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Zach Lieberman receives Digital Art Award 2025

Zachary Lieberman receives 2025 Digital Art Award for his pioneering creative coding and innovation in new media art.
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Inaugural Morningside Academy for Design Professorships named

MIT MAD has established new professorships and appointed three MIT faculty to advance design education across disciplines.
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"Re·Live" project receives Honorable Mention for Best Paper at IEEE VR 2025

Award for research exploring how immersive VR deepens the emotional experience of personal memories.
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TeleAbsence: Poetic encounters with the past

MIT researchers lay out design principles behind the TeleAbsence vision and how it could help people cope with loss
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Bridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices

Prof. Craig Carter’s precision design for a student-led project now on the moon encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer
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Ask an Engineer: Will we ever run out of music? As long as someone is listening, the beat will go on.

Media Lab alum Eran Egozy tells MIT Engineering that the potential for new musical creations is, for all practical purposes, infinite.
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Scratching the Surface: Taylor Levy and Che-Wei Wang

Taylor Levy and Che-Wei Wang are the founders of the art and design studio CW&T.
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Building adventure

At East Campus, ambitious construction projects draw first-year students to the dorm each fall.
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Promoting Playful Learning With Technology

Mitchel Resnick—creator of Scratch and OctoStudio—shares how teachers can maximize students’ use of tech for creative purposes.
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Visions of A.I. Art From OpenAI’s First Artist in Residence

While many artists view A.I. as a threat to their livelihoods, Media Lab alum Alexander Reben embraces it as a collaborator.
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A portable light system that can digitize everyday objects

A new design tool uses UV and RGB lights to change the color and textures of everyday objects.
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Machines and Bodies

In a world where technology often feels cold and impersonal, Behnaz Farahi redefines the human-machine relationship.
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Brains, fashion, alien life, and more: Highlights from the Cambridge Science Festival

Organized by the MIT Museum, the 2024 celebration of science, technology, and culture was the largest in its history.
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Kids are learning how to make their own little language models

A new program aims to teach them how AI works, by getting hands-on.
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Here’s what happens when humans and AI dance together

At MIT, the Open Dance Lab is exploring how to preserve an ancient dance form with the help of artificial intelligence.
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The Culture Show Podcast: Craig Ferguson, Big Screen Classics at the Coolidge, and Gaze to the Stars at MIT

“Gaze to the Stars” is part of Artfinity, MIT’s Festival for the Arts.
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MIT launches new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program

The program will invite students to investigate new vistas at the intersection of music, computing, and technology.
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Panel discussion with Adam Haar and Carsten Höller, moderated by Vassilis Oikonomopoulos

Media Lab alum Adam Haar Horowitz and artist Carsten Höller discuss their Dream Hotel collaboration.
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Meet The Chinese Artist Who Bridges Art, Technology And Human Dreams

Calling herself both artist and engineer, Xin Liu incorporates elements of space exploration, biotech, and data science into her projects.
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Making The Voice Hands-on

Max Addae’s innovative instrument creates new connections between sound and touch.
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Poetic Justice to Plant 40,000 Trees as Black Lives Memorial

Led by a team of MIT researchers, the project seeks to create art 'at the scale of injustice'.
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Black Forest by Poetic Justice aims to plant 40,000 trees and collect 40,000 stories across the U.S. as a memorial for Black life

To date, more than 300 mid- to large-size trees have already been planted.
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Tree-planting project memorialising Black lives lost brings 40,000 trees to urban centres across the US

The community-driven living monument from MIT Media Lab’s Poetic Justice will include an evolving, digitally networked story archive
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Mitchel Resnick receives 2025 SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

This award honors an individual or group in recognition of a significant contribution to computer science education.
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Radical Atoms Exhibition at MIT Museum by Tangible Media Group

Radical Atoms: Making Bits Tangible and Atoms DanceThe MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group (TMG) explores the tangible and dynamic relatio…
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The Interview: Carsten Höller + Adam Haar

Alum Adam Haar and artist Carsten Höller talk about the Dream Hotel—a collaboration that began with Höller’s 2021 MIT CAST residency.
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MIT Media Lab 40th Anniversary

Join us as we celebrate the MIT Media Lab's 40th anniversary year in 2025!
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Alum Steve Mann receives 2025 IEEE Consumer Electronics Award

Mann has been recognized for contributions to the advancement of wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging.
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A data designer driven to collaborate with communities

Media Lab alum + MIT DUSP Prof Catherine D’Ignazio thinks carefully about how we acquire and display data—and why we lack it for many things
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Professor Tod Machover Honored by the French Culture Ministry as Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters

Tod Machover Honored as Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters
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A model of virtuosity

Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
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Spirit of Blobs: Artist Zachary Lieberman in conversation

Media Lab Professor Zach Lieberman talks about his artistic practice, his daily digital sketches, and his approach to new technologies.
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Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope!

MIT EECS student Andi Qu re-created the classic video game—developed by Media Lab spinoff Harmonix—using an oscilloscope as the display.
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Weaving a web of textile research

Meet Irmandy Wicaksono and other MIT researchers whose work with textiles weaves handcrafts with new materials and digital technologies.
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How new science fiction could help us improve AI

In Scientific American, Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn and others consider the ways that art shapes our understanding of and interactions with AI.
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2024 MIT Prize for Open Data: Media Lab honorees

Media Lab students and alums are among the winners and honorees for the 2024 MIT Prize for Open Data.
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Alexandra Rieger: Innovating Omnisensory Medicine at MIT & Harvard

PhD student Alexandra Rieger discusses her research combining music, engineering, neuroscience, and design.
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Lifelong Kindergarten and MIT CBA named in Boston Globe article on biggest MIT contributions

The contributions spotlighted aim to get kids excited about, and more proficient in, STEM.
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OctoStudio named to Notable Children's Digital Media list

The Notable Children’s Digital Media list recognizes real-time, dynamic, and interactive media content for children 14 years of age.
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The Chosun Daily covers the world premiere of FLOW Symphony in Seoul

Can AI collaborate with a chamber orchestra in real time? Tod Machover, a professor at MIT Media Lab is taking on this challenge in Korea.
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Smart textiles with Irmandy Wicaksono

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks to Infra Magazine about his work, which blends electronics and textiles.
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A whale’s tale from artist Andy Cavatorta

Media Lab alum Andy Cavatorta talks to Slice of MIT about his kinetic sculpture "Whale," on display at MIT Museum.
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New Faculty Appointments: Fall 2024

The MIT Media Lab is excited to welcome two new visionary faculty members starting September 2024: Behnaz Farahi and Paul Liang. Both will …
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SXSW 2025 PanelPicker Proposals

Explore the Media Lab community’s PanelPicker proposals!
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These mobile games are for the birds

Alum Rébecca Kleinberger (Opera of the Future) considers ways of building games that work for birds' unique needs.
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Splat Sketches

​​​In my art practice, I am always looking to explore the intersection where the human body meets the frontier of digital representation. P…
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AI and Textiles: It’s already here

In an interview with Textile Technology Source, Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about the use of AI in the textiles industry.
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The Media Lab at the 2024 Core77 Design Awards

Congratulations to the winners and honorees of the 2024 Core77 Design Awards!
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Behnaz Farahi joins MIT Media Lab Media Arts + Sciences Program as Assistant Professor, Transformative Design

Behnaz Farahi joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) as Assistant Professor, Transformative…
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Living Knitwork Pavilion receives special mention at Architizer A+ Awards

It was recognized in the Plus: Architecture +Innovation category
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Convergence: Artistic Explorations from Nature to Society Exhibition at NARLabs

Convergence: Artistic Exploration from Nature to SocietyNARLabs, Taipei, Taiwan May 10 - August 10, 2024 Guided by the Taiwa…
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Tod Machover receives honorary doctorate of letters from Colgate University

Professor Machover also held a commencement seminar, titled "Sound Futures: How Music and Technology Will Shape AI, Health, and Community.”
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I know how the caged bird jams

Media Lab alum Rébecca Kleinberger, who’s now a professor at Northeastern University, talks about her work on sonic enrichment in zoos.
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Dexter Callender III awarded 2024 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

Callender was awarded this prize for his body of work, Light Sculptures, Matters of Impermanence.
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Hector Astrom wins 2024 Outstanding UROP Award

The award recognizes MIT undergraduates who have made outstanding contributions as undergraduate researchers within their field.
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MIT Arts Startup Incubator finalist: Hex House

Hex House was co-founded by Char Stiles, a master's student in the Future Sketches research group.
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Weaving memory into textiles

For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, who has collaborated with the Media Lab's Future Sketches group, fabric itself tells the story.
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Seven from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2024

The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.
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Illuminate named 2024 Webby Award honoree

Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.
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At the Venice Biennale, the German Pavilion Undergoes a Transformation

Nicole L'Huillier, an alum of the Opera of the Future group, is collaborating on a sound installation at this year's Venice Biennale.
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The creative future of generative AI

Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.
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MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2023 Brings Dreams to Life

Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
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MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2024: A Leap Forward in Creative Innovation

The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
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Xin Liu wins inaugural K11 Artist Prize

Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.