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Media Lab @ SXSW Interactive 2014

LocationAustin, TX DescriptionCheck out sxsw.media.mit.edu to find all the Media Lab talks & events @ SXSW Interactive 2014 in one place!Lo…

Friday — Wednesday
March 7, 2014 —
March 12, 2014
Event

Media Lab @ SXSW 2022

Learn more about the Media Lab community members and projects that are taking the stage during this year's SXSW conference.

Friday — Sunday
March 11, 2022 —
March 20, 2022
Event

Media Lab @ SXSW 2024

See what the Media Lab community is bringing to SXSW 2024!

Friday — Saturday
March 8, 2024 —
March 16, 2024
Event

Media Lab @ SXSW 2020

When South by Southwest 2020 convenes in Austin, TX March 13-21, many of the speakers taking the stage will be members of the Media Lab.

Friday — Saturday
March 13, 2020 —
March 21, 2020
Event

NetMob 2015 @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionThe main conference on the scientific analysis of mobile phone datasets.

Tuesday — Friday
April 7, 2015 —
April 10, 2015
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Media Lab @ SXSW 2018

Members of the Media Lab community to speak at SXSW 2018.

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Media Lab @ SIGGRAPH 2015

LocationLos Angeles Convention Center DescriptionTalks8/10, 9:00am | Jennifer Jacobs: Art Gallery Talk: Line Number8/10, 11:45am | Joi Ito:…

Sunday — Thursday
August 9, 2015 —
August 13, 2015
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Media Lab @ CHI 2015

LocationSeoul, Korea DescriptionThe theme for CHI 2015 is "Crossings": crossing borders, crossing boundaries, crossing disciplines, crossin…

Saturday — Thursday
April 18, 2015 —
April 23, 2015
Article

2014 SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame Inductee: Joi Ito of the MIT Media Lab

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#MLSXSW: 2014 SXSW Interactive Awards

Location6th Floor, Downtown Austin Hilton (500 East 4th St.). Description#MLSXSWSXSW Interactive Festival Hall of Fame Honors Top Industry …

Tuesday
March 11, 2014
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DuoSkin @ SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards 2017

DuoSkin was selected as a finalist for the 20th annual SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards, taking place Tuesday, March 14 at 7:00pm CDT at …

Sunday — Tuesday
March 12, 2017 —
March 14, 2017
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SXSW Interactive Panel with Joi Ito: The New Serendipity?

LocationAustin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 5 500 E Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX DescriptionSerendipity is a fuzzy concept that has a pow…

Sunday
March 10, 2013
Article

DuoSkin wins 2017 SXSW Interactive Innovation Award

DuoSkin is a winner of the 2017 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards.

Article

ML @ SXSW Interactive

Article

Media Lab's ginger.io and FunF are SXSW Accelerator Winners

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SXSW 2022 PanelPicker Proposals

Media Lab students, faculty, researchers, and affiliates pitching panels at SXSW 2022

Article

Robert R. Morris and Daniel McDuff Nominated for SXSW Interactive Award

Article

The Future of Making: Joi Ito and Tim Brown at SXSW Interactive

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SXSW 2019 PanelPicker Proposals

Media Lab students, faculty, researchers and affiliates pitching panels at SXSW 2019

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Tapis Magique wins SXSW 2022 Student Innovation Award

Congratulations to project team researchers Irmandy Wicaksono, Don Derek Haddad, and collaborator Loni Landon!

Event

Algorave at SXSW 2024

WISE presents a lineup of members of the Algorave scene from SF, NYC, Shanghai, and Berlin, including Char Stiles from the MIT Me…

Monday
March 11, 2024
7:00pm — 11:00pm ET
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Tapis Magique nominated for SXSW Innovation Awards 2022 in two categories

Developed in collaboration with dancer Loni Landon, Tapis Magique is a pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet.

Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

The Challenge: To ignite creativity in the face of global challengesThe accelerating crises, disruptions, and disconnections in today’s soc…

Post

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…

Event

SXSW | Artificial Improvisation

ARTHUR SIMONEBot PartyBRADLEY KNOXbots_alivebots_alive founder (and MIT Media Lab alumnus) Dr. Brad Knox joins ColdTowne Theater’s Arthur S…

Sunday
March 12, 2017
12:30pm — 1:30pm ET
Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living thingsHow can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on…

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Media Lab @ TEI 2020

The following Media Lab community members are participating in the 2020 conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction.

Sunday — Wednesday
February 9, 2020 —
February 12, 2020
Article

Media Lab’s new head

Aero-astro professor Dava Newman, noted for her pioneering spacesuit designs, will take over in July.

Event

Media Lab Venture Summit 2020

Featuring dozens of Media Lab startups + nonprofits with interactive demos and opportunities to meet and identify potential collaborations.

Tuesday — Wednesday
January 28, 2020 —
January 29, 2020
8:30am — 7:00pm ET
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…

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SXSW | Humans, Machines & the Future of Industrial Design

In today’s digitally-mediated world, designers translate ideas back and forth between the richly poetic language of the physical world and …

Friday
March 10, 2017
12:30pm ET
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Roundglass + the MIT Media Lab

At the MIT Media Lab, we imagine, design, and invent a future filled with possibilities giving everyone the opportunity to thrive…

Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

The Challenge: To shape the future with decentralized technologiesOur world faces a range of complex challenges across multiple sector…

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SXSW | AI: Actually Still Terrible

KATE DARLINGMIT Media Lab / Harvard Berkman CenterNILESH ASHRAWieden+KennedyEven the smartest computers are still pretty dumb. We want to b…

Thursday
March 16, 2017
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
Publication

Remnance of Form, INTERACTIONS 2015, Demo Hour, Jul 2015

Sang-won Leigh, Asta Roseway, Ann Paradiso

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The End of Reality: The New Augmented Reality @ SXSW

LocationOmni Downtown Capital Ballroom 700 San Jacinto, Austin, TX DescriptionThe 21st century has introduced an array of technologies that…

Tuesday
March 12, 2013
Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

The Challenge: To Transform Mental + Physical WellbeingAs mental health and physical ability challenges surge worldwide, driven by ine…

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GFI Partners + the MIT Media Lab

At the MIT Media Lab, we imagine, design, and invent a future filled with possibilities giving everyone the opportunity to thrive…

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Media Lab @ CHI 2020

The virtual Cambridge CHI event, which is student-run and open to the public, is happening May 14-15th from 11am–2pm EDT.

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The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!

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SXSW | Inspiring Global Change Through Women’s Stories

SARAH JEHAAN KHANALAA MURABITLILA IGRAMSAKENA YACOOBIWomen and girls around the world face formidable challenges. Just two of the grim stat…

Monday
March 13, 2017
12:30pm — 1:30pm ET
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SXSW | Becoming Native: Narratives of Flavor & Culture

How a region eats gives great insight into the narratives that make up its cultural identity and its intersection with landscape and biome.…

Saturday
March 11, 2017
9:30am — 10:30am ET
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SXSW | Uncharted Waters: The Looming Water Crisis

CALEB HARPERMIT Media Lab, Open Agriculture InitiativeTYNE MORGANFarm JournalTEDDY BEKELELand O'Lakes IncThe math of water doesn't add up: …

Sunday
March 12, 2017
3:30pm — 4:30pm ET
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Media Lab Spinoffs

For more than three decades, the people of the Media Lab have spurred progress and change not just through academia, but across startups an…

Article

Dava Newman becomes director of MIT Media Lab

Dava Newman is a visionary astronautics researcher, explorer, and expert on human adaptation to space.

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MIT Media Lab in the Media

Explore coverage of MIT in the MediaFor media inquiries, visit the Information for the Press page.

Publication

Altered Reflection of Physical Reality, TEI 2015 Art Exhibition, 2015

Sang-won Leigh, Asta Roseway, Ann Paradiso

Article

Media Lab Celebrates Co-Founder Davenport's Career

Dozens of Media Lab faculty and alums gathered for a daylong symposium Friday, June 20, to celebrate the career of Glorianna Davenport, hea…

Event

O'Reilly Solid Conference 2015

LocationSan Francisco, CA DescriptionHardware, software, sensors, and physical things are coming together in uncharted waters. To succeed, …

Tuesday — Thursday
June 23, 2015 —
June 25, 2015
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MIT Media Lab x Smart Living Lab

In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation

Publication

Scratch: Creating and sharing interactive media

Karen Brennan, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Mitchel Resnick

Article

Professor Dava Newman named new director of MIT Media Lab

Newman is the first female director of the lab.

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Media Lab Perspectives: Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise? with George Lewis

Professor Tod Machover will welcome George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

Thursday
April 29, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Event

Media Lab @ Interaction Design and Children (IDC)

LocationThe New School, New York, NY DescriptionJie Qi is participating in the workshop "Bridging Books: Printed Media as a Support for Dig…

Monday — Thursday
June 24, 2013 —
June 27, 2013
Event

SXSW | Head Fakes and Pivots: Trump Punks Silicon Valley

BARATUNDE THURSTONBaratunde Bureaucracy CorpFuturist comedian, activist, and best-selling "How to Be Black" author Baratunde Thurston gives…

Wednesday
March 15, 2017
3:30pm — 4:30pm ET
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Canan Dagdeviren joins the Media Lab

Assistant professor leads Conformable Decoders, a new research group at the Media Lab.

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Media Lab @ UbiComp 2023

A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are participating in UbiComp 2023.

Sunday — Thursday
October 8, 2023 —
October 12, 2023
Post

My Media Lab year

A visiting scientist from NHK, Takahito Ito joined the Lab as a company member and left as a crew member.

Publication

Robots as an interactive media

Cynthia Breazeal, Cory D. Kidd

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Media Lab @ UIST 2023

A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are participating in UIST 2023.

Sunday — Wednesday
October 29, 2023 —
November 1, 2023
Project

TouchCounters: Interactive Electronic Labels

TouchCounters are computational tags that track the use of physical objects. TouchCounters sense activity through magnetic, acceleration, a…

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Media Lab Perspectives: Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise? with George Lewis

Thursday April 29, 2021 …

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Media Lab @ 2023 Cambridge Science Festival

Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is an annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM)

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Media Lab researchers honored in 2021 A'Design Awards

Congratulations to the winners of this year's A'Design Awards, including Media Lab researchers Jack Forman, Ali Shtarbanov, and Hila Mor!