Aesthetics + Computation Group: MIT Media Laboratory
http://acg.media.mit.edu/projects/

The Aesthetics + Computation Group (ACG) of the MIT Media Laboratory is populated with people who have tremendous technical and artistic talents. The goal of the group is to encourage the “design of advanced system architectures and thought processes to enable the creation of (as yet) unimaginable forms and spaces.” Upon entering the website, visitors may feel like they have stumbled upon an old factory-turned-loft, with the website’s gray, yellow, and orange color scheme and spare font. The “Projects” section of the website has 20 current projects, plus multiple years of “Previous” projects, and a dozen or more “Theses” written by the participants in the ACG, at the end of their time there. Some of the projects include “Cinema Fabrique”, which aims to produce “engaging cinematic experiences in realtime for live audiences through natural language and gestural control.” “Treehouse Studio” is a project to teach children and adults about the digital arts and design using online exercises, tools, and activities. Finally, the problem of machines lacking a sense of space is explored in the project titled “Installation”. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2011. http://scout.wisc.edu/. This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.