Book Talk: Digital Queers and High Tech Gays
In her forthcoming book, Digital Queers and High Tech Gays, Dr. Alex D. Ketchum explores how queer communities have long shaped internet culture by organizing, sharing knowledge, and preserving their own histories.
Research Talk: Making a Cyberfeminist Index
The internet has always been feminist, just rarely archived that way. Mindy Seu presents Cyberfeminism Index, a collaborative, crowd-sourced project that gathers decades of feminist tech activism, art, and theory while challenging who gets remembered online and how digital histories are written.
Research Talk: Making a Cyberfeminist Index
The internet has always been feminist, just rarely archived that way. Mindy Seu presents Cyberfeminism Index, a collaborative, crowd-sourced project that gathers decades of feminist tech activism, art, and theory while challenging who gets remembered online and how digital histories are written.
Recap // Emulators, Editions, and the Literary Forms of Game Design
On Thursday, January 29, 2026, Alan Galey and Brendan Allen visited KMDI to share how early web-based interactive fiction can be studied, preserved, and re-experienced, especially when the technologies that once made it work have disappeared.
Recap // Game Engine Speculation
On November 6, 2025, KMDI welcomed Dr. Aleena Chia (Goldsmiths, University of London) for a research talk that opened a wide lens on one of the most influential technologies shaping contemporary digital culture: the game engine.
Recap // A Maroon’s Technical Practice with Maurice Jones
On September 23, the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) welcomed Maurice Jones, PhD Candidate at Concordia University, for a research talk exploring new approaches to artificial intelligence grounded in Black studies and feminist technoscience.
Research Talk: Emulators, Editions, and the Literary Forms of Game Design
Join us for a research talk to explore the literary and design dimensions of early web-based interactive fiction through the case of ApertureScience.com. Learn how emulators open new pathways for preserving and understanding born-digital artifacts.
Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship
Far from a distant or hypothetical force, the Rewiring Democracy demonstrates that AI is already influencing the drafting of legislation, regulatory enforcement, judicial rulings, and public discourse.
Ethics in Translation: AI Across Borders
Artificial Intelligence ethics is often framed in universal terms — but what happens when we look beyond the Western contexts that shape those frameworks?
Join Professor Ishtiaque Ahmed for an ABC Seminar exploring how AI systems extend colonial legacies and how community practices across the Global South reveal alternative ethical perspectives.
Recap // Workers Governing Technologies: Collective Strategies Across Contexts
Watch recaps now! The two-day workshop explored how workers and their organizations are shaping the governance of digital technologies — including platforms, data, and AI — through collective bargaining, co-operative formation, and policy reform.