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The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Exhibition: The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology Location: Palazzo Diedo, Venezia | May 10 – November 23, 2025Earth and Planetary…
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
The Imaginary Atlas, Brazil explores new urban futures for cities in the heart of Brazil’s forests. In partnership with traditional communi…
@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations. Access…
Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
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…
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
This project transforms light into glass sculptures. I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
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…
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…
As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn is set to premier at the 11th Asia Pacific Tr…
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
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…
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…
Playing the Room is an audio technology project that explores the relationship between music performance and physical space, as well as wit…
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
FibeRobo is a novel body-temperature shape-changing fiber based on liquid crystal elastomers. The development of a new fabrication techniqu…
What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
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…
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Char Stiles debuted "Fastest Integer Multiplier" at Amant Gallery's "For Your Reference." This performance used a custom tool CARL&nbs…
This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes. All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…
FrameGrabber is a simple, browser-based tool that lets the user upload an animation and convert it to a grid of stills.
Future Sketches installed a group exhibition as part of Zach Lieberman's Future Sketches / Code Poems show at Artechouse, which opened duri…
By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi MishraCode Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Pr…
Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
Science is not just about discovery; it’s an art of communication too.In this project, we are exploring how complex scientific topics can b…
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…
Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…
FlowIO is the first fully-integrated and truly general-purpose, miniature pneumatics development platform for control, actuation, and sensi…
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
Can you ever be what you say and say what you are?Can your speech genuinely represent yourself and convey your thoughts and meaning?Does y…
The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touch …
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…
With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…
Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by show…