Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art (http://we-make-money-not-art.com)
2013 The Future of Science-Art Collaborations Suzanne Anker, SciArt in America
2013 Grow Your Own: where scientists and artists are shaking up creation Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian
2013 Your Portrait, Made From Pulsating Bacteria Leslie Katz, CNET
2013 Novel Artistic Expression Through Biotechnology Lucia Lu, The Triple Helix Online
2013 Levende kunstwerken in Leiden De Volkskrant, The Netherlands
▶ Video 2013 Martian Rose at Microwave Festival 2013 TVB Pearl News, Hong Kong, China
2013 Interview with C-LAB Metropop, Issue 381, 21 November
2013 The Martian Rose - Microwave Festival Art News, Arts Promotion News Network, Hong Kong, China
2013 Precarious Design Donna Leishman, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol 19, No 4
2013 Ausstellung: "not invented by nature" Universität Heidelberg
2013 Revealing the Sensorial World of Plants Dissertation Reviews, Tanja Gesell and Marco Sealey, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria
2012 #A.I.L - Artists in Laboratories, Episode 3 Régine Debatty (We Make Money Not Art), Resonance 104.4 FM, UK
2012 Assembling an Aesthetic Emily Candela, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, Volume 17, Issue 3, USA
2009 Met Huid en Haar Louis Van Den Hengel, Abg #76, Amsterdam University Press, Netherlands
▶ Video 2008 Ruže z Marsu Ceska Televise Port TV (Interview for Czech Television),18 June
2007 Interview with Laura Cinti & Howard Boland Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, 12 April
2007 A Rose on Mars Is Still a Rose Wired Science, USA, 24 July
2007 Eurêka, L'Art Transgénique la Science au Service de L'Art Scientific News Program, Aired on Vox Channel, Québec, Canada
2007 Die Kac Storie Insig Magazine, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Containing ET Astrobiology Magazine, 28 May
2007 ¿Pueden Los Gatos Electronicos Sonar Con Peces De Colores? Catano Quinta, La Fresa, Contemporary Art Magazine, Malaga, Spain
2006 HSBC yourpointofview.com Communication Arts, Interactive Annual
2006 Believe It or Not, Fake Biotech Firm Is Key Marketing Ploy for Crichton Novel J. Trachtenberg & B. Steinberg, the Wall Street Journal, New York, USA
2006 Featured Artist Boog City Newspaper, Issue 32, New York, USA
2006 Een broeierige flirtage – genomics en de artistieke verbeelding Martijntje Smits, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Bio-ethie, Jaargang 13, nr. 1, The Netherlands
2005 The Artists in the Hazmat Suits New York Times, New York, USA
2005 Konsten Skjuter in Sig Pågenkritik Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
2005 Vems Paradis Talar Vi Om? Goteborgsposten, Sweden
2005 Bioart – Nghe Thuat Moi Hay Chung Hoang Tuong? Nhan Dan Newspaper, Vietnam
2005 Smile, You’re at the Science Festival The Scotsman, Scotland
2005 Cactus Is Real Hair Raiser at Science Festival Edinburgh Evening News, Scotland
2005 Au Poil Courrier International, Paris, France
2005 Grow Your Own Wings Bizarre Magazine, London, UK
2004 Sztuka, Jakiej Nie Znamy Olga Sobolewska, Wiedza i Zycie (Knowledge and Life), Warsaw, Poland, p. 42-45, August
2004 Wildnis Christoph Kuffer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
2004 Laura Cinti: Le Monde Entier Est Un Cactus Esther Quintero, Les Mutants, France
2004 Hot Sites - The Cactus Project: Genetoy USA Today, Mclean, USA
2004 Art, But Not as We Know It New Scientist, UK, p.44 - 47, 28 February
2004 Hot Sites USA Today, 1st March
2004 "Cactus Project", Een Transgeen Kunstwerk - Een Interview Met Laura Cinti Jan Vandorpe, Succulenta, Issue 04, The Netherlands, p. 174-176, June
2003 Van oerkip tot stralend konijn Merlijn Schoonenboom, de Volkskrant, The Netherlands