Event

FAST Light: Celebrate Art, Science and Technology at MIT

LocationMIT Campus Description

Saturday — Monday
May 7, 2011 —
May 9, 2011
Event

Symposium: Frontiers in Science, Technology, and the Arts

The program will showcase research, artistic collaborations, and innovations from across disciplines.

Article

Art, Science, Technology Inspires Walt Disney Imagineers at MIT Media Lab Event

“Happiness makes the world go round."

Article

HubWeek 2019 celebrates five years of connecting MIT, Boston, and the world

Greater Boston’s annual festival of ideas finds new avenues for celebrating and connecting innovators.

Article

MIT celebrates 50th anniversary of historic moon landing

Symposium featuring former astronauts and other Apollo mission luminaries examines the program’s legacy.

Publication

Art and the science of generative AI

Epstein, Hertzmann, et al. "Art and the science of generative AI." Science 380.6650 (2023): 1110-1111.

Article

MIT’s visiting artist envisions floating, 3D-printed sculptures lighter than air

Thom Kubli, in collaboration with the Tangible Media group, on the development of a machine that can 3D print objects light enough to float.

Article

At delta v Demo Day, the MIT community celebrates student entrepreneurs

The 2021 event, held in Kresge Auditorium and streamed live, was an unmistakable sign that MIT’s campus is up and running.

Post

Spring 2024 Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Spring 2024 semester

Article

MIT Legal Forum 2017: The future of lawyers and technology

This October, MIT celebrated the inaugural MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain which aimed to provide a space in which legal professiona…

Post

Fall 2023 Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Fall 2023 semester

Post

Spring 2022 Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Spring 2022 semester

Video

#54 FAST

A chain reaction between the arts and the sciences, MIT’s Festival of Art, Science and Technology was a year-long celebration of creativity…

Article

Seamlessly weaving textile art, culture, and technology in the Living Knitwork Pavilion

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.

Publication

Fast Lighting Independent Background Subtraction

Yuri A. Ivanov, Aaron F. Bobick, John Liu

Post

MIT spinoffs listed among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2023

Media Lab spinoff Sourcemap and MIT spinoff Overjet have been listed among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.

Post

Spring 2023 Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Spring 2023 semester

Post

City Science Lab @ Shanghai to continue cooperation with MIT City Science and the City Science Network

Representatives from the City Science Lab @ Shanghai (Tongji University) visited the MIT Media Lab to sign a continuation of their cooperat…

Article

Stephen Benton; his holograms melded science, art, commerce

"Steve brought a joy and spirit of inventiveness to all that he did."

Post

Fall 2020 Media Arts and Sciences Course List

A listing of academic offerings during Fall 2020 at the Media Lab.

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2021 Spring Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the spring 2021 semester

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2019 Fall Media Arts and Sciences Course List

PROGRAM IN MEDIA ARTS AND SCIENCES,  FALL 2019Full MIT class schedule online at MIT Office of the RegistrarUNDERGRADUATE SUBJECT LISTI…

Post

Art, Science, and the Media Lab

The following are Andy Lippman's opening remarks from the Media Lab's spring 2017 member meeting.

Post

Fall 2021 Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Fall 2021 semester

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Algorithmic Justice League among Fast Company's most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2020/2021

The AJL, a nonprofit founded by alum Joy Buolamwini, is one of the 10 most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2020/2021.

Post

2019 Spring Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Academic offerings at the Media Lab.

Post

2020 Spring Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the spring 2020 semester

Article

Michael Hawley, former professor of media arts and sciences, dies at 58

A modern-day Renaissance man, Hawley pioneered the internet of things and won the Van Cliburn amateur piano competition.

Post

Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.

Article

Mitchell, New Head of MIT Media Lab Program in Media Arts and Sciences, to Step Down as Architecture Dean

Post

Neil Gaikwad recognized by MIT and University of Chicago

Named Human Rights & Technology Fellow by MIT Center for International Studies, and a Rising Star by UChicago Center for Data & Computing.

Post

Fall 2016 Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Learn more about academic program options at the Media Lab.

Article

Arts at MIT Reviews June 3 Exhibit and Show at Media Lab: Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future

Arts at MIT covers the performance for Danielle Wood's course Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future.

Event

Computers & Creativity: The Intersection of Art and Technology

LocationMedia Lab, Bartos Theatre, E15 Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) High-Low Tech

Wednesday — Tuesday
March 9, 2011 —
March 8, 2011
Project

MAS.S90: Introduction to Media Arts and Sciences

In collaboration with graduate students from across the Media Lab, the Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio has helped to develop MAS.S9…

Post

Danielle Wood Wins MIT's "Teaching with Digital Technology" Award

Danielle Wood was selected as a 2023 winner of MIT's Teaching with Digital Technology Award.

Publication

Architecting complex international science, technology and innovation partnerships (CISTIPs): A study of four global MIT collaborations

Pfotenhauer, S., Wood, D., Roos, D., and D. Newman, “Architecting complex international science, technology and innovation partnerships (CISTIPs): A study of four global MIT collaborations,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol 104, March 2016, Pages 38-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2015.12.006

Article

STEM Week event encourages students to see themselves in science and technology careers

MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.

Post

Shuguang Zhang elected to European Academy of Sciences and Arts

The Academy’s mission is to stimulate cross-disciplinary scientists of all disciplines, leading artists, and practitioners of governance.

Article

Lighting the path

Luminaries in computing and cognition discuss their journeys and share their insights.

Group

City Science

The City Science research group proposes that new strategies must be found to create the places where people live and work in addition to t…

Publication

Counterpoint: Artificial legs do not make artificially fast running speeds possible

R. Kram, A. M. Grabowski, C. P. McGowan, M. B. Brown, and H. M. Herr. Counterpoint: Artificial legs do not make artificially fast running speeds possible, Journal of Applied Physiology, vol. 108, no. 4, pp. 1012–1014, Apr. 2010.

Event

UdeG and MIT City Science Signing Ceremony

On December 10th, 2019 leadership from the MIT City Science group and the University of Guadalajara met to sign a three year cooperation ag…

Tuesday
December 10, 2019
10:00am — 2:00pm ET
Video

#56 LightBridge

LightBridge is a 10,000 pixel dynamic display created for the FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology in celebration of MIT’s 150th an…

Publication

Making Sense of Helices: Right and Wrong Models in Science and Art

Martin Egli and Shuguang Zhang, Making Sense of Helices: Right and Wrong Models in Science and Art. MOLECULAR FRONTIERS JOURNAL l Volume 7 l 2023, 22 July 2023; doi:10.1142/S2529732523500086

Person

Edward Boyden

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology

Post

Andrés Rico | MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35: Latin America 2023

Rico was recognized for his contributions in developing low-cost, open source sensors to test the quality and quantity of water sources.

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Media Arts and Sciences Alumni Profiles

Academia

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Ethan Zuckerman Appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences

Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, has been appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Scienc

Event

Hatched in Zürich and Honed at MIT: A sonic tour through time and technology featuring the Paradiso synthesizer

Prof. Joseph Paradiso gave a talk on his synthesizer rig at the Swiss Museum and Centre for Electronic Music Instruments. Watch the video!

Person

Cynthia Breazeal

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; MIT Dean for Digital Learning

Article

MIT researchers create strong, ultra-light architected materials using kirigami techniques

Researchers from the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms are using techniques from kirigami to create strong, lightweight metal structures.

Publication

Ultra-fast Lensless Computational Imaging through 5D Frequency Analysis of Time-resolved Light Transport

D Wu, G Wetzstein, C Barsi, T Willwacher, Q Dai, R Raskar

Project

Cloud Light at Artechouse

A continuation of the project Cloud Light, exhibited at Artechouse as part of Zach Lieberman's show Future Sketches  / Code …

Article

MIT-Pillar AI Collective announces first seed grant recipients

Six teams conducting research in AI, data science, + machine learning receive funding for projects with potential commercial applications.

Event

Tod Machover: "Robots and Opera:'Death and the Powers' and the Intersection of Art and Science"

LocationNorthwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering Description

Wednesday — Thursday
March 2, 2011 —
March 3, 2011
Person

Mitchel Resnick

LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research