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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

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

👋 CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Shruti Dhariwal · Manuj Dhariwal
#kids #learning + teaching #social science +6 more
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +32 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Robot ChatGPT, GPT-4: "It's time to slow down the development of artificial intelligence"

Researcher Pattie Maes believes it's crucial to build machines to support our intelligence rather than replace it.

via Le Point · March 16, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces
#artificial intelligence #code
Research
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
Article Research

San Gabriel teen codes his way toward the future, heads to West Point Military Academy

Korbin Deary talks about his involvement with Scratch, a programming platform created by the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the Lab

via Pasadena Weekly · June 23, 2022
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning + teaching #code
Post Research

Scratch hits a major milestone—100 million global users!

Scratch, a coding platform for children, was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Lab in 2007.

Dec. 2, 2022
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning + teaching #code
Article Research

Making art through computation

Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.

via MIT News · June 26, 2022
in Future Sketches
#art #civic technology #machine learning +3 more
Archived
Project Research

Daily Sketches: Nina Lutz

Nina does daily sketches on Twitter @ninasketches or at the website for her 2021 sketches , where you can see them in all their glory.You c…

in Future Sketches
Nina Lutz · Zach Lieberman
#design #art #computer science +1 more
Archived
Article Research

Informer Episode 10: Zach Lieberman

Zach Lieberman talks to arts curator Roddy Schrock about creative coding, his career path, the work of his group at the Media Lab, and more.

via Informer Podcast · Jan. 10, 2022
in Future Sketches
#art #gaming #creativity +1 more
Project Research

Tree Clocks: an interactive rhythm and language work

By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi MishraCode Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Pr…

in Future Sketches · Opera of the Future
Chelsi Cocking · Manaswi Mishra
#art #music #computer science +2 more
Article Research

The 2021 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

The Council for the Arts at MIT congratulates the recipients of the 2021 Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts.

via Arts at MIT · May 27, 2021
in Poetic Justice · Future Sketches
#design #art #computer science +1 more
Article Research

Coded Illustrations

Zach Lieberman talks about the illustrations he created for this week’s cover story of The NYT Magazine and translating code-based art.

via Medium · March 18, 2021
in Future Sketches
#design #art #computer science +2 more
Project Research

Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +30 more
#robotics #design #art +15 more

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