James Jung Hoon Seo

James Jung Hoon Seo

MIT

James Jung-Hoon Seo, from the MIT Media Lab, belongs to the “Aesthetics and Computation Group” led by Jhon Maeda. Aesthetics + Computation Group works on the designs of the future with advanced architectures and implements the processes that allow the creation of unimaginable shapes and spaces, projects such as Physical Language Workshop that propose to recover the fundamental concepts of visual language to digital aesthetics, or processing , conceived as a space for learning systems programming in the context of electronic arts, are examples of SEO developments that are characterized by multidisciplinary approaches, a specific identity of the MIT Media Lab.

Communication between different scientific environments is one of the central objectives of the MIT Media LAb, founded by Nicolás Negroponte in 1980. The Media Lab creates a new academic discipline called Media Arts & Science, whose philosophy is to explore the technical, cognitive and aesthetic bases for satisfy human communication facilitated by technology. Its main long-term objective is how to improve the quality of life in the information society of the future.