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InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
Lecamwasam, K.H.M. (2023). Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Anxiety Disorders and Well-Being. Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
Char Stiles debuted "Fastest Integer Multiplier" at Amant Gallery's "For Your Reference." This performance used a custom tool CARL&nbs…
Alum Akito van Troyer, who's now an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, talks about finding the music in everyday objects.
This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes. All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about incorporating his research on interactive textiles into the Living Knitwork Pavilion.
MORF FORM is a knitted animation piece on display at the Future Sketches room at ARTECHOUSE in Miami Beach.
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…
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
36 Days Of Type is an initiative that invites creatives to create their version of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet, one…
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…
Final projects created in MAS.S66 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures, taught in Fall 20…
City Sci-fi // Fall 2023 A City Science workshopFIRST CLASS: September 13th (WED) - 2pm, E15-359Instructors:&n…
Arts in Tech Podcast based in Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University Interviews Char Stiles from Future Sketches
If you’ve ever touched a plasma globe— those glowing orbs full of electrical fire—you’ve experienced the work of Media Lab alum Bill Parker.
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…
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
For Design Milk’s Friday Five, Media Lab alum Alexis Hope shares the work of five of her favorite designers.
Designing for, with, and by nature
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
Gallery of images of the interactive art installation: Illuminate.Artwork by Chelsi Alise Cocking of the Future Sketches group. Photography…
The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
Final projects created in MAS.S64 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities.Students were prompted to …
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
This project explores a few computational approaches to use the shape of a knitted garment as input for its pattern.This experiment combin…
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design space.…
Aguahoja II builds upon the platform technology of its predecessor, enabling large-scale multi-material 3D printing with abundant, organic …
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.
We explore an art form where machines take on an essential role in the aesthetics and processes of the creation. Our main theme can be summ…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
Researchers at the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms have created plate lattices that are lighter than cork and highly customizable.
Professor Tod Machover talks to the Boston Musical Intelligencer about updating VALIS for its first live performance in almost 30 years.
Xin Liu, an alum of the Fluid Interfaces group and collaborator with the Space Exploration Initiative, talks to Artnet about her practice.
Researchers from the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms are using techniques from kirigami to create strong, lightweight metal structures.
Using kirigami techniques, researchers at the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms have created complex metal structures that are lighter than cork.
The series was initially inspired by the work of Ernst Haeckel.
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.
Robert Mahari, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, and other experts talk to Inside Higher Ed about copyright & generative AI tools.
In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…
David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.
With Ghost in the Machine, alum Misha Sra and collaborator Purav Bhardwaj invite participants to consider the anthropomorphization of AI,
Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…
EBIFA (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) is a crystalline robotic device that carried a tooth to outer space. EBIFA's form and fu…
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…
This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that co…
Opera of the Future PhD candidate Nicole L'Huillier discusses her multimedia artwork with WBUR.
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
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…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
Aguahoja III expands the capabilities of a broad library of sustainable, organic 3D materials with generative patterns that countervail str…
As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deeper …
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Postdoc Ziv Epstein, PhD student Robert Mahari, & Harvard Law lecturer Jessica Fjeld consider the issues of generative AI and copyright law.
In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…