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I wrote code to generate a large computational wallpaper that covered the front of the Compton Gallery for the Interconnectivity: Seeing in…

Over the summer, I experimented with a graphical editor that automatically interpolates between neighboring shapes. This originated fr…

3D Illusion experiments from autostereograms to lenticular displays.

Archiving 7 years of web experiments and making a platform for new ones.

Research on non-linear and linear least squares for matching doodles.

FaceTerm is an interactive installation that turns you into ASCII art. 

October in Cambridge means the annual colorful show of trees reabsorbing their nutrients in preparation for the winter. The fancy word for …

Explore 563 trillion possible 7×7 grids on an infinite canvas, embedding MIT Media Lab's entire visual identity system.

A lot of the systems tested in the parameter-space exploration tools in Silverpost were abstract, which were forgiving to extreme valu…

The fidelity with which neural networks can now generate content such as music presents a scientific opportunity: these systems appear to h…

On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…

A PCB flute with custom hardware and firmware.

A virtual world painted with letters and words.

An estimated 20-48% of youth in the United States have been exposed to multiple types of trauma in their childhood. This developmental trau…

With computation, it's easy to create systems that have a vast number of variations, but it's sometimes difficult to explore those systems.…

 As a machine learning engineer, I love a good parameterization that represents something interesting, like a creative coding sketch, …

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…

AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…

LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…

Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …

A series of explorations in integrated development environments (IDEs) for graphical creative coding.

How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…

The application of generative AI in physical design presents a novel research area, as these technologies have primarily been utilized for …

In the contemporary media landscape dominated by discourse surrounding AI-generated content, this project inverts the paradigm by examining…

​Background and MotivationGeometric patterns are a prominent form of abstract ornamentation found throughout the Islamic world, characteriz…

ConceptualTales uses generative AI to explain concepts through fiction-inspired analogies. Education, particularly in STEM and social …

Form Forge is a creative system for exploring the latent space of architectural sketches by François Blanciak's in his book SITELESS: 1001 …

Ceramics are ubiquitous, found in household items like toilets and planters, as well as in electronic components such as capacitors and hig…

Professor Tod Machover conducted the world premiere of FLOW Symphony at Seoul Arts Center. Scored for string orchestra and electronics, FLO…

A CNC machine built from scratch for milling Chinese seals and software for computationally generated seal designs.

We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…

The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn is set to premier at the 11th Asia Pacific Tr…

Composed by Kimaya Lecamwasam and performed by Jessica Shand and Charlie Lovell-Jones on April 3, 2023. A preliminary d…

Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within the CoCo platform. It is especially de…

Festivals of Invention and Creativity (FICs) are local celebrations to share and actively engage in creative learning experiences. FIC…

3 quick projects using reaction-diffusion 

Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…

The gondola, a timeless and iconic symbol of Venice and love, embarks on a new journey at the Venice Biennale Arte 2024 (https://www.labien…

I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …

I have been thinking about all the time I spend on the computer and how much the interfaces that we use feel so familiar to us. I thought t…

This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…

Ancestral Storytelling: Movement + Memory embodies motion capture techniques for an interactive and immersive movement and sonic healing pe…

AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…

Char Stiles debuted "Fastest Integer Multiplier" at Amant Gallery's "For Your Reference." This performance used a custom tool CARL&nbs…

Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project aims to develop new methods fo…

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

KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…

When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization t…

Where is the boundary between internal and external?  This series of animations serves as the title for an exhibition of the installat…

Future Sketches installed a group exhibition as part of Zach Lieberman's Future Sketches / Code Poems show at Artechouse, which opened duri…

Science is not just about discovery; it’s an art of communication too.In this project, we are exploring how complex scientific topics can b…

We are currently in an AI revolution. Big AI models are writing entire books, and generating art sold worth millions. Soon content made fro…

I made three cloud lights for an exhibition at Artechouse as part of Zach Lieberman's show Future Sketches  / Code Poems as part …

Analogia is a customizable conversation game that guides players to tell emotion-rich personal stories by combining story 'threads' wi…

The Clubhouse Network has a long history of activism and advocacy. This new initiative aims to enhance and amplify the work already being d…

FrameGrabber is a simple, browser-based tool that lets the user upload an animation and convert it to a grid of stills.

Be My Guest! is currently on display at the Vantaa Art Museum, Finland until December 3, 2023 as part of their "SYSTEMS" exhibition.At the …

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…

 Recreating John Maeda's "Design By Numbers" programming environment in JavaScript Try Online    |    GitHub

Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…

Can computer graphics algorithms be taught through drawing?In this prototypical activity book, we present the steps of four computer graphi…

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsFounded a decade ago, the City Science Network conn…

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…

We are developing hyper-efficient places of living that are dynamically transformable so that compact, more affordable spaces have three ti…

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…

OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…

Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative learn…

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

People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com NeuraFutures …

A Framework For Designing Augmented Human-Flora Interaction.

Low-cost, modular, open source, and portable bio-reactor for urban bio-sensor development.

A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…

This work was presented  at  the ACM CHI 2023 conference. By Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajvee, and…

​This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes.  All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…

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…

Latent Lab reimagines how people interact with unstructured information by turning documents, images, and media into explorable semantic la…

This project was produced as part of the   2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…

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

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…

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

We are building an intelligent musical partner that plays duets with you and teaches music.  This research teaches us how to design mo…

We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…

Finger Talk is a small experiment Future Sketches has been working on related to gestural computation. What does it mean to have code you c…

​A Conversation with the Sun is an artistic exploration by acclaimed Thai auteur and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration…

 Semi-Realistic Rotary Experiences is a set of six simulations of real life scenarios involving the gesture of rotating thin…

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

​This work is recently submitted as a Full Paper to ACM CHI 2023.Corsetto is a full stack system design and platform for upper-body haptics…

How are our phones and email devices altering our ability to engage deeply in our daily tasks?  How important is it to spend time deep…

The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…

Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…

Continuing the work of Liquid Movies, we introduce Liquid Learning, an extension for not simply recommending videos but encouraging people …

​Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…

The "dream" has historically been conceived in the West as internal, entirely private, impossibly personal. This is at odds with much of th…

 An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus

Space architecture projects for the Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space course in partnership with the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media…

(Or, How to Find an Equation for Every Picture)

 Do you work with graphics? Do you often find that an earlier version of your sketch looked more appealing? But then there's no way to…

( Or, How to Pretend You Can Dance)

Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…

The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…

​Can you ever be what you say and say what you are?Can your speech genuinely represent yourself and convey your thoughts and meaning?Does y…

When people listen to stories, the words are colored with emotions conveyed through prosodic features beyond the text alone. Visual font d…

This project explores a computational method to create controlled cuastics. I experiment with a process to transform pixels into caustic im…

We demonstrate a multimodal approach for perceptual learning that supplements a perceptually-ambiguous audio stimulus with haptics. In our …

Immersive Scope is an immersive environment designed to help people visualize complex urban designs in a more engaging and accessible …

What if you could go back in time to your childhood homes? Or what if you could revisit an old vacation spot that you once visited? Or even…

 NeuraLiminal: Choose Your Reality
NeuraLiminal is an immersive art exhibition that celebrates the union between human and machine, sh…

Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…

​In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…

This project transforms light into glass sculptures.  I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…

One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…

CoCo is a real-time co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remo…

What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…