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Urban Mining & Regenerative E-Waste Ecosystems

How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
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VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction with the Singing Voice

The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
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Black Forest

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…
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Imaginary Atlas, Brazil
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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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Computer-Aided Synthesis

An exploration of how  advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
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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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Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
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THEME | Urban Futures of the Amazon

Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
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MIT engineers prepare to send three payloads to the moon

Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
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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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Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

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…
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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MM-RT

MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce soun…
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The Interview: Carsten Höller + Adam Haar

Alum Adam Haar and artist Carsten Höller talk about the Dream Hotel—a collaboration that began with Höller’s 2021 MIT CAST residency.
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A Dream Hotel with Carsten Höller

We are working with MIT CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller to build prototypes for a Dream Hotel museum exhibition which will translate ex…
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Data Activism Program

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…
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Splat Sketches

​​​In my art practice, I am always looking to explore the intersection where the human body meets the frontier of digital representation. P…
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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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KnitworkVR

KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
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Light Sculptures

This project transforms light into glass sculptures.  I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
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Spirit of Blobs: Artist Zachary Lieberman in conversation

Media Lab Professor Zach Lieberman talks about his artistic practice, his daily digital sketches, and his approach to new technologies.
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Living Knitwork Pavilion

One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
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How new science fiction could help us improve AI

In Scientific American, Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn and others consider the ways that art shapes our understanding of and interactions with AI.
How software can act as an assistant rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and proactively anticipating the user's needs
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Crossroads

Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
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Living Memories: AI-generated characters as interactive digital mementos

In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…
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ColloGraphy

ColloGraphy (colloquy+calligraphy) is a tangible way to interact and communicate with another person from a different time, whether a loved…
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Collective Echos

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
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The Distance Between Us

Composed by Kimaya Lecamwasam and performed by Jessica Shand and Charlie Lovell-Jones on April 3, 2023. A preliminary d…
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A whale’s tale from artist Andy Cavatorta

Media Lab alum Andy Cavatorta talks to Slice of MIT about his kinetic sculpture "Whale," on display at MIT Museum.
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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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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A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
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AstroAnt

"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
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Tomorrow's Typography

This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …
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The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell

The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn is set to premier at the 11th Asia Pacific Tr…
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Seven from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2024

The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.
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Capturing the Moon: Assessing virtual reality for remote Lunar geological fieldwork

Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
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ORGANOLOGY: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis

Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
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Methods of Visually Translating Reality

August 4 – 7 (SUN  – TUE), 20249–11:00pm EDTThis is an online 4-day workshop consisting of software tutorials and rapid prototyping. P…
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Dexter Callender III awarded 2024 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

Callender was awarded this prize for his body of work, Light Sculptures, Matters of Impermanence.
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To Lunar Gravity and Back: What reduced gravity flights can teach us about our future in space

The Space Exploration Initiative’s 2022 microgravity flight features lunar-specific payloads in advance of an upcoming moon mission
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Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
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The Media Lab at the 2024 Core77 Design Awards

Congratulations to the winners and honorees of the 2024 Core77 Design Awards!
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Emerging Worlds

Emerging Worlds
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Stochastic Self-Assembly via Magnetically Programmed Materials

By Martin NisserThe ability to deploy large space structures is key to enabling long-duration and long-distance space missions, supporting …
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Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming

Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
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Living Knitwork Pavilion receives special mention at Architizer A+ Awards

It was recognized in the Plus: Architecture +Innovation category
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An artist in residence on AI's territory

Media Lab alum Alexander Reben has been named as OpenAI’s first artist in residence.
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Convergence: Artistic Explorations from Nature to Society Exhibition at NARLabs

Convergence: Artistic Exploration from Nature to SocietyNARLabs, Taipei, Taiwan May 10 - August 10, 2024 Guided by the Taiwa…
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Aerospace Gondola at Venice Biennale Arte 2024

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…
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SkeleText: Skeletonization of Typefaces

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…
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Illuminate named 2024 Webby Award honoree

Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.
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Playing the Room

Playing the Room is an audio technology project that explores the relationship between music performance and physical space, as well as wit…
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MIT Arts Startup Incubator finalist: Hex House

Hex House was co-founded by Char Stiles, a master's student in the Future Sketches research group.
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▓▒░ TeleAbsence

People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
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FibeRobo: Fabricating 4D Fiber Interfaces by Continuous Drawing of Temperature Tunable Fibers

FibeRobo is a novel body-temperature shape-changing fiber based on liquid crystal elastomers. The development of a new fabrication techniqu…
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At the Venice Biennale, the German Pavilion Undergoes a Transformation

Nicole L'Huillier, an alum of the Opera of the Future group, is collaborating on a sound installation at this year's Venice Biennale.
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The creative future of generative AI

Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.