About

C-LAB is an award-winning collective engaging in projects that merge art, science, and technology to create artworks through an experimental and exploratory approach.

C-LAB is headed up by Dr Howard Boland and Dr Laura Cinti whose artworks have been exhibited and presented worldwide.

Art Collective

C-LAB is an internationally recognised transdisciplinary art platform that generates and participates in both artistic and scientific forums brokering discussions on the intersections of art and science. C-LAB also curates events, exhibitions and workshops focusing on the intersections of art and biotechnology.


Artworks have been presented at venues such as the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), Ars Electronica (Linz), MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts (Rome), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Espace Fondation EDF (Paris), National Theatre & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Prague), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville), Stone Bell House (Prague), The Royal Institute of Great Britain (London), Microwave International New Media Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Göteborg New Media Art Festival (Röda Sten), International Astronautical Congress (Glasgow) and Edinburgh International Science Festival.


C-LAB has collaborated with commercial partners, cultural organisations and scientific institutes on national and international levels to deliver public conferences, events and exhibitions including: UCL, Spitalfields, Science Museum, Grant Museum of Zoology, AMOLF, Waag Society, German Cancer Research Centre, Mars Simulation Laboratory and Art Laboratory Berlin. C-LAB’s research has been published in journals and articles such as Leonardo (MIT Press) and The Conversation (UK).


Projects have been featured across national and international media including: The Times, BBC, World Tonight, BBC Radio 4, BBC’s Have I got News for You, The Independent, Wired, The Standard, LA7 Television Channel (Italy), Corriere della Sera, The New York Times, USA Today, The Scotsman, Ceska Televise Port TV (Czech Television), New Scientist, Courrier International (France), Wiedza I Zycie (Poland), CNET (USA) and Scientific News Program (Vox Channel, Canada).


Books featuring C-LAB’s projects include: Arte Transgenica. La Vita é il Medium (Mario Savini), Sculpture Now (Anna Moszynska), Cactus (Dan Torre), Next (Michael Crichton), An [Un]Likely Alliance: Thinking Environment[s] with Deleuze/Guattari (Bernd Herzogenrath), Det Menneskelige Eksperiment (Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Copenhagen) and Synthetic Biology: A Very Short Introduction (Jame A Davies).

Notable Activities

Curating the UK's first public exhibition featuring living genetically modified organisms developed as part of Dr Howard Boland’s innovative research in synthetic biology to produce novel visual expressions in bacteria in 2013 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (London).


Winners of the 2012 DA4GA - Designers & Artists for Genomics Award - and the opportunity to work with one of Amsterdam’s leading scientific institutes - AMOLF. C-LAB was granted a licence to officially exhibit genetically modified organisms (GMO) - a first in the Netherlands - as published by the Bureau Genetisch Gemodificeerde Organismen (Bureau GGO) in 2013 paving the way for GMO artworks to be exhibited.


Awarded EU funding to curate a series of public art exhibitions - European Public Art Centre (2010-2012) - at the renowned Spitalfields in London as part of a European-wide collaboration between organisations for which C-LAB was the UK partner.
Art from Synthetic Biology, Royal Institute of Great Britain, 8 - 12 April 2013, London, UK.
Art from Synthetic Biology, Royal Institute of Great Britain, 8 - 12 April 2013, London, UK.

Howard Boland

Howard Boland is an artist at C-LAB and creative technologist and AI lead at Accenture Song. A self-motivated enthusiast of new technologies, he has conducted pioneering research and practice, culminating in an award-winning PhD that combines new media with synthetic biology, presenting it as programmable media. Internationally recognised for his contributions to new media, Howard exhibits his work on future trends and cutting-edge technologies. He’s delivered talks on his practice at prominent conferences, institutions and events, including TEDx, and the University of Oxford.
Howard Boland’s video using Open AI’s Sora featured at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2024, 18 June
Howard Boland’s video using Open AI’s Sora featured at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2024, 18 June 2024.

Laura Cinti

Laura Cinti is a research-based artist whose practice intersects science, technology, and visual storytelling through experimentation and field research. Often engaging with plants and their entanglements with technology, her work transforms research processes into artworks that merge ecological investigation with artistic speculation. Her artworks have been exhibited internationally at venues including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, and have been featured in media outlets such as The Times, BBC, The Independent, National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine and BBC’s Have I Got News for You.
TEDAI, Europe's official TED Conference dedicated to Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, September 2025.
TEDAI, Europe's official TED Conference dedicated to Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, September 2025.