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Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
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.
Composed by Kimaya Lecamwasam and performed by Jessica Shand and Charlie Lovell-Jones on April 3, 2023. A preliminary d…
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
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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
Do you hear the sound of a breath, or an ocean wave? A heartbeat, or thunder? Journey through a universe of shifting sonic identities …
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
This project examines how the expression granted by new musical interfaces can be harnessed to create positive changes in health and wellbe…
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.
This research explores how acoustic environments can elicit awe and wonder emotions, and how such experiences can contribute to restoration…
Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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 supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
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…
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
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
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Media Lab alum Rébecca Kleinberger, who’s now a professor at Northeastern University, talks about her work on sonic enrichment in zoos.
The MAD Fellowship is an opportunity for MIT grad students to propose a research-oriented or personal design project.
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
Read more about the premiere of “Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts” in the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts
At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades
The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.
The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS reboots for a new generation
The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
Addae received the award for VocalCords, which was developed as part of his master's thesis at the Media Lab.
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
Songs released on music streaming services are static, never changing after their initial release. Evolving Media proposes a content p…
The internet changed how we create, distribute, and consume music and media. Modern digital tools for creating music and media …
Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…
Alum Akito van Troyer, who's now an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, talks about finding the music in everyday objects.
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about incorporating his research on interactive textiles into the Living Knitwork Pavilion.
By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi MishraCode Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Pr…
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
Dr. Alaa Algargoosh received the award for her research on how acoustic experiences can affect wellbeing.
Designing for, with, and by nature
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
Tod Machover was full of praise for the young singers who gave his opera Schoenberg in Hollywood its first public performance in China
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
The Joy Branch project explores different user interfaces to allow parrots to shape their sonic environment. Animal agency—contr…
Professor Tod Machover talks to the Boston Musical Intelligencer about updating VALIS for its first live performance in almost 30 years.
In an interview with Chamber Music America, Media Lab Professor Tod Machover talks about AI and music.
The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.
Opera of the Future PhD candidate Nicole L'Huillier discusses her multimedia artwork with WBUR.
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…