Event

Artist Talk by "Red" Hong Yi

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionJoin artist "Red" Hong Yi as she describes her creative process of finding and creating the beaut…

Thursday
April 21, 2016
Person

Andy Hong

Person

Erin Hong

Person

Hotaek Hong

Former Visiting Scientist, LGE

Person

Alex Hong

Former Research Technician

Person

Alice Hong

Former Research Assistant

Person

Yi Sun

Former Research Assistant

Person

Yi Cui

Former Research Scientist, Optimization and Application of Expansion Microscopy

Person

Chin-Yi Cheng

Person

Yi-Cheng Jiang

Former Research Assistant

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Artist Talk | "Space Folding," with Zach Lieberman and James Clar

The Praise Shadows Art Gallery hosts an artist talk between Zach Lieberman and Manila-based American artist James Clar.

Monday
October 18, 2021
7:00pm ET
Person

Hongyou Xiong

Person

Hongzhi Tang

Former Visiting Associate Professor

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Artists talk | "Learning from Reality": Karsten Schuhl with Verena Bachl and Benjamin Maus

The artists' presentations will be followed by an opportunity for you to ask questions and join the conversation.

Wednesday
September 29, 2021
5:00pm ET
Person

Yiyun Zhang

Research Assistant

Person

Jiun-Yih Kuan

Former Research Assistant

Event

Kent Larson @ EmTech Hong Kong

LocationHong Kong Convention And Exhibition Centre DescriptionAccelerating urban expansion demands resilient urban design; cities must be s…

Tuesday
June 7, 2016
Event

Kwan Hong Lee Thesis Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIt is an open question how our day-to-day decisions will be affected by the always-on connection …

Friday
September 2, 2011
Person

Sheng-Ying (Aithne) Pao

Former Visiting Scientist, LKK

Article

With sign language and sound, an artist upends audience perceptions

Christine Sun Kim talks to the New York Times about her work. Her installation "The Sound of Obsessing" appears in the Media Lab's lobby.

Person

Albert Redo-Sanchez

Former Research Specialist

Article

This biotech artist wants scientists to think about their creations

Artist Ani Liu challenges how we think about creating the future, using artificial intelligence and mind-controlled sperm.

Person

Julia Reda

Person

Sasank Reddy

Event

Schoenberg in Hollywood: Asian premiere at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Chinese University of Hong Kong will present the Asian premiere of Professor Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood on Nov. 4, 2023

Saturday
November 4, 2023
Article

Artist Ani Liu feels her way into an uncertain future

Alum Ani Liu, a 2019–20 University Arts Fellow at Princeton University, talks to The Daily Princetonian.

Project

Introduction to computer networks for artists

A collection of tutorials to introduce computer protocols for sharing data between computers and over the internet, for artistic purposes…

Post

Xin Liu wins inaugural K11 Artist Prize

Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.

Article

Chinese artist Xin Liu takes us inside her lab-like London studio, where engineering and creativity converge.

Xin Liu, an alum of the Fluid Interfaces group and collaborator with the Space Exploration Initiative, talks to Artnet about her practice.

Article

How can hyper-local solutions help reduce carbon emissions?

In an article for the World Economic Forum, former Labber Honghao Deng looks at sustainability research from the City Science group.

Article

Why artist and engineer Xin Liu sent her wisdom tooth into outer space

The LA Times talks to Fluid Interfaces alum Xin Liu about her art project Living Distance.

Publication

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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Lunch Lectures: Generative AI and Artistic Practice

Join the Future Sketches group on Fridays from 12 – 1pm ET for the Lunch Lectures Spring 2023 edition: “Generative AI and artistic practice”

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SciArt Initiative Lunch Break Talk: Pat Pataranutaporn

LunchBreak is a series of live, online interviews with science- and technology-inspired artists.

Wednesday
June 10, 2020
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
Event

Artist Panel: Sound and Real-Time Systems

LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theatre (E15, Lower Level) Description

Thursday — Wednesday
February 16, 2012 —
February 15, 2012
Publication

An Artificial Artist

Matthew Brand

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Artistic Research Luncheon | Membranal strategies for a vibrational world

Nicole L'Huillier will speak at an event as part of ACT's Spring 2020 Artistic Research Luncheon Series.

Thursday
February 27, 2020
12:30pm — 2:00pm ET
Article

The artist-engineer in VR

At Sundance New Frontiers 2020, Xin Liu and Qinya (Jenny) Guo debuted Living Distance, a VR piece about the journey of Liu’s wisdom tooth.

Event

City Lab Biobío: Conectando innovación y ciudad en la red MIT

This webinar is hosted by the City Lab Biobío in conjunction with the city laboratories in Andorra, Guadalajara and MIT City Science in Cam…

Wednesday
March 20, 2024
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
Project

Red Fish, Blue Fish

With common-sense computing, we can discover trends in the topics that people are talking about right now. Red Fish, Blue Fish takes input …

Article

How to shape a productive scientist–artist collaboration

Researchers + artists reflect on the partnerships that have created career opportunities and forged a deeper public understanding of science

Article

For multimedia artist Nicole L'Huillier, sound is a portal for change

Opera of the Future PhD candidate Nicole L'Huillier discusses her multimedia artwork with WBUR.

Article

11 Artists Leading The Country's Cultural Conversation Right Now

Shantell Martin, who spent two years as a visiting scholar at the Media Lab, is one of Gotham Magazine’s top artists of 2022.

Event

The Artist: Means, Meaning, and Impact in the 21st Century

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionHead of the Opera of the Future group Tod Machover has been a co-curator of “Generation Elsewhere…

Friday
December 9, 2016
Event

Henry Holtzman @ Red Innova Conference

LocationMadrid, Spain Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) Information Ecology

Wednesday
June 15, 2011
Event

UN AI for Good Talk : Wearable AI and the future of human augmentation by Pat Pataranutaporn

The AI for Good series is the leading action-oriented, global & inclusive United Nations platform on AI.

Friday
November 13, 2020
9:00am — 10:00am ET
Person

Sputniko!

Former Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Project

Red Silk of Fate—Tamaki's Crush

Red String of Fate is an East Asian mythology in which gods tie an invisible red string between those that are destined to be together. Spu…

Article

Friday Five: Alexis Hope talks about sexual health, bacteria in design + more

For Design Milk’s Friday Five, Media Lab alum Alexis Hope shares the work of five of her favorite designers.

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Tod Machover: IAMM keynote talk links

​ Some links to accompany a talk on “Possible Futures for Music and Medicine.”

Article

Artist Xin Liu lets science-backed absurdity take the wheel

The artist and MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative Arts curator makes work that explores why the seemingly impossible is possible.

Project

Red Ink

Red Ink is an open-source web service for ad hoc groups to share and interpret their collective financial data. It includes interfaces for …

Article

Artists explore AI, with some deep unease

Coming shows involve artificial intelligence, but underlying them is a concern: “What are we unleashing?”

Event

Art in Action: How Artistic Projects Inspire New Perspectives in Planning

LocationBuilding 9, Room 9-450 Description

Wednesday
March 31, 2010
Article

Industry Talk | Tapis Magique: a choreomusical interactive carpet

Pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet generates 3D sensor data based on body gestures, drives an immersive sonic environment

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Sculpting Evolution

Evolution gave rise to every living thing and all of human culture, but evolved systems are very different from those designed by huma…

Article

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.

Publication

Txt2Vid: Ultra-Low Bitrate Compression of Talking-Head Videos via Text

P. Tandon et al., "Txt2Vid: Ultra-Low Bitrate Compression of Talking-Head Videos via Text," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2022.3221953.

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Operobots: A Robotic Swarm for Artistic Expression

We are studying and implementing a swarm of 36 holonomic-drive robots for use in an upcoming robotic opera. Each robot will eventually comp…

Project

Finger Talk

Finger Talk is a small experiment Future Sketches has been working on related to gestural computation. What does it mean to have code you c…

Person

Zach Lieberman

Adjunct Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Article

Talking with Maggie Church: MIT staff are "part of it all"

Get to know more about Maggie Church, the program coordinator for the City Science research group, through this MIT SA+P profile.

Publication

Performing Process: The Artist Studio as Interactive Art

Blackaller, L. "Performing Process: The Artist Studio as Interactive Art"

Event

Creative Work as Adversary: The AI and Machine Art by Roboticist and Artist Alexander Reben

A new, cutting-edge exhibit examining the connections between the worlds of artificial intelligence, robotics, and art.

Publication

RadioSilenced: A Semi-Serendipitous Hyper Local Talk Radio Exploration Tool

Margaret A. Hughes, Deb Roy. 2019. RadioSilenced: A Semi-Serendipitous Hyper Local Talk Radio Exploration Tool. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 221–225. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3311957.3359474

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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.