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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. 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

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.