Intersections of Art and Science

With Project Eclipse, the Urban Innovation Initiative presents a full stack -from sensors to analytics- air quality sensing platform for cities. The goal is a radical increase (10x - 100x) in the geographic granularity of environmental sensing in cities in…

Ada is the first first architectural pavilion project to incorporate artificial intelligence, Ada’s knitted light immerses visitors in a responsive and interactive glow of photoluminescence driven by individual and collective expression data gathered and housed within Microsoft Research Building 99.

Fashion, clothing, and wearables are a new frontier in technology. Project Brookdale is a set of technologies designed to enable fashion designers to embed smart technology within their designs, without having to know a lot about technology.

Smart Tattoos connect to a custom-designed microprocessor equipped with a capacitive sensor and demonstrate a new wearables paradigm. These interactive tattoos are capacitive and can send signals to any device via touch.

This piece, the creation of artist in residence, Aduén Darriba Frederiks, with the assistance of visualization researcher, Steven M. Drucker, explores the discrepancies in data through physicality. Large discrepancies are often difficult to fully comprehend, for example, looking at a skyscraper…

A Panorama of the Skies is a prototype of an immersive audiovisual installation created in collaboration between Maja Petrić, an artist, and Hrvoje Benko, a human-computer interaction researcher at Microsoft Research. Together they have been researching possibilities of immersive technologies…

The Skies Epitomized is a series of artworks exploring the essence of the sky from the perspective of humans gazing at it. The works were created in collaboration between Maja Petrić, an artist, and Nebojša Jojić, a machine learning researcher.…

Having created gigapixel-sized (multi-billion pixel) images of cities, we found them fascinating to explore, but also surprisingly devoid of the most exciting part of a city, its people. Matt Uyttendaele, Michael Cohen, Cindy Ball, and John Boylan set out to…

Virus is a conceptual art installation, created by artists Neel Joshi and Asta Roseway, that explores the idea of creating an organism that is fed by the people and activity in the building. The organism is invasive, infectious, and intelligent.