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Three members of the Media Lab community have received grants as part of MIT CAST’s 2025–26 projects.
Co-creating future imaginaries in the heart of the Amazon, blending fieldwork, local knowledge, and new media for creative expression.
The skirt pictured was designed using an encoding-decoding framework for Islamic art-inspired “constellation patterns,” developed by Rebecc…
A series of explorations in integrated development environments (IDEs) for graphical creative coding.
AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
Accepted at UIST25With rising climate change and e-waste, BioLIG introduces a technique to functionalize bio-based materials through laser-…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Schon, Ana. 2025. “Performing Performance Spaces: Expressing Context in Live Music.” Master’s Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
Char Stiles debuted "Fastest Integer Multiplier" at Amant Gallery's "For Your Reference." This performance used a custom tool CARL&nbs…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
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
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.
Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …
MIT concert, featuring electronic and computer-generated music, was a part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference.
Raechel Walker and Cynthia Breazeal awarded Best Paper at RESPECT 2025 for work linking data science, youth organizing, and education.
As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
The ninth edition of the Teaching with Digital Technology Awards includes MIT Media Lab instructor Zachary Lieberman.
MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
What if we could look at the entire history of humanity at once? Pantheon aims to create a data-driven view of history by collecting, …
Lecamwasam, K., Bartleet, B. L., Ortiz, T., & Koebner, I. (2025). Promoting the well-being of infants and caregivers through music: insights from the lullaby project’s international convening. Arts & Health, 1-11.
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
Lecamwasam, K. and Chaudhuri, T.R. (2025). Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02856
For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, who has collaborated with the Media Lab's Future Sketches group, fabric itself tells the story.
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Zachary Lieberman receives 2025 Digital Art Award for his pioneering creative coding and innovation in new media art.
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…
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
A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
Prof. Craig Carter’s precision design for a student-led project now on the moon encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer
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…
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…
@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations. Access…
An exploration of how advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
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…
My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
In my art practice, I am always looking to explore the intersection where the human body meets the frontier of digital representation. P…
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.
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…
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…