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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
This brief excerpt video shows a glimpse of some of Tod Machover’s innovative, unusual opera realized at—and with the collaboration of—the …
MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce soun…
Alum Adam Haar and artist Carsten Höller talk about the Dream Hotel—a collaboration that began with Höller’s 2021 MIT CAST residency.
We are working with MIT CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller to build prototypes for a Dream Hotel museum exhibition which will translate ex…
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Enhancing human physical capability
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
In recent years, Generative AI technology has risen in popularity and has been promoted for its creative potential. However, applications o…
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
A series of explorations in integrated development environments (IDEs) for graphical creative coding.
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
This project transforms light into glass sculptures. I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Media Lab Professor Zach Lieberman talks about his artistic practice, his daily digital sketches, and his approach to new technologies.
MIT EECS student Andi Qu re-created the classic video game—developed by Media Lab spinoff Harmonix—using an oscilloscope as the display.
Media Lab students and alums are among the winners and honorees for the 2024 MIT Prize for Open Data.
In Scientific American, Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn and others consider the ways that art shapes our understanding of and interactions with AI.
Looking beyond smart cities
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
Char Stiles from Future Sketches performed in Daniel Shiffman's book release show.
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
ColloGraphy (colloquy+calligraphy) is a tangible way to interact and communicate with another person from a different time, whether a loved…
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Blanchard, Lancelot*, Perry Naseck*, Eran Egozy, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2024. “Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.69c11de7.
Composed by Kimaya Lecamwasam and performed by Jessica Shand and Charlie Lovell-Jones on April 3, 2023. A preliminary d…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
The Notable Children’s Digital Media list recognizes real-time, dynamic, and interactive media content for children 14 years of age.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
This project explores a computational method to create controlled cuastics. I experiment with a process to transform pixels into caustic im…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
Callender was awarded this prize for his body of work, Light Sculptures, Matters of Impermanence.
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…
Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.
Hex House was co-founded by Char Stiles, a master's student in the Future Sketches research group.
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, who has collaborated with the Media Lab's Future Sketches group, fabric itself tells the story.
Nicole L'Huillier, an alum of the Opera of the Future group, is collaborating on a sound installation at this year's Venice Biennale.
Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.
Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.
Illuminate has been nominated for a 2024 SXSW Innovation Award in the Student Innovation category. Illuminate is an in…