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This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).
AI Interplay: Gamifying AI ResearchAI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a ne…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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
Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
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…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce soun…
Alum Adam Haar and artist Carsten Höller talk about the Dream Hotel—a collaboration that began with Höller’s 2021 MIT CAST residency.
We are working with MIT CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller to build prototypes for a Dream Hotel museum exhibition which will translate ex…
In my art practice, I am always looking to explore the intersection where the human body meets the frontier of digital representation. P…
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Enhancing human physical capability
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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…
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
This project transforms light into glass sculptures. I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
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
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
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
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
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…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
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.