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Hex House was co-founded by Char Stiles, a master's student in the Future Sketches research group.
For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, who has collaborated with the Media Lab's Future Sketches group, fabric itself tells the story.
The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.
Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.
Nicole L'Huillier, an alum of the Opera of the Future group, is collaborating on a sound installation at this year's Venice Biennale.
Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.
This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
Addae received the award for VocalCords, which was developed as part of his master's thesis at the Media Lab.
Alum Akito van Troyer, who's now an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, talks about finding the music in everyday objects.
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about incorporating his research on interactive textiles into the Living Knitwork Pavilion.
In this interview with MIT MAD, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar discusses his work, which explores the intersection of culture and technology.
Arts in Tech Podcast based in Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University Interviews Char Stiles from Future Sketches
Developed by a multidisciplinary team led by Media Lab student Jack Forman, FibeRobo is a low-cost, programmable, shape-shifting fiber.
If you’ve ever touched a plasma globe— those glowing orbs full of electrical fire—you’ve experienced the work of Media Lab alum Bill Parker.
Cultivating creativity on a broad scale requires expertise that cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Dr. Alaa Algargoosh received the award for her research on how acoustic experiences can affect wellbeing.
For Design Milk’s Friday Five, Media Lab alum Alexis Hope shares the work of five of her favorite designers.
Wishing you a holiday season filled with love, peace, and joy of discovery.
The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
Tod Machover was full of praise for the young singers who gave his opera Schoenberg in Hollywood its first public performance in China
Democratizing access to space.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences.
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium.
Designing systems for cognitive support
Looking beyond smart cities.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical Monitoring
(Dis)Appearables is an approach for actuated Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) to appear and disappear.
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in Being. Creative. Together.
"superpose" explores the potential of interaction and experiential design.
The low-cost FibeRobo is compatible with existing textile manufacturing techniques.
The Signal Kinetics group invented the world's first battery-free wireless underwater camera.
A new coding app enables young people around the world to use mobile devices to express themselves creatively.
Too many apps treat young people as passive consumers, not motivated makers. But there are alternatives.
Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening
The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.
Media Lab student Jessica Shand, of the Opera of the Future group, was named to the inaugural class of the 2023 SJA Fellowship.
Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.
Researchers at the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms have created plate lattices that are lighter than cork and highly customizable.
Professor Tod Machover talks to the Boston Musical Intelligencer about updating VALIS for its first live performance in almost 30 years.
Xin Liu, an alum of the Fluid Interfaces group and collaborator with the Space Exploration Initiative, talks to Artnet about her practice.
Abisola Okuk, who began her career at MIT as an admin in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, talks to MIT News about finding her passion.
Researchers from the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms are using techniques from kirigami to create strong, lightweight metal structures.
Using kirigami techniques, researchers at the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms have created complex metal structures that are lighter than cork.
The series was initially inspired by the work of Ernst Haeckel.
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.
In an interview with Chamber Music America, Media Lab Professor Tod Machover talks about AI and music.
Mary Niskala, a senior administrative assistant, talks to MIT News about her proudest moments at the Institute.
The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.
Media Lab student Ayşe Guvenilir and MIT alumni Mariam Dogar and Maisha Munawwara Prome share work from their poetry anthology.
The NIH reports on research from the Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School investigating the effect of naps on creativity.
In a recent profile, Ganit Goldstein talks about her work at the intersection of fashion, engineering, and tech, and her experience at MIT.
The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS reboots for a new generation
With Ghost in the Machine, alum Misha Sra and collaborator Purav Bhardwaj invite participants to consider the anthropomorphization of AI,
The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
Ann Berger Valente and Leo Burd of the Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten group have been awarded an Education Innovation Grant.
Join the Future Sketches group on Fridays from 12 – 1pm ET for the Lunch Lectures Fall 2023 edition about Computational Typography
Machover’s Overstory Overture is a 30-minute work, for a single voice, chamber ensemble, and electronics.
Opera of the Future PhD candidate Nicole L'Huillier discusses her multimedia artwork with WBUR.
Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer.
MIT (and Wellesley) undergrad students can work for credit, pay, or as volunteers. You can learn more about policies and deadlin…