Research Talk: Game Engine Speculation
The 2021 ‘Metaverse moment’ cast the game engine as a speculative technology, operating as imaginary and infrastructure. As infrastructure, engines like Unreal amass 3D asset libraries as building blocks for modular and flexible assembly into real-time environments.
SRI Seminar Series: “The power of discussion: Designing useful communication with AI agents”
The SRI Seminar Series welcomes Anastasia Kuzminykh. With a background spanning computer science, psychology, and ethnographic research, Kuzminykh’s work bridges human-computer interaction and the design of intelligent systems.
A Maroon’s Technical Practice: Computational Research-Creation and Black Machine Agencies
Maurice Jones will share insights from his participatory action research project ArtIA: Towards a Commons for AI in Digital Creation.
Workers Governing Digital Technologies: Collective Strategies Across Contexts
This two-day in-person event will bring together 20 invited speakers from Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, and the United States to exchange insights on worker-led governance of digital technologies
Degoogling Workshop
The KMDI Makerspace is pleased to present a monthly event for Linux users (and the Linux-curious) to meet IRL.
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering AI
KMDI is launching its public lecture series with a talk by Feeding the Machine authors Mark Graham (University of Oxford) and James Muldoon (University of Essex)
CTM Festival: Wilding AI Lab
Created in collaboration with the initiative “Wilding AI”, this four-day lab will assemble a group of participants to learn about the application of generative AI in spatial audio, and collectively explore the wilder territories of AI.
Linux Computer Club
Meet, co-work, and connect with fellow Linux users and the Linux-curious. Drop in, bring a laptop, or try out Linux on-site—everyone welcome!
Ursula Franklin Lecture with Cory Doctorow
“With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Centure and How We Can Overthrow It”