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
Ariadne
2026 · Browser-based participatory artwork with a live large language model
I construct a collaboration in which AI assistance becomes less dependable while its apologies and encouragement continue, leaving more work to the person being helped.
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.