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An MIT researcher is helping students bring their favorite sci-fi technologies to life.
Ekene Ijeoma, head of the Poetic Justice research group, talks to Frame about his work.
Postdoc Dan Novy on SciFi-preneurship, a summer series from the All Turtles Podcast.
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …
Open Drawing Machine is a low-cost open source drawing machine for controlling drawing instruments with motors and code, and it is oriented…
An open source digital instrument to check if institutions still exist, and alert when they don't exist anymore.The instrument periodically…
Andrea Ling, an alum of the Mediated Matter group, has won the Grand Prize in Artistic Exploration at this year's festival.
Canadian architect and installation artist Andrea Ling has received the 2020 STARTS Grand Prize in the category of Artistic Exploration.
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
People speak as many as 800 languages in New York alone. With A Counting, Ekene Ijeoma aims to represent every single one.
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNAs,…
In this project the ephemeral and intangible aspects of human communication are represented by a soap-bubble. The shapeless, intangibl…
We present an interactive shape-changing display—Dancing Membrane of the reSpire- using the deformation of fabric and airflow control…
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of info…
What if we could look at the entire history of humanity at once? Pantheon aims to create a data-driven view of history by collecting, …
A collaboration between CAST visiting artist Thom Kubli, Hiroshi Ishii, and members of the Tangible Media group.
Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma in conversation with Stephen Burks.
The exhibition has now become a part of the MoMA's ‘Virtual Views’ program due to the pandemic.
Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma talks to NPR about his work, from Deconstructed Anthems to A Counting.
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
Thom Kubli, in collaboration with the Tangible Media group, on the development of a machine that can 3D print objects light enough to float.
Artists and scientists from MIT united to create "Orbiting," an aerial archive of objects that trace the history of humanity.
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
MotivationThe need for inexpensive, reliable, 3D, 360-degree display technologies grows as augmented reality applications continue to incre…
State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually ass…
kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elastic…
The award recognizes outstanding contributions within the realm of scientific photography.
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems to…
"We, as architects of the built environment, are entering an era where we’re designing for survival.”
The University of San Francisco Museum Blog highlights the Museums and Technology course taught by Opera of the Future alum Eyal Shahar
Terrestrial Sensing
“Data scientists and visualization designers need to take their civic role very seriously in a pandemic,” says the MIT assistant professor.
Coming shows involve artificial intelligence, but underlying them is a concern: “What are we unleashing?”
When we say we’re “democratizing access to space exploration,” what do we mean?
Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and create…
Because the walls and halls of E14 and E15 are subject to building codes and approvals, we decided to create our own walls.
“My team and I stand in the crossroads, challenging some of the processes that designers face at the intersection of biology and technology"
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.
The venturesome Oxman talks experimental materials and lunar habitation with the renowned architect.
Aguahoja I shows how nature can help us to design new materials, highlighting the relationship between nature and technology.
To build a new pavilion in midtown Manhattan, the architect Neri Oxman employed 17,000 silkworms.
Ethics Initiative
Director's fellow Christine Sun Kim expresses her pride and frustration at signing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl.
Connected Coral integrates physical and digital elements in a visualization of the environmental impacts on reefs. This complex projection …
WBUR’s picks for winter art exhibits around the Boston area include director’s fellow Christine Sun Kim’s “Off the Charts.”
Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printing …
Ten multi-disciplinary teams join MIT’s design entrepreneurship accelerator.
Produced by Media Lab spinoff Graviky Labs, AIR-INK was developed by Fluid Interfaces alum Anirudh Sharma.
New adjunct associate professor combines fine arts and coding.
Congratulations to Fluid Interfaces alum Anirudh Sharma and his spinoff Graviky Labs!
Bernal, Guillermo, Lily Zhou, Haripriya Mehta, and Pattie Maes. NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, December 14, 2019.
Berke, A., Sanchez Lengeling, T., Nawyn, J., & Larson, K. (2019, November). Bike Swarm. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1-4). ACM.
“[The wild boars] look at me like I am a visitor. It's like they’re the owners and I’m the guest. Wild animals that normally live in nature…
Please help Poetic Justice create an artwork that includes all the communities, voices, and languages of NYC.
Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow Prathima Muniyappa uses the transformative power of design to empower marginalized indigenous communities.
“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” Sc…
CE 2.0
"Loops" combines the work of the Lab's Synthetic Characters group, Merce Cunningham, and digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar. A …
Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar collaborated on Loops, an exploration of Merce Cunningham's life and work.
Advancing Wellbeing
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
An exhibition at the Barbican in London features work from OpenAg, the Mediated Matter group, Joy Buolamwini, and more.
David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.
SFMOMA has announced that Neri Oxman will receive a prestigious award this fall
The Dezeen Awards 2019 design longlist includes two projects from the Mediated Matter group.