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. Working across live AI systems, interactive environments, photography, installation, sound, and moving image, his recent practice develops through the tension between authoring a system and becoming implicated in the images, judgments, and relationships it produces.
Artworks
Ariadne
2026 · Browser-based game with a live LLM companion
MT enters a maze with real stars and no exit, guided by an AI whose confidence remains intact as its reliability declines.
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 · Generative multi-agent installation
Are You Sure?
2025 · LED lightbox and polyphonic stereo sound
The Honest Photographer
2024 · Archival pigment print, projection, printed matter, table and sound
The Way We Played
2024 · Archival pigment prints, CRT video and sound
Dream Together
2023 · Archival pigment prints on aluminium composite panels
America: Polarizingly United
2023 · Archival pigment prints on aluminium composite panels
Open-source projects
Python · 3,474 GitHub stars
Extensible framework that revolutionizes the graphical capabilities of Emacs.
Emacs Lisp · 921 GitHub stars
AI Pair Programming in Emacs with Aider.
Emacs Lisp · 730 GitHub stars
Full-featured GNU Emacs configuration distribution.
Python · 475 GitHub stars
Open-source agent harness that turns your AI agent into your personal DNA expert.
Python · 438 GitHub stars
Future of Agentic Development in Emacs.