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Xin Liu

Arts Curator, Space Exploration Initiative (External Collaborator)
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Xin Liu wins inaugural K11 Artist Prize

Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.
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TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023: SeedLabs MicroPET

The SeedLabs MicroPET, which began as a Media Lab collaboration, was selected to TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023.
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Chinese artist Xin Liu takes us inside her lab-like London studio, where engineering and creativity converge.

Xin Liu, an alum of the Fluid Interfaces group and collaborator with the Space Exploration Initiative, talks to Artnet about her practice.
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Alumni Xin Liu and Nan Zhao collaborate on "Lycorises"

The series was initially inspired by the work of Ernst Haeckel.
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On-orbit livestream events for two Media Lab research projects | Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2)

Q+A sessions on two research projects with contributors from MIT and the Media Lab will be livestreamed from the ISS on May 26 and May 28.
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MIT Media Lab research on the Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) launch

The Axiom Mission 2 launch will carry a variety of research from the MIT Media Lab to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 21, 2023
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MIT HUMANS project breaks down borders, empowering global voices to reach for the stars

The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon.
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Artist Xin Liu lets science-backed absurdity take the wheel

The artist and MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative Arts curator makes work that explores why the seemingly impossible is possible.
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MicroPET is the top finalist for ISS National Lab Sustainability Challenge

Last Friday, the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory gathered a variety of thought leaders at a virtual event to discuss …
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ISS Mission 2022

This mission marks the Media Lab's fourth rocket launch.
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Xin Liu selected as a finalist at the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021

Alum Xin Liu has been listed as a finalist in the Art and Science category of this year's Falling Walls Science Summit.
Nov. 10, 2021
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Why artist and engineer Xin Liu sent her wisdom tooth into outer space

The LA Times talks to Fluid Interfaces alum Xin Liu about her art project Living Distance.
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With the HUMANS project, a message that space is for everyone

Supported by the Space Exploration Initiative, the student-run HUMANS project aims to increase global representation in space.
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Zero Gravity Flight 2021

Founded in 2016 and now in our fifth year, we set our sights on space. The Space Exploration Initiative has since grown to 5…
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How to shape a productive scientist–artist collaboration

Researchers + artists reflect on the partnerships that have created career opportunities and forged a deeper public understanding of science
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Space Has Arrived: Space Exploration Initiative at Ars Electronica 2020

This year, SEI joined the Ars Electronica In Kepler’s garden online program and presented three workshops and an online lecture.
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Member Collaboration—Open Lab: Home Sprint with Google Arts & Culture

A 48-hour creative exchange between more than 40 artists and creative technologists.
June 24, 2020
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Five MIT payloads deployed on ISS

A cohort of transdisciplinary researchers will study effects of sustained microgravity
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The artist-engineer in VR

At Sundance New Frontiers 2020, Xin Liu and Qinya (Jenny) Guo debuted Living Distance, a VR piece about the journey of Liu’s wisdom tooth.
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Sojourner 2020 art works
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Sojourner 2020 | An international art payload to ISS

Nine groups of artists are selected to be on board Sojourner 2020, which will be launched into low Earth orbit for about 30 days.
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ISS Mission 2020

This mission marks the Media Lab's second ever rocket launch, and first launch to the ISS .
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Designing humanity’s future in space

The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity
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SEI Exhibition at Ars Electronica 2019: 50 Years After the Moon

Ars Electronica FestivalSeptember 5-9, 2019 at POSTCITY, Linz, Austria 50 years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, we are seeing …
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Zero Gravity Flight 2019

This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
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Mollastica - From Deep Sea to Deep Space

Impenetrable darkness, extreme pressure, cold water, and disorienting equilibrium. Deep sea creatures live in a world that is closer to out…
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Earthlings—Space Exploration Initiative open call for artworks in low Earth orbit

What are the opportunities and challenges in the creation of art for space, and art depicting space and space technologies?
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Six suborbital research payloads from MIT fly to space and back

Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes
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Six suborbital research payloads fly on Blue Origin New Shepard

The projects on board the Media Lab's first suborbital rocket flight
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Beyond the Cradle 2019: Gallery
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A glitch in the stars: Space Exploration Initiative exhibition at Ars electronica Festival 2018

A glitch in the stars: Space Exploration Initiative exhibition at Ars electronica Festival 2018
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Curating the human experience of space—present, future, and fiction

Xin Liu discusses the Space Exploration Initiative's upcoming arts exhibition at Ars Electronica
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MIT's 'Orbit Weaver' turns astronauts into spiders

A new MIT Media Lab device takes a page from Spiderman to help astronauts navigate while weightless.
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This device makes people find others more attractive by playing fake breathing sounds

Masque induces psychological changes by altering how users perceive their breathing.
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DermalAbyss wins Scifi No Longer Award at SXSW

The 21st annual SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards honored DermalAbyss with the Scifi No Longer Award, given to "the coolest scie…
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Rhapsody in Zero G

Reimagining research for life in space
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TreeSense featured in Global Grad Show at Dubai Design Week 2017

TreeSense, a sensory VR experience that allows users to experience the full lifecycle of a tree, was  featured in the Global Grad Show…
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Congratulations to the Media Lab's 2017 Innovation by Design Award Honorees

Labbers honored in Fast Company's Innovation By Design Awards 2017.
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Escape from the Horror of 2017 by Becoming a Tree

Nest caterpillars in your arms, and watch the days pass.
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Probing into the Skin’s Abyss

Updates on the DermalAbyss project
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TreeSense, la realtà virtuale per trasformarsi in un albero

TreeSense è un simulatore di alberi per umani, ovvero un’interfaccia in realtà virtuale che permette di trasformare la persona in un albero…
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Core77 Interaction Award: Student Runner Up

Core77 Design Awards 2017: Student Runner Up Interaction Award
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This Tattoo Ink Can Sense How Healthy You Are

Combining tattoos and biotech to create biosensing ink that could one day give us information about our health via our skin.
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MIT researchers develop tattoo inks that could act as health trackers

Researchers from MIT's Media Lab have developed a tattoo ink that changes colour according to varying glucose and pH levels inside the body.
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These color-changing tattoos monitor your health, no wearable needed

Researchers at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School teamed up to create tattoo ink that reacts to your body’s chemistry.
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If you were a tree

Virtual reality creates a new perspective in storytelling and engagement.
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Skrin in ASVOFF9

Skrin has been selected to be screened at ASVOFF9 Sofia, Bulgaria, 9th-11th June, in the section Wearable Technology in Fashion Film curate…