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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

Tod Machover Honored as Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters

Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist

We welcome applicants with research and teaching interests aligned with the Media Lab mission to create transformative tech and experiences.

Media Lab students and alums are among the winners and honorees for the 2024 MIT Prize for Open Data.

The contributions spotlighted aim to get kids excited about, and more proficient in, STEM.

The Notable Children’s Digital Media list recognizes real-time, dynamic, and interactive media content for children 14 years of age.

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

Explore the Media Lab community’s PanelPicker proposals!

​​​In my art practice, I am always looking to explore the intersection where the human body meets the frontier of digital representation. P…

Congratulations to the winners and honorees of the 2024 Core77 Design Awards!

Behnaz Farahi joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) as Assistant Professor, Transformative…

It was recognized in the Plus: Architecture +Innovation category

Convergence: Artistic Exploration from Nature to SocietyNARLabs, Taipei, Taiwan May 10 - August 10, 2024 Guided by the Taiwa…

Professor Machover also held a commencement seminar, titled "Sound Futures: How Music and Technology Will Shape AI, Health, and Community.”

Callender was awarded this prize for his body of work, Light Sculptures, Matters of Impermanence.

The award recognizes MIT undergraduates who have made outstanding contributions as undergraduate researchers within their field.

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

For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, who has collaborated with the Media Lab's Future Sketches group, fabric itself tells the story.

The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.

Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.

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

Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association

The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.

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

This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.

Addae received the award for VocalCords, which was developed as part of his master's thesis at the Media Lab.

Arts in Tech Podcast based in Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University Interviews Char Stiles from Future Sketches

Cultivating creativity on a broad scale requires expertise that cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Dr. Alaa Algargoosh received the award for her research on how acoustic experiences can affect wellbeing.

Wishing you a holiday season filled with love, peace, and joy of discovery.

The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.

Tod Machover was full of praise for the young singers who gave his opera Schoenberg in Hollywood its first public performance in China

Democratizing access to space.

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people.

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation.

Engaging people in creative learning experiences.

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium.

Designing systems for cognitive support

Looking beyond smart cities.

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical Monitoring

(Dis)Appearables is an approach for actuated Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) to appear and disappear.

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in Being. Creative. Together.