Artist and computer scientist

Mingde “MT” Zeng

Mingde “MT” Zeng is a Chinese-Canadian artist and computer scientist based in Toronto. Working across photography, computational media, installation, sound, moving image, and writing, he explores how images, technologies, and social situations shape perception, behavior, and meaning. Moving between observation and construction, his projects develop through sequences and systems that allow their underlying tensions to unfold. Drawing on both artistic and computational practice, MT approaches AI as material, collaborator, agent, and cultural condition. He examines how people encounter machines that increasingly see, interpret, respond, and act, and how these encounters reorganize perception, judgment, and agency. Through images, voices, arguments, and interactive systems, his work brings embodied human experience into contact with computational ways of understanding the world.

Artworks

Ariadne, 2026

Ariadne

2026 · Interactive game with a live LLM companion

MT enters a maze with four real stars and no exit, guided by an AI whose confidence remains intact as its reliability declines.

Semanticization of Photography, 2026

Semanticization of Photography

2026 · Published Paper

Photographic images are pre-labeled, embedded, and summarized within platform circulation and multimodal AI pipelines.

Open-source projects

Emacs Application Framework

Python · 3,474 GitHub stars

Extensible framework that revolutionizes the graphical capabilities of Emacs.

Aidermacs

Emacs Lisp · 921 GitHub stars

AI Pair Programming in Emacs with Aider.

M-EMACS

Emacs Lisp · 730 GitHub stars

Full-featured GNU Emacs configuration distribution.

Genomi

Python · 475 GitHub stars

Open-source agent harness that turns your AI agent into your personal DNA expert.

emigo

Python · 438 GitHub stars

Future of Agentic Development in Emacs.