Archival images from past ATL Airport Art exhibits. New Georgia Tech installations debuting late November 2025.

Gil Weinberg is a professor and founding director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Music Technology. His research focuses on artificial creativity and musical expression for robots and augmented humans. His work has been featured at The Kennedy Center, Ars Electronica, and the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Museum, and performed with orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the BBC Symphony.

Haile is a robotic percussionist crafted from wood and metal that listens like a human and plays with machine precision. Designed as both collaborator and performer, Haile learns from human musicians, adapting in real time. The project explores the boundaries between human and artificial creativity, using rhythm and interaction to expand musical expression and redefine what it means to create art.

Lisa Marks is an industrial designer and assistant professor at Georgia Tech whose work bridges computational design, craft, and technology. Her research explores how algorithmic methods can preserve global craft traditions while promoting sustainability and social equity. Through collaborations with artisans, she uses digital tools to expand the possibilities of handmade design, redefining the relationship between human creativity and machine precision.

Parametric algorithms merge with traditional handcraft in Lisa Marks’ work, bridging technology, culture, and care. From Thai bamboo weaving to lace bras designed for post-mastectomy women, her practice reimagines and preserves global craft traditions. Through this fusion of code and craft, Marks explores sustainability, empowerment, and the enduring role of human touch in a digital world.

Hyojin Kwon is an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture and founding partner of Pre- and Post-, a design practice based in Boston and Seoul. Her work investigates how digital media reshape architectural design, culture, and urban experience. Through research, teaching, and installation, Kwon explores the evolving relationship between technology, space, and human perception across global contexts.

Discarded plastic becomes a medium for architectural experimentation and innovation. In this studio, students transform waste into material possibility through computational design and hands-on fabrication. Each chair explores new life cycles for plastic, merging technology, sustainability, and craft to question how discarded matter can be reimagined within the built environment and given renewed purpose.

Daniel Phelps is an artist, designer, and educator whose two-decade career spans design, documentary, and emerging technology. His work explores illusion, perception, and non-fiction storytelling through interactive and time-based media. Exhibited in galleries, film festivals, and research institutions across the U.S., Phelps investigates how digital tools shape narrative, experience, and the way we see the world.

This work investigates how digital images operate as both visual language and structural code. Through techniques such as processing and displacement mapping, Phelps transforms pixels into architectural form, blending art, computation, and spatial design. The project examines how digital processes mediate perception and authorship, revealing new relationships between image, material, and maker in the evolving landscape of the post-digital era.

Brian Magerko is a professor of digital media, director of graduate studies in digital media, and head of the Expressive Machinery Lab at Georgia Tech. His research combines cognitive science, computer science, and computational media to study how humans and machines create together. Magerko has led more than $15 million in federally funded research, authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and co-founded the award-winning music-based coding platform EarSketch, used by more than 160,000 learners worldwide. 

Milka Trajkova is a research scientist in Georgia Tech’s Expressive Machinery Lab and a former professional ballet dancer. Her research bridges movement, technology, and design, developing non-invasive, AI-based tools that enhance human motion and creative expression. By combining artistic intuition with computational insight, Trajkova explores how interactive systems can support learning, rehabilitation, and the future of embodied creativity. She earned her Ph.D. in Informatics with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction from Indiana University.

At its core, LuminAI explores how humans and intelligent systems co-create meaning through movement and interaction. Serving as both performance and research platform, it investigates co-creativity, AI literacy, and embodied collaboration. By inviting audiences to move and engage, LuminAI transforms spectators into co-performers, revealing more relational and expressive possibilities for human-centered artificial intelligence.

At its core, LuminAI examines how humans and intelligent systems co-construct meaning and creativity through embodied interaction. It functions as both performance and research artifact—a living platform for studying co-creativity, AI literacy, and the emotional dimensions of human-machine collaboration. By inviting audiences to move, observe, and respond, LuminAI transforms spectators into co-performers, blurring the boundary between art and research. In doing so, it offers a glimpse into more relational, expressive, and human-centered forms of artificial intelligence that emphasize empathy, collaboration, and shared imagination.

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena is an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Materials Science and Engineering whose research advances solar energy materials and sustainable energy systems. His work focuses on next-generation photovoltaic technologies, exploring how material design and fabrication can improve efficiency, scalability, and environmental impact. Through interdisciplinary research and global collaboration, Correa-Baena works to accelerate the transition toward clean, accessible, and renewable energy solutions.

Jeremy Bolen is a multidisciplinary artist and educator at Georgia State University whose work examines environmental change and speculative futures through photography, installation, and research. His practice investigates the unseen effects of human activity on landscapes, infrastructures, and ecologies, often engaging with scientific institutions and fieldwork as part of the creative process. Through experimental imaging and site-specific projects, Bolen explores how art can make the invisible visible, prompting reflection on perception, preservation, and the future of our shared environment.

Silicon and Soil (S&S) and Glaring Through the Sun incorporates work and research by artist Jeremy Bolen and Scientist Dr. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, speculating on the possibilities and challenges of balancing the sun's energy to keep our planet continually habitable. With a focus on the opposing ideas of solar power (the conversion of energy from sunlight to electricity or heat) and solar radiation management (a proposed procedure in which sulfur particles injected into the stratosphere would combat rising temperatures by reflecting sunlight away from the Earth’s surface) this work aims to mobilize new publics around the urgent challenges of these initiatives. 

The long-term goal of this collaboration is to advance public narratives that link scientific research on solar energy and solar radiation management to broader questions around the fragile environment, geopolitical risk, and cultural responsibility. This installation provokes questions about how energy systems shape social futures, and how new materials and procedures carry social, political, and environmental weight. 

Ashutosh Dhekne is an associate professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Computer Science whose research centers on wireless localization, sensing, and mobile computing. His work advances the precision and efficiency of wireless systems through novel algorithms and hardware designs. A recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2022, Dhekne continues to explore how ubiquitous connectivity can enable smarter, more responsive environments. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Motion meets data in this kinetic artwork that transforms human movement and flight paths into waves of color and light. Developed through Georgia Tech’s TechThrive project, the installation uses ultra-wideband signals to visualize motion without cameras, preserving privacy while revealing the unseen rhythms of people and place. By translating movement into dynamic form, it celebrates connection and the beauty of interaction in a data-driven world.

Henrik von Coler is a composer, researcher, and educator whose work explores sound, sustainability, and mobility through electronic instruments and performance systems. His practice bridges music technology, design, and environmental awareness, investigating how portable and modular instruments can shape new ways of listening, performing, and creating. Von Coler’s compositions and projects often emerge from site-specific contexts, where movement, space, and ecology become integral components of sound production. Through his work, he examines the evolving relationship between sound, place, and sustainable production in the digital age, promoting a vision of music-making that is both innovative and ecologically conscious.

Ryan Hersh is the founder of Edison Electric Bikes, an Atlanta-based company dedicated to redefining urban mobility through high-performance electric bicycles. Combining engineering precision with handcrafted design, Hersh creates e-bikes that blend efficiency, sustainability, and style while supporting cleaner, smarter modes of transportation. Under his leadership, Edison has become a catalyst for the city’s growing cycling culture, partnering with artists, designers, and institutions to explore new intersections between technology and mobility. Through his work, Hersh advocates for accessible, eco-conscious transit that reshapes the rhythm of modern cities and inspires a more sustainable urban future.

At the intersection of art and technology, BIKES creates new forms of musical expression through motion and connectivity. The moving network instrument features four electric bicycles, each equipped with a computer, touchscreen, and PA speaker. Linked through a local mesh network, the bikes form a distributed sound system for mobile performances and installations. Developed by Georgia Tech’s School of Music, the School of Industrial Design, and Edison Bicycles, the project addresses sustainability in electronic music, offering a battery-powered, flexible alternative to traditional setups. The bicycles provide a mobile, accessible platform for multi-channel sound, reducing emissions while expanding creative possibilities for public performance.

BIKES also reimagines the urban soundscape. Drawing from R. Murray Schafer and Hildegard Westerkamp, the project introduces mobile sound environments that contrast noise pollution and invite active listening. Presented at the ATL Airport exhibition, it includes a film by Kevin Beasley documenting early prototypes and a concept model integrating music technology directly into the bicycle. Led by Georgia Tech’s Lab for Interaction and Immersion (L42i) with the School of Industrial Design and community partners, BIKES blends art, sustainability, and mobility to transform how sound is experienced in public space.