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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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Space Enabled

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

Looking beyond smart cities
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From Lab to Living Room: Gamifying AI Research

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

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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To the Moon to Stay: MIT Lunar Mission Launch 2025

With a launch date no earlier than February 26, 2025, three MIT research payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will travel to the moon
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Urban Mining & Regenerative E-Waste Ecosystems

How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
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VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction with the Singing Voice

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

Black Forest is a participatory public artwork collecting the names and stories of Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. and planting tr…
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Imaginary Atlas, Brazil
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Imaginary Atlas, Brazil

The Imaginary Atlas, Brazil explores new urban futures for cities in the heart of Brazil’s forests. In partnership with traditional communi…
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'@artbhot' - Towards a Creative Partner on Social Media

@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations.  Access…
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Computer-Aided Synthesis

An exploration of how  advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Responsive Environments

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

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

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

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

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Understanding impacts of companion chatbots on loneliness and socialization

Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
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TeleAbsence: Communicating Across Time

This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).
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Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
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MIT engineers prepare to send three payloads to the moon

Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
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Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

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…
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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MM-RT

MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce soun…
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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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A Dream Hotel with Carsten Höller

We are working with MIT CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller to build prototypes for a Dream Hotel museum exhibition which will translate ex…
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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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Festival of Learning

An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
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KnitworkVR

KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
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Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances

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

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Light Sculptures

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

One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
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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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Open Dance Lab: Digital Platform for Examining, Experimenting, and Evolving Intangible Cultural Data

We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
How software can act as an assistant rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and proactively anticipating the user's needs
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Crossroads

Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
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Living Memories: AI-generated characters as interactive digital mementos

In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…
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ColloGraphy

ColloGraphy (colloquy+calligraphy) is a tangible way to interact and communicate with another person from a different time, whether a loved…
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Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances

Blanchard, Lancelot*, Perry Naseck*, Eran Egozy, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2024. “Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.69c11de7.
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Collective Echos

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

Composed by Kimaya Lecamwasam and performed by Jessica Shand and Charlie Lovell-Jones on April 3, 2023. A preliminary d…
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The Distance Between Us: Exploring the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit Through the Soundscape of Biometric Monitoring

Kimaya Lecamwasam. 2024. The Distance Between Us: Exploring the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit Through the Soundscape of Biometric Monitoring. In Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures (AM '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 533–542. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678299.3678355
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Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Mental Health

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

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…
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