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Congratulations to Fluid Interfaces alum Anirudh Sharma and his spinoff Graviky Labs!
The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touc...
Bernal, Guillermo, Lily Zhou, Haripriya Mehta, and Pattie Maes. NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, December 14, 2019.
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
Berke, A., Sanchez Lengeling, T., Nawyn, J., & Larson, K. (2019, November). Bike Swarm. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1-4). ACM.
“[The wild boars] look at me like I am a visitor. It's like they’re the owners and I’m the guest. Wild animals that normally live in natu...
Please help Poetic Justice create an artwork that includes all the communities, voices, and languages of NYC.
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow Prathima Muniyappa uses the transformative power of design to empower marginalized indigenous communities.
“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” ...
CE 2.0
Creating technology for social change
Transforming data into knowledge
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and durin...
"Loops" combines the work of the Lab's Synthetic Characters group, Merce Cunningham, and digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar. ...
Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar collaborated on Loops, an exploration of Merce Cunningham's life and work.
Advancing Wellbeing
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
An exhibition at the Barbican in London features work from OpenAg, the Mediated Matter group, Joy Buolamwini, and more.
David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.
SFMOMA has announced that Neri Oxman will receive a prestigious award this fall
Gemini—an acoustical “twin chaise"—spans multiple scales of the human existence extending from the warmth of the womb to the stretches ...
The Dezeen Awards 2019 design longlist includes two projects from the Mediated Matter group.
Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
Postdoc Dan Novy on SciFi-preneurship, a summer series from the All Turtles Podcast.
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, ho...
MIT’s residence hall for women and women-identifying students opens a craft studio to promote creativity and belonging.
Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
About 45 minutes of diesel car pollution reaps 30 milliliters of AIR-INK, now on display at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
A group at MIT created polymers derived from organic matter, printed by a robot, and shaped by water.
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that ...
Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes
The projects on board the Media Lab's first suborbital rocket flight
Throughout the ages bioluminescence has inspired myths. Long ago, sailors in the Indian Ocean encountered massive bioluminescent blooms a...
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...
Kyung Yun Choi, Darle Shinsato, Shane Zhang, Ken Nakagaki, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2018. reMi: Translating Ambient Sounds of Moment into Tangible and Shareable Memories through Animated Paper. In The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings (UIST '18 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 84-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3266037.3266109
Translating ambient sounds of moment into tangible and shareable memories through animated paperWe present a tangible memory notebook—reM...
They feed data sets into special algorithms to create canvases; they’re showing at art events around the world.
Bauhaus meets binary: an oral history of the Visible Language Workshop.
How the Mediated Matter group’s Aguahoja project transforms some of the most abundant materials on the planet into structural art.
Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is every...
Research projects show creative ways MIT students are connecting computing to other fields.
Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure AI serves the public good.
ArtBoat is a tool for communities to make collaborative light paintings in public spaces and reimagine the future of their cities. ...
In a fact-averse culture, this New York and Boston-based artist/designer brings them to the fore with his MIT group Poetic Justice.
MIT affiliates collaborate with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Microsoft to improve the connection between people and art.
BBC Click looks at whether AI could ever create an artistic masterpiece.
César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.
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...
As we know from our ‘maker’ classes and workshops, different capabilities and approaches can yield remarkable projects. Let’s facilitate ...
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
A selection of recent press coverage on Tod Machover's newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood.
Emerging Worlds
Karole Armitage, the distinguished choreographer, is directing the world premiere of 'Schoenberg in Hollywood,' composed by Tod Machover.
With advances in virtual reality (VR) and physiological sensing technology, even more immersive computer-mediated communication through l...
We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine a...
Interaction Design category
Philadelphia Voices is the latest in the series of City Symphonies projects that Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have...
In “Gradient Descent,” now on view at Nature Morte gallery in New Delhi, artists become one with machines—and the results are stunning.
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
The flag is a fixed object of the past which needs to become more fluid and in conversation with our present.