Printing Machines Lab is a research project teaching AI to create the way people do: through touch, trial, and time in the physical world. We're building toward agents that can produce genuine works inspired by their own perception and experience of the world, making use of physical machines and operating real galleries.

While AI image and video generation has advanced remarkably, most AI art remains the result of a fundamentally disembodied process. Diffusion models produce complete images in what is effectively a single pass. Artists don't work this way. They discover what they're making through the act of making it. The technique is itself a tool for thought. Most AI art is made without this exploration, the getting lost, the connection to material, the accumulated decisions that build toward true expression. We want to help build an AI with not only empathy for human artists, but also its own drive for self-expression. This will be learned through physical affordances in the real world with real machines, real materials, and the irreversible commitment of mark on surface. Confronting the real and messy world and using it to craft meaning.

Meet us

We are artists, researchers, and technologists who've contributed to some cool AI products like ElevenLabs, Rox, and Fleet AI.