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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +55 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +65 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Festival of Learning

An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.

in Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio · Lifelong Kindergarten
Katherine McConachie · J. Philipp Schmidt +4 more
#design #art #learning + teaching
Archived
Project Research

Drawing++ Workshop

Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concepts …

in Future Sketches
Zach Lieberman · Chelsi Cocking
#design #art #learning + teaching +2 more
Archived
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Research
Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

#robotics #design #agriculture +11 more
Project Research

Living Knitwork Pavilion

​2023 Burning Man Arts"Once upon a time, in the heart of the Black Rock City desert, a knitted shade structure seamlessly melded ancient an…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Nicole Bakker +3 more
#design #architecture #art +4 more
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

#art #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +23 more
Accepting Applicants
Post Research

MAS.S64 City Sci-fi : student projects 2023

Final projects created in MAS.S64 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities.Students were prompted to …

May 23, 2023
in City Science
#design #architecture #art
Course Research

MAS.S64 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities

This class is a hands-on workshop on fiction narrative and movie making.

MAS.S64 · with Kent Larson, Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor, Gabriela Bila Advincula
in City Science
#design #architecture #art +1 more
Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +69 more
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Kathleen Esfahany · Eyal Perry +6 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +16 more
Project Research

Computational Knitting Patterns

​This project explores a few computational approaches to use the shape of a knitted garment as input for its pattern.This experiment combin…

in Future Sketches
Vera van de Seyp
#design #art #fashion
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +30 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Grain Prism

The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touch …

in City Science
Don Derek Haddad · Gabriela Bila Advincula
#design #art #music +1 more
Article Research

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.

via MIT News · July 20, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#art #space #community +3 more
Project Research

Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Mental Health

As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …

in Opera of the Future · Biomechatronics · Affective Computing
Kimaya Lecamwasam · Max Addae +3 more
#human-computer interaction #art #cognition +1 more
How computational tools help to capture, visualize, and analyze human experiences.
#art #consumer electronics #entertainment +3 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Article Research

MIT Museum Collection Highlights: Holography

Explore the MIT Museum's collection of holograms, which includes examples of the rainbow holograms developed by Stephen Benton.

via MIT Museum · March 20, 2023
in Spatial Imaging
#architecture #art #holography
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +64 more
Accepting Applicants
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people

#robotics #design #virtual reality +59 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +67 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Zenolith - An Interplanetary Time Device

On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of the …

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sands Fish · Che-Wei Wang +1 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…

in City Science
Carson Smuts · Gabriela Bila Advincula +8 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle

#robotics #design #architecture +10 more
Archived
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Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal
#design #art #artificial intelligence +8 more
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +67 more
Accepting Applicants
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop

#design #virtual reality #computer vision +43 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Prismo - Transformable floor lamp based on prismatic structure

Prismo lamp is designed and constructed based on a classical example of the prismatic structure. It takes advantage of the periodic and spa…

in Tangible Media
Liu Yang
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +1 more
Article Research

‘Overstory Overture’ – Tod Machover’s upcoming music magic at Lincoln Center

Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future, talks about his career, his creative approach, and his latest work, "Overstory Overture".

via OperaWire · March 1, 2023
in Opera of the Future
#art #environment #music +1 more
Article Research

Q&A: Tod Machover on “Overstory Overture,” his new operatic work

Tod Machover, head of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group, talks to MIT News about his new operatic work, "Overstory Overture.".

via MIT News · Feb. 27, 2023
in Opera of the Future
#art #environment #music +1 more
Post Research

MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2023 Brings Dreams to Life

Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association

Feb. 15, 2023
in Tangible Media · Molecular Machines · Fluid Interfaces
#art #artificial intelligence #entertainment +5 more
Project Research

Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…

in ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio · Lifelong Kindergarten
J. Philipp Schmidt · Ada Ren-Mitchell +7 more
#robotics #design #art +6 more
Article Research

E Ink’s latest color displays have me dreaming of electronic paper magazines

Media Lab spinoff E Ink’s new generation of color displays were introduced at CES 2023.

via TechCrunch · Jan. 12, 2023
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#design #art #consumer electronics +2 more
Article Research

What would true diversity sound like?

Ekene Ijeoma uses audio of people counting from 1 to 100 in a variety of languages to capture the full diversity of voices across the US.

via MIT Technology Review · Dec. 30, 2022
in Poetic Justice
#art #data visualization #marginalized communities +1 more
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +67 more
Accepting Applicants
Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
#robotics #architecture #art +23 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +30 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Accepting Applicants
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +39 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Unveiling the Invisible

Tamiko Thiel, an innovator in VR/AR who studied computer graphics and visual imaging, talks about her work and her career.

via Arts at MIT · Nov. 30, 2022
in Architecture Machine Group · Visible Language Workshop
#virtual reality #art #artificial intelligence +3 more
Article Research

Creating a sense of feeling

Biomedical engineer and dancer Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20 explores connections between the human body and the outside world.

via MIT News · Nov. 27, 2022
in Biomechatronics
#art #social science #engineering +1 more
Article Research

Using game engines and “twins” to co-create stories of climate futures

Ceasar McDowell, among others, spoke to participants at the WORLDING workshop on “Land-Use Planning and Authorship."

via MIT News · Dec. 1, 2022
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#art #event #gaming +2 more
Article Research

The weird and wonderful art created when AI and humans unite

Alum Alexander Reben describes his experience making art with algorithms and considers what the future of the field may bring.

via BBC · Nov. 27, 2022
in Responsive Environments
#robotics #art #artificial intelligence
Research
Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

#robotics #design #social networks +69 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Microgravity Extrusion

Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gravi…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Sean Auffinger +1 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Article Research

Welcome to the MIT Museum’s ‘spiffy’ new digs in Kendall Square

The museum’s director, John Durant, talks about the new location and installations including Media Lab alum Andy Cavatorta’s sculpture.

via Boston Globe · Oct. 14, 2022
in Opera of the Future
#design #art #music +1 more
Article Research

Documentary featuring Professor Sara Seager wins Emmy Award

Four Emmy nominees in this year’s Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category feature MIT students, faculty, and alumni.

via MIT News · Oct. 5, 2022
in Civic Media
#art #space
Article Research

Artist Ani Liu has some radical suggestions for what pregnancy could look like: It begins with artificial wombs

The artist's incisive exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery addresses the biological and political realities of childbearing and rearing.

via Artnet · July 29, 2022
in Design Fiction
#art #kids #biology +4 more
Article Research

Interview with Jacob Collier: It's proper special

Grammy Award-winning artist Jacob Collier talks to Opera of the Future alum Andy Hong about music and technology.

via Tape Op · Sept. 1, 2022
in Opera of the Future
#art #music #interfaces +1 more
Article Research

How AI-generated art is changing the concept of art itself

Critics, practitioners, and researchers like Human Dynamics PhD student Ziv Epstein talk about AI-generated art..

via LA Times · Sept. 21, 2022
in Human Dynamics
#design #art #artificial intelligence +1 more
Article Research

“Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air”: On growing up Muslim in America

Six MIT students, including Biomechatronics student Ayse Guvenilir, share their thoughts on belonging, identity, love, and MIT itself.

via The Tech · July 7, 2022
in Biomechatronics
#art #event #politics +2 more
Article Research

MIT welcomes eight MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2022-23

MLK Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.

via MIT News · July 14, 2022
in Space Enabled
#art #music #space +3 more
Article Research

Breathing Architecture

Ekene Ijeoma's Breathing Pavilion installation explores the power and meaning of breath.

via Grimshaw Foundation · Dec. 7, 2022
in Poetic Justice
#design #architecture #art +2 more
Project Research

Spatial Flux: Body and architecture in space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…

in City Science · Space Exploration Initiative
Carson Smuts · Chrisoula Kapelonis
#design #architecture #art +4 more
Project Research

Photorythms

Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…

in Future Sketches
Chelsi Cocking
#design #computer vision #art +2 more
Project Research

Let's Chance: Playful Probabilistic Programming for Children

Probabilistic thinking has been one of the most powerful ideas in the history of science, and it is rapidly gaining even more relevance as …

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Manuj Dhariwal · Shruti Dhariwal
#human-computer interaction #art #interfaces +2 more
Project Research

Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…

in Space Enabled
Javier Stober
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Project Research

A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…

in Poetic Justice
Ekene Ijeoma
#robotics #design #art +11 more
Project Research

Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…

in Poetic Justice
Nina Lutz · Justin Blinder +1 more
#art #data #creativity +5 more
Research
Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts

#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +30 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

'@artbhot' - Towards a Creative Partner on Social Media

@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations.  Access…

in Viral Communications
Amy Smith
#social networks #human-computer interaction #art +1 more
Article Research

New MIT Museum glimpses the future and examines school’s past

The Boston Globe takes a tour around the new MIT Museum, highlighting a number of exhibits and events related to the Media Lab.

via The Boston Globe · Sept. 29, 2022
in Opera of the Future · Personal Robots · Poetic Justice
#robotics #art #music
Research
Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#robotics #design #social networks +41 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +37 more
Project Research

Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy

​Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn
#virtual reality #human-computer interaction #art +4 more
Archived
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BubbleSynth: Soap to Sound

BubbleSynth translates motion tracking and blob detection data collected from floating soap bubbles into sound, by using the size, position…

Daniel Novy
#art #music #creativity +2 more
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +32 more
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +21 more
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