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Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is interfa…
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.
Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes
Throughout the ages bioluminescence has inspired myths. Long ago, sailors in the Indian Ocean encountered massive bioluminescent blooms as …
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…
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—reMi—…
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.
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.
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.
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.
We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine art…
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 c…
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.
Xin Liu discusses the Space Exploration Initiative's upcoming arts exhibition at Ars Electronica
Click looks at whether AI could ever create an artistic masterpiece.
“A few years ago, I was flipping through a fashion magazine and saw that Beyoncé had these cool metallic temporary tattoos."
Cool things happen when you control water with a computer.
The first use-case for programmable droplets is a kind of automated painters' palette.
Suffering for art took on frigid new meaning for composer Tod Machover while creating his new symphony for the Philadelphia Orchestra.
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
Nothing triggers memories like smell. Momentary, fleeting, and at times unexpected, one scent can conjure up the warmth of a grandparent, …
Biomolecules to biopolitics: hormones with institutional biopower! Open Source Estrogen combines do-it-yourself science, body and gender po…
I am currently creating perfumes that capture the smell of individuals who have emotional significance to me. An exploration in the use of…
The reproductive organs of the female body have long been a site of contention, where opposing ideologies in religion, politics, and cultur…
Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
Glass II: 3D printing glass at the architectural scale.
Head of MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter research group teamed up with Björk to create 3D-printed wearables of the singer's face
The MIT Media Lab collaborated with London-based theater group Punchdrunk to create an online platform connected to their New York City pro…
Fensadense is a new work for 10-piece ensemble composed by Tod Machover, commissioned for the Lucerne Festival in summer 2015. The project …
Architect
Ever heard of 'remote and real world interconnected theatrical immersion'? Punchdrunk's Peter Higgin explains all
Come with me. I've got something to show you.
How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.