Howard Boland is a practicing artist based in London working with new spaces for life. His research focuses on language and narrative processes within the contemporary intersection of art and science. He is a co-founder and artistic director of c-lab. Taught and worked extensively with award winning interactive productions for clients such as HSBC, Vodafone, Sony, V&A and Microsoft. Currently, he is Head of Interactive Technologies at RMG Connect. He has backgrounds in Mathematics, Software Systems for the Arts & Media and Digital Practices.

Selected Exhibitions/Conferences:

Unsafe Distance 3rd International Festival for the Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Stone Bell House, Prague, Czech Republic

Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts & Sciences  CIANT – International Centre for Art and New Technologies, Prague, Czech Republic

Biorama Digital Research Unit, Huddersfield, UK

Bios 4. Arte Biotecnológico Y Ambiental Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain

Dias De Bioart Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain

Arts & Genomic Centre Launch Arts and Genomic Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Transgenic Art Forum Edinburgh International Science Festival, Scotland

Today In Paradise :: Genetics & Arts Mobileart 05, Göteborg New Media Art Festival - Göteborg, Sweden.

 
Selected Publications:

A Rose on Mars Is Still a Rose Wired Science, 24 July 2007

Containing ET Astrobiology Magazine, 28 May 2007

Bio-Art Mutagènes, 20 April 2007

Eurêka :: L'art transgénique / la science au service de l'art Scientific News Program aired on Vox Channel, Québec, Canada

Believe It or Not, Fake Biotech Firm Is Key Marketing Ploy for Crichton Novel J. Trachtenberg & B. Steinberg, The Wall Street Journal, 16 November 2006

Kunst Verbeeldt Genomics Dr.ir. Martijntje Smits, GENOMICS, 2005, Netherlands.

The Artists in the Hazmat Suits? The New York Times, 3 July 2005, USA.

Smile, you’re at the Science Festival The Scotsman, 18th February 2005, Scotland

Cactus is real hair raiser at Science Festival Edinburgh Evening News, 17th February 2005, Scotland.

Hot Sites USA Today, 1st March 2004, USA.

Selected Interviews

Interview with Laura Cinti & Howard Boland (c-lab) We Make Money Not Art, 12 April 2007

Laura Cinti - The Cactus Project Les Mutants, France.

Art, But not as we know it New Scientist, 28th February 2004, UK, pp. 44.

Selected Books

Ethics on the Visual Arts Gail Levin, Elaine A. King, Allworth Press, pp. 203/4

Next Michael Crichton, Harper Collins Publishers, London, UK, 2006. pp. 165

Det Menneskelige Eksperiment Gert Balling & Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Copenhagen University, 2006. pp. 234, 244.

Verbeelding van Wetenschap : Images of Science Drs. L. Hanssen, Deining Maatschappelijke Communicatie, Netherlands, pp.26.