Artist in Residence

October 22, 2019

To get a sense of the mood in Microsoft’s Research Building 99, just take a look at “Ada.” Named for the polymath and programming visionary Ada Lovelace, the two-story tall architectural pavilion suspended in the atrium, at the tech company’s…

October 22, 2019

To get a sense of the mood in Microsoft’s Research Building 99, just take a look at “Ada.” Named for the polymath and programming visionary Ada Lovelace, the two-story tall architectural pavilion suspended in the atrium, at the tech company’s campus…

October 21, 2019

In Building 99 on Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington campus, Prof. Jenny Sabin, architecture, unveiled her latest project: an AI interface called Ada that translates people’s facial reactions into color by using a network of a dozen cameras designed to collect people’s…

October 12, 2019

For more than a decade, architect and educator Jenny Sabin has created a series of large sculptural installations at the intersection of architecture, art, and science. Integrating new technologies, inventive material and a combination of biological phenomena… For more than…

October 10, 2019

Jenny Sabin is perched high on a scissor lift, her head poking through an opening of the porous fabric structure that she’s struggling to stretch onto the exoskeleton of her installation piece, which is suspended in the airy atrium of…

October 10, 2019

Art and architecture already speaks to us on a multitude of levels. A new installation on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Wash., communicates in a new way, using artificial intelligence to “read the room” and become an interactive element reacting to…

September 12, 2016

Nature has many languages. Project Florence takes advantage of the sensibility of plants to different light frequencies and uses it to trigger electrical responses by a plant and compares the similarities between plant signals and natural language processes. Nature has…