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Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
This project transforms light into glass sculptures. I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Media Lab Professor Zach Lieberman talks about his artistic practice, his daily digital sketches, and his approach to new technologies.
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
In Scientific American, Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn and others consider the ways that art shapes our understanding of and interactions with AI.
Looking beyond smart cities
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Enhancing human physical capability
Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…
ColloGraphy (colloquy+calligraphy) is a tangible way to interact and communicate with another person from a different time, whether a loved…
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
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.
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Composed by Kimaya Lecamwasam and performed by Jessica Shand and Charlie Lovell-Jones on April 3, 2023. A preliminary d…
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
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Media Lab alum Andy Cavatorta talks to Slice of MIT about his kinetic sculpture "Whale," on display at MIT Museum.
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…
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…
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …
The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn is set to premier at the 11th Asia Pacific Tr…
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
August 4 – 7 (SUN – TUE), 20249–11:00pm EDTThis is an online 4-day workshop consisting of software tutorials and rapid prototyping. P…
Callender was awarded this prize for his body of work, Light Sculptures, Matters of Impermanence.
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
The Space Exploration Initiative’s 2022 microgravity flight features lunar-specific payloads in advance of an upcoming moon mission
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
We are working with MIT CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller to build prototypes for a Dream Hotel museum exhibition which will translate ex…
Congratulations to the winners and honorees of the 2024 Core77 Design Awards!
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…
Emerging Worlds
By Martin NisserThe ability to deploy large space structures is key to enabling long-duration and long-distance space missions, supporting …
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
It was recognized in the Plus: Architecture +Innovation category
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Media Lab alum Alexander Reben has been named as OpenAI’s first artist in residence.
Convergence: Artistic Exploration from Nature to SocietyNARLabs, Taipei, Taiwan May 10 - August 10, 2024 Guided by the Taiwa…
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…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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…
Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.
Playing the Room is an audio technology project that explores the relationship between music performance and physical space, as well as wit…
Hex House was co-founded by Char Stiles, a master's student in the Future Sketches research group.