{{Short description|British artist and researcher}} {{cleanup|date=July 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Laura Cinti | image = | caption = | other_names = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = Slade School of Fine Art<br />Goldsmiths<br />University of Hertfordshire | occupation = Artist | children = | family = | website = [https://www.c-lab.co.uk C-lab] }}
'''Laura Cinti''' is an artist working with biology.
She is the co-founder and co-director of C-LAB,<ref name="c-lab1">{{cite web|url=http://c-lab.co.uk/default.aspx?id=8 |title=Synthetic Biology Speed Debate |publisher=c-lab |date= |accessdate=2012-08-25}}</ref> a developing art/science studio lab with ''Howard Boland'' who is the co-founder and artistic director of C-LAB and an artist working with Synthetic Biology.
''Laura Cinti'' has a PhD from UCL Slade School of Fine Art in interdisciplinary capacity with UCL University College London Centre of Biomedical Imaging, an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory & Practice (Distinction) from Goldsmiths, University of London and BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class) from University of Hertfordshire.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://c-lab.co.uk/default.aspx?id=15&authorid=1 |title=c-lab |publisher=c-lab |date= |accessdate=2012-08-25}}</ref>
==Projects== * ''Martian Rose'' is an installation which carries the romantic and destructive idea of giving a rose to Mars. Using a planetary simulation chamber the exhibited rose has been exposed to Martian Environment for 6 hours. Mars is a cold place with plummeting temperatures from −60 °C down to −130 °C, the atmospheric pressure is less than 1% of earth's, much lower than on Mount Everest, the prevalent gas is carbon dioxide and UV light penetrates an unshielded atmosphere. The experiment took place on 27 March 2007 at the Mars Simulation Laboratory (University of Aarhus, Denmark) where two (miniature) red roses were subjected to proxy Martian parameters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://c-lab.co.uk/default.aspx?id=9&projectid=53 |title=The Martian Rose |publisher=c-lab |date= |accessdate=2012-08-25}}</ref> * ''The Cactus Project'' is transgenic artwork involving the fusion of human genetic material into the cactus genome resulting in the cactus expressing human hair.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thecactusproject.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=22 June 2011 |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20141126100529/http%3A//www.thecactusproject.com/ |archive-date=26 November 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==External links== * Official site of C-Lab<ref name="c-lab1"/> * Laura Cinti explaining "The Martian Rose" in Less Remote Symposium<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.channels.com/episodes/6417121 |title=Video Page |accessdate=2011-06-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130119092321/http://www.channels.com/episodes/6417121 |archivedate=19 January 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> * Exposing Roses to Martian Atmosphere, Art + Science Experiment 2007<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXucfw6c1kE |title=c-lab – Exposing Roses to Martian Atmosphere, Art + Science Experiment 2007 |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2012-08-25}}</ref>
==Further reading== * Laura Cinti&Howard Boland, ''TheMartian Rose (2007): Exposing a rose to Martian environment on Mutamorphosis'', 22.02.2009<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mutamorphosis.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/the-martian-rose-2007-exposing-a-rose-to-martian-environment/ |title=THE MARTIAN ROSE (2007): EXPOSING A ROSE TO MARTIAN ENVIRONMENT « MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences |publisher=Mutamorphosis.wordpress.com |date=2009-02-22 |accessdate=2012-08-25}}</ref> * ''Art Outsiders'', catalogue, 2009<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.art-outsiders.com/archive_2009/fao2009_presse_uk.pdf |title=Festival Art Outsiders 2009 |publisher= |date= |accessdate=2012-08-25}}</ref> * {{cite journal |last1=Boland |first1=Howard |last2=Cinti |first2=Laura |title=The Martian Rose |journal=Leonardo |date=2009 |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=178–179 |doi=10.1162/leon.2009.42.2.178 |id={{Project MUSE|259900}} }} * ''The Martian Rose (2007): Exposing a rose to the Martian Environment'', information on Multi, Volume 2 Number 1 (Winter 2008) Page 52<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.rit.edu/oajournals/index.php/multi/article/view/194/148 |title=The Martian Rose | Cinti | Multi: The Journal of Plurality and Diversity in Design |publisher=Library.rit.edu |date=2012-07-13 |accessdate=2012-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405143322/http://library.rit.edu/oajournals/index.php/multi/article/view/194/148 |archive-date=5 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''Transgenic, hair-growing plants'' on museumofhoaxes.com<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/580/ |title=Transgenic, hair-growing plants |publisher=Museumofhoaxes.com |date= |accessdate=2012-08-25}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * Brent Waters, ''This Mortal Flesh: Incarnation and Bioethics'', Brazos Press, 2009, 205 pages, English, {{ISBN|1-58743-251-X}}, {{ISBN|978-1-58743-251-4}} * Brent Waters, ''From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology And Technology in a Postmodern World '', Ashgate Pub Co, 2006, 166 pages, English, {{ISBN|0-7546-3914-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7546-3915-2}} * Elaine A. King and Gail Levin, ''Ethics And the Visual Arts'', Allworth Press, 2006, 288 pages, English, {{ISBN|1-58115-458-5}}, {{ISBN|978-1-58115-458-0}}
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