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Artist and open-source AI engineer

Mingde “MT” Zeng

Mingde “MT” Zeng is a Chinese-Canadian artist and open-source AI engineer based in Toronto. His current practice centres on AI and agentic systems, spanning generative imagery, interactive environments, installation, sound, and moving image. He brings technical experimentation and personal experience into his work, exploring the artistic possibilities of systems that can generate material, interpret it, and participate in its further development.

Artworks

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.

AI Art Is (Not) Art, 2025

AI Art Is (Not) Art

2025 · Generative multi-agent installation

Are You Sure?, 2025

Are You Sure?

2025 · LED lightbox and polyphonic stereo sound

The Honest Photographer, 2024

The Honest Photographer

2024 · Archival pigment print, projection, printed matter, table and sound

The Way We Played, 2024

The Way We Played

2024 · Archival pigment prints, CRT video and sound

Dream Together, 2023

Dream Together

2023 · Archival pigment prints on aluminium composite panels

America: Polarizingly United, 2023

America: Polarizingly United

2023 · Archival pigment prints on aluminium composite panels

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.