How repetition helps art speak to us

Jay Keyser’s new book, “Play It Again, Sam,” makes the case that repeated motifs enhance our experience of artistic works.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
July 1, 2025 ~8 min

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

A new method can physically restore original paintings using digitally constructed films, which can be removed if desired.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
June 11, 2025 ~8 min


Animation technique simulates the motion of squishy objects

The approach could help animators to create realistic 3D characters or engineers to design elastic products.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
June 6, 2025 ~6 min

Teaching AI models the broad strokes to sketch more like humans do

SketchAgent, a drawing system developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, sketches up concepts stroke-by-stroke, teaching language models to visually express concepts on their own and collaborate with humans.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
June 2, 2025 ~7 min

Hybrid AI model crafts smooth, high-quality videos in seconds

The CausVid generative AI tool uses a diffusion model to teach an autoregressive (frame-by-frame) system to rapidly produce stable, high-resolution videos.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
May 6, 2025 ~6 min

The human body, its movement, and music

Connected by MIT’s Human Insight Collaborative, Lecturer Mi-Eun Kim and Research Scientist Praneeth Namburi want to develop an understanding of musical expression and skill development.

Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
April 7, 2025 ~7 min

3D printing approach strings together dynamic objects for you

“Xstrings” method enables users to produce cable-driven objects, automatically assemble bionic robots, sculptures, and dynamic fashion designs.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
March 18, 2025 ~7 min

Images that transform through heat

The Thermochromorph printmaking technique developed by CSAIL researchers allows images to transition into each other through changes in temperature.

Adam Conner-Simons | MIT CSAIL • mit
Jan. 8, 2025 ~6 min


A new way to create realistic 3D shapes using generative AI

Researchers propose a simple fix to an existing technique that could help artists, designers, and engineers create better 3D models.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Dec. 4, 2024 ~7 min

Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation

An AI method developed by Professor Markus Buehler finds hidden links between science and art to suggest novel materials.

Stephanie Martinovich | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • mit
Nov. 12, 2024 ~6 min

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