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 artificial intelligence, agentic interactive systems, computational media, photography, installation, sound, moving image, and writing, he constructs situations in which images, technical systems, and people produce meaning together. Moving between observation and construction, he brings photographs, voices, interfaces, objects, and live processes into encounters that unfold through repetition and duration.
Artworks
Ariadne
2026 · Browser-based 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 · 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.