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Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy

​Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
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'@artbhot' - Towards a Creative Partner on Social Media

@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations.  Access…
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AI Alchemy Lab

Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
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Does dream inception work?

Using Dormio, a project from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces research group, poet Will Dowd set out to pioneer a new reading experience.
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The Stranger - .... . ... - .-. .- -. --. . .-.

​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…
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Prismo - Transformable floor lamp based on prismatic structure

Prismo lamp is designed and constructed based on a classical example of the prismatic structure. It takes advantage of the periodic and spa…
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Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
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Gaka-chu: a self-employed autonomous robot artist

E. C. Ferrer, I. Berman, A. Kapitonov, V. Manaenko, M. Chernyaev and P. Tarasov, "Gaka-Chu: A Self-Employed Autonomous Robot Artist," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 11583-11589, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160866.
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VALIS: 2023 Production

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…
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Crafting the technology of the future: Irmandy Wicaksono

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks to Society of Craft about his work, which blends engineering with fabric arts.
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Making movement visible

Media Lab alum Nell Breyer discusses her new work, “Where Lines Converge,” previously on view in Manhattan’s Central Synagogue.
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Irmandy Wicaksono on the Create The Future podcast

Irmandy Wicaksono from the Media Lab's Response Environments group discusses innovations and ancient wisdoms to be found in arts & crafts.
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Behind the veil of hypnagogic sleep

Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz discusses using “dream engineering” techniques to give people more control over their dreams.
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Generative AI for makers: AI has truly arrived — and it’s here to help you make and craft

Personal Robots alum Stefania Druga and editor Keith Hammond explore the ways that crafters and makers can use generative AI techniques.
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TeleAbsence: Communicating Across Time

This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).
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Ekene Ijeoma has removed all bad design from his life (except for streets)

Professor Ekene Ijeoma talks to Curbed about art, design, and how he uses technology to speak to social and political issues.
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“MIT Illuminations,” a colorful installation and introduction to creative computation, is now open in Kendall Square

“MIT Illuminations” showcases the creative coding work of MIT community members, including Media Lab alumni.
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Is the panic over AI art overblown? We speak with artists and experts.

Lawsuits over the development and use of AI tools can have huge implications on the creative process and intellectual property ownership.
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MAS.S64 City Sci-fi : student projects Spring 2023

Final projects created in MAS.S64 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities.Students were prompted to …
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Illuminate

Gallery of images of the interactive art installation: Illuminate.Artwork by Chelsi Alise Cocking of the Future Sketches group. Photography…
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Microgravity Extrusion

Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gravi…
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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
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The Stranger -........ -.-..- -. –...-.

Kyung Yun Choi and Hiroshi Ishii. 2023. The Stranger -........ -.-..- -. –...-. In Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 74–76. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3596648
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aSpire: Breathing in Sync Toward Interpersonal Connectedness

Under the sky of this blue planet, we borrow the air from the Earth and release them again, repurpose and rearrange the element of it. We a…
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If art is how we express our humanity, where does AI fit in?

MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Festival of Learning

An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
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Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
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MAS.S64 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities

This class is a hands-on workshop on fiction narrative and movie making.
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Targeted Dream Incubation

Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
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Grain Prism

The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touch …
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With the HUMANS project, a message that space is for everyone

Supported by the Space Exploration Initiative, the student-run HUMANS project aims to increase global representation in space.
How computational tools help to capture, visualize, and analyze human experiences.
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MIT Museum Collection Highlights: Holography

Explore the MIT Museum's collection of holograms, which includes examples of the rainbow holograms developed by Stephen Benton.
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…
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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle
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Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
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‘Overstory Overture’ – Tod Machover’s upcoming music magic at Lincoln Center

Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future, talks about his career, his creative approach, and his latest work, "Overstory Overture".
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Q&A: Tod Machover on “Overstory Overture,” his new operatic work

Tod Machover, head of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group, talks to MIT News about his new operatic work, "Overstory Overture.".
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MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2023 Brings Dreams to Life

Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
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E Ink’s latest color displays have me dreaming of electronic paper magazines

Media Lab spinoff E Ink’s new generation of color displays were introduced at CES 2023.
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What would true diversity sound like?

Ekene Ijeoma uses audio of people counting from 1 to 100 in a variety of languages to capture the full diversity of voices across the US.
Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Unveiling the Invisible

Tamiko Thiel, an innovator in VR/AR who studied computer graphics and visual imaging, talks about her work and her career.
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Creating a sense of feeling

Biomedical engineer and dancer Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20 explores connections between the human body and the outside world.
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Using game engines and “twins” to co-create stories of climate futures

Ceasar McDowell, among others, spoke to participants at the WORLDING workshop on “Land-Use Planning and Authorship."
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The weird and wonderful art created when AI and humans unite

Alum Alexander Reben describes his experience making art with algorithms and considers what the future of the field may bring.
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Welcome to the MIT Museum’s ‘spiffy’ new digs in Kendall Square

The museum’s director, John Durant, talks about the new location and installations including Media Lab alum Andy Cavatorta’s sculpture.
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Documentary featuring Professor Sara Seager wins Emmy Award

Four Emmy nominees in this year’s Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category feature MIT students, faculty, and alumni.
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Artist Ani Liu has some radical suggestions for what pregnancy could look like: It begins with artificial wombs

The artist's incisive exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery addresses the biological and political realities of childbearing and rearing.
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Interview with Jacob Collier: It's proper special

Grammy Award-winning artist Jacob Collier talks to Opera of the Future alum Andy Hong about music and technology.
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How AI-generated art is changing the concept of art itself

Critics, practitioners, and researchers like Human Dynamics PhD student Ziv Epstein talk about AI-generated art..
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“Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air”: On growing up Muslim in America

Six MIT students, including Biomechatronics student Ayse Guvenilir, share their thoughts on belonging, identity, love, and MIT itself.
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MIT welcomes eight MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2022-23

MLK Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.
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Breathing Architecture

Ekene Ijeoma's Breathing Pavilion installation explores the power and meaning of breath.
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AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
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Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts