Her work has been widely covered in major media outlets, including
The Times,
BBC,
The Independent,
National Geographic,
Smithsonian Magazine,
Wired,
CNET,
Dagens Nyheter,
BBC’s Have I Got News for You,
Euro Weekly, and
Corriere della Sera. Her work has also been featured in academic and literary publications, including
Next (Michael Crichton),
Cactus (Dan Torre),
Arte Transgenica. La Vita È Il Medium (Mario Savini), and
Sculpture Now (Anna Moszynska).
She has held research and residency positions in the UK and Europe, including as a Research Fellow at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Artist in Residence at the Otherwise Residency, an art-science programme developed in collaboration with the Bucharest Institute of Biology and curated by Asociația Culturală Marginal in Romania. She is recipient of multiple awards, including the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery 2025 Best in Show Award, NOVA_XX Award, MUSE Digital Art Award, Roots & Seeds Award, and Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award.
She holds a PhD from UCL's Slade School of Fine Art, where she worked with University College London’s Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging. She received an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory & Practice (Distinction) from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (First Class Honours) from the University of Hertfordshire.
Water as a Site for TransformationIstorik Gallery, Valencia, Spain, 2026
Of the Earth: Earthly Technologies to Computational BiologiesDiriyah Art Futures, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2026
Soft ThresholdsAtelier030202, Bucharest, Romania, 2025
Coining Utopias: Taboo - Transgression - TranscendenceKino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2025
Connecting Nature, Art, and Technology, SIGGRAPH 2025, Art Gallery, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada, 2025
(Get) In TouchIstanbul Digital Arts Festival x Ars Electronica, Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey, 2025
H for HybridWizard Lab, Milan, Italy, 2025
Istanbul Digital Art Festival - Paris PreviewThe Azerbaijan Cultural Centre, Paris, France, 2025
AI Arts FestivalThe Arc, Winchester, 2024
A View From AboveEXPOSED: Torino Foto Festival, OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino, Italy, 2024
Biennale Nova_XX 2024: Plurivers & ContingenceCentre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, France, 2024
Sans ReserveMusée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France, 2023
Muse: The Energy for TomorrowMuseo Nazionale d'Arte Digitale, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy, 2023
COAL: Plant!Laboratoire Espace Cerveau, Paris, France, 2023
Studio(Dys)topia – At the Peak of HumankindArs Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2022
Out of the BoxWiyu Wahono Collection, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2019
GlobaleZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2015-2016
Plants, Machines, Animals, and Objects!ACRE TV, aired 29-30 June 2015, Chicago, US, 2015
Just 40Cultivamos Cultura, Odemira, Portugal, 2015
Eén Grote FamilieAlden Biesen Kasteel, Bilzen, Belgium, 2015
Plants, Machines, Animals & ObjectsSector 2337, Chicago, USA, 2015
Science Art SocietyMAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy, 2014
Sense NonsenseVan Abbemuseum, Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2014
Beyond Biennale: Reality ShiftDiscovery Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2014
ALT_CPH 14, AssembleThe Factory for Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2014
Floraxfauna(Wo)Manorial, Dallas, Texas, USA, 2014
Age of WonderNatlab, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2014
Terra 0Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China, 2013
DA4GANaturalis Biodiversity Center, Raamsteeg 2, Leiden, Netherlands, 2013
En Vie/AliveEspace Fondation EDF, Paris, France, 2013
Evaporation of ThingsInspace, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013
TechfestIIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2012
CABI Official Opening by Provost & President of UCLUCL Centre of Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI), UCL, London, UK, 2011
The Sensorial Invisibility of PlantsSlade Research Centre, Woburn Studios, UCL, London, UK, 2011
(Un)Inhabitable? - Art of Extreme EnvironmentsFestival @rt Outsiders 2009, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, 2009
Transient CreaturesMicrowave International New Media Arts Festival 2008, Hong Kong, China, 2008
Unsafe Distance3rd International Festival for the Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Stone Bell House, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007
BIOS 4. Arte Biotecnológico Y AmbientalCentro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2007
Dias De BioartEspacio de Consulta en Bioarte, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, 2007
Today In Paradise :: Genetics & ArtsMobileart 05, Göteborg New Media Art Festival - Göteborg, Sweden, 2005
Biodiversity Conservation, Nature restoration and De-extinctionInvited Speaker, Palazzo Chiaromonte, Complesso Monumentale dello Steri, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy, 2026.
Becoming FemaleArtist Talk, Museo RISO - Museo regionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Palermo, Italy, 2026
TEDAI VIENNAInvited TED Speaker, Europe's official TED Conference dedicated to Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria, 2025
DisconnessioniTreeArt Festival, Villa of Toppo Florio, Buttrio, Italy, 2025
Plants, OtherwiseThe Institute of Biology Bucharest of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, 2025
Veil of Nature Invited Panel Speaker, University of Tartu Botanical Garden, Tartu, Estonia, 2024
The Encephalartos Woodii Dilemma Land as Pedagogy, The Critical Media Lab, Basel, Switzerland, 2024
AI in the Sky Cycad Society of South Africa, Cato Ridge, South Africa, 2024
Living Dead: On the Trail of a Female The Geo-Information Society of South Africa - GISSA, Durban, MKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2024
The Advent of the Plant Turn Sans Reserve, Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France, 2023
Living Dead: On the Trail of Female Sans Reserve, Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France, 2023
Women & Drones San Diego, California, USA, 2023
Living Dead: On the Trail of a Female Natural Resources Club, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2022
Advances and Novel Techniques in Monitoring and Surveillance The Conservation Symposium, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2022
57th Congress of the Grassland Society of South Africa Aldam Resort, Free State Province, South Africa, 2022
Alone or in Mound LASER Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2022
Roots & Seeds XXI, Cartography of a Garden Malina House, Paris, 2021
From Synthetic Biology to Bio Art BurgLabs Opening Symposium, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Germany, 2020
Interrogating the Art-Science Relationship University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2019
C-Lab's Biological Art Practice Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2015
Bio Art & Synthetic Biology MA Art & Science, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK, 2013
Art and Science Talk with C-Lab Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany, 2013
Do It Together Bio #5: Synthetic Biology Art Workshop with C-Lab, Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2013
Mutamorphosis: Tribute to Uncertainty National Theatre & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012
Subtle Technologies: Where Art and Science Meet Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 2012
The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, UCL, London, UK, 2011
Digital Matter Research Forum, UCL Digital Excursion Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK, 2011
Less Remote: Futures of Space Exploration International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Glasgow, Scotland, 2008
Theorie Cum Praxi Workshop on the Materiality of AV Theory-Practice in Fine Art PhD Research, Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, UK, 2008
Telling Places: Narratives and Identity in Art & Architecture The Slade Research Centre, London, UK, 2007
Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts & Sciences International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT), Prague, Czech Republic, 2007
Biorama Digital Research Unit, Huddersfield, UK, 2007
An Encounter with Biotechnological & Environmental Art Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2007
Bio Art, Explorations of Hybrid Spaces Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK, 2006
Official Launch of the Arts & Genomic Centre University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 2005
Transgenic Art Forum Edinburgh International Science Festival, Scotland, 2005
Gothenberg New Media Art Festival Symposium Valand School of Fine Arts, Göteborg, Sweden, 2005
The Mexico Project Guest Lecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK, 2004
The Cactus Project Guest Lecture, University of Hertfordshire, London, UK, 2002
AI in the SkyTaboo–Transgression–Transcendence in Art & Science 2025 – Book of Abstracts, ed. Dalila Honorato. Ljubljana: Zavod Projekt Atol, October 2025
AI in the Sky In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Art Gallery (SIGGRAPH Art Gallery '25), July 2025
In Search for the Rarest Plant: Art, Drones, and AILeonardo (MIT Press), Jan 2025
Between Absence and Presence: The Convergence of AI, Sensing Technologies, and Art Plastir N°75, La Revue Transdisciplinaire de Plasticité Humaine, Dec 2024
On the Hunt for the Missing FemaleAntennae, The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Nov 2024Searching for a Female Partner for the World’s ‘Loneliest’ PlantThe Conversation, June 2024
Evolving Aesthetics - Intersecting Art & Science in the Language of CellsBrave New World of Synthetic Biology, Albert Meige et al, ADL Blue Shift, December 2023
Living Dead: On the Trail of a FemaleEncephalartos, Journal of the Cycad Society of South Africa, No. 140, June 2023
Living Dead: On the Trail of a FemaleRoots & Seeds XXI. Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance, Claudia Schnugg & Lluis Nacenta, Quo Artis/University Barcelona, December 2022
Theatre of Vegetal AppreciationAnnick Bureaud, Leonardo/Olats, September 2022
The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Through Bio Art and Plant NeurobiologyLeonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2011, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, December 2011
The Sensorial Invisibility of PlantsLeonardo Thinks, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, October 2011
The Mexico Project - An Ecological InvasionOritur, Ivan Henriques, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten / Verbeke Gallery, 2011
The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Through Bio Art and Plant NeurobiologyDoctoral Thesis, UCL (University College London), April 2011
The Martian RoseLeonardo, Vol. 42, No. 2, April 2009
The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Through Bio Art and ScienceSophia, Issue 2, February 2009
The Martian RoseMulti: The RIT Journal of Plurality and Diversity in Design, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2008
The Martian RoseMutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, Conference Proceedings, CIANT, International Centre for Art and New Technologies, 2007
Glassbody: Reflecting on Becoming TransparentEducation Pack, Athletes of the Heart, February 2006
Wie ein Palmfarn mit Drohnen und KI vor dem Aussterben gerettet werden soll Stefan Mey, Der Standard, 19 January 2026
Tracing Life From Above SIGGRAPH, 30 October 2025
Sky-High AI Gary Singh, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 45, no. 06, pp. 8-10, Nov-Dec 2025
*Artwork featured on the front cover of the issue.
Tracing Life From Above SIGGRAPH Conferences, 30 October 2025
A lonely and ancient plant needs a female partner and researchers are using drones and AI to find it – podcastThe Conversation (UK), 19 September 2024
Laura Cinti: AI & DataRock Badger (UK), 11 September 2024 Apple e l’accordo con Openai: nuova Siri in arrivo? Intelligenza Artificiale Spiegata Semplice, Podcast, 10 June 2024 World’s Loneliest Plant Needs a Mate to Grow Old With Tom Whipple, The Times, May 2024 The Living Dead – How Drones and AI Could Help “The Loneliest Plant in the World” Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, 5 July 2023Laura 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 2023The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants Amber Stucke, The Learned Pig, 25 June 2014Interview with C-Lab Metropop, Issue 381, 21 November 2013, p. 130, Hong Kong, China, 2013The Martian Rose - Microwave Festival Art News, Arts Promotion News Network, Hong Kong, China, 2013The Living Mirror Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, 21 October 2013Růže z Marsu Ceska Televise Port TV (Interview for Czech Television), 18 June 2008Interview with Laura Cinti & Howard Boland Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, 12 April 2007Sztuka, Jakiej Nie Znamy Olga Sobolewska, Wiedza i Zycie (Knowledge and Life), Warsaw, Poland, p. 42-45, August 2004"Cactus Project", Een Transgeen Kunstwerk - Een Interview Met Laura Cinti Jan Vandorpe, Succulenta, Issue 04, The Netherlands, p. 174-176, June 2004Laura Cinti: Le Monde Entier Est Un Cactus Esther Quintero, Les Mutants, France, 2004Art, But Not as We Know It New Scientist, UK, p.44 - 47, 28 February 2004
Public Seminar: Weather Reports John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK, 30 May 2024
Art from Synthetic Biology Premiering UK's first living genetic and synthetic biology art exhibition, The Royal Institute of Great Britain, London, UK, 8 – 12 April 2013
The EmigrationMartynas Gaubas, European Public Art Centre, Bishop’s Square, Spitalfields, London, UK, 4 March – 4 May 2012
Dreaming of a ButterflyAntonio Caramelo, European Public Art Centre, Bishop’s Square, Spitalfields, London, UK, 4 November 2011 – 18 February 2012
Synthetic Biology: Machine or Life? Dana Centre, Science Museum, London, UK, 20 October 2011
Bee BoxAnne Brodie, European Public Art Centre, Bishop’s Square, Spitalfields, London, UK, 1 September – 1 November 2011
Telling Places: Narrative and Identity in Art & Architecture Bartlett School of Architecture / Slade School of Fine Art, Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, UK, 5-7 December 2007
Sky-High AI Gary Singh, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 45, no. 06, pp. 8-10, Nov.-Dec. 2025
*Artwork featured on the front cover of the issue.
Prix Ars Electronica 2023 Markus Jandl, Gerfried Stocker (eds), Hatje Cantz, Austria, 2025
Naturalezas transversales. Consciencias vegetales para el cambio Marta Aguilar Moreno y Mónica Oliva Lozano (eds), Madrid: Ediciones Complutense, Spain, 2024
Prix Ars Electronica 2023 Markus Jandl, Gerfried Stocker (eds), Hatje Cantz, Austria, 2023
Qui parle ? (pour les non-humains) Aliocha Imhoff, Kantuta Quirós, Humensis, Presses Universitaires de France, 2022
Emerging Bioart and Biodesign William Myers, Bio Art & Design Award, The Netherlands, 2022
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, 2020
Singularity: Subversive Bioart Tan Liqin, Guangdong People's Publishing House; 1st edition, China, 2019
Synthetic Biology: A Very Short Introduction Jamie A. Davies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2018
Arte Transgenica. La Vita é il Medium Mario Savini, Pisa University Press, Italy, 2018 (Artwork also featured on book cover)
Arte, tecnologia e scienza: le art industries e i nuovi paradigmi di produzione nella new media art contemporanea Marco Mancuso, Associazione Culturale Mimesis, 2018
Cactus Dan Torre, Reaktion Books, London, UK, 2017
World of Art: Sculpture Now Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson, 2013
Green Light, Towards an Art of Evolution George Gessert, MIT Press, USA, 2010
This Mortal Flesh: Incarnation and Bioethics Brent Waters, Brazos Press, USA, 2009
An [Un]Likely Alliance: Thinking Environment[S] With Deleuze/Guattari Paul Lewis, 'The Edge Effect: Art, Science, and Ecology in a Deleuzian Century', Bernd Herzogenrath (ed), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2008
Ethics and the Visual Arts Gail Levin, Elaine A. King, Allworth Press, USA, 2007
NEXT Michael Crichton, Harper Collins Publishers, London, UK/New York, USA, 2006
Det Menneskelige Eksperiment Gert Balling & Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 2006
Art et Biotechnologies L. Poissant, E. Daubner, Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, Canada, 2005
Bioart: Transformations Du Vivant E. Daubner, L. Poissant, Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, Canada, 2005
From Human to Posthuman Brent Waters, Ashgate, Hampshire UK/Burlington, USA, 2006
Verbeelding Van Wetenschap: Images of Science Drs. L. Hanssen, Deining Maatschappelijke Communicatie, Netherlands, 2004
The Molecular Gaze, Art in the Genetic Age Suzanne Anker, Dorothy Nelkin, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, USA, 2004