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.
UofT Critical Computing G2G: Cross-Lab Gathering
This gathering brings together research groups working at the intersections of computing, design, and society — a chance to hear what others are exploring, share what you’re working on, and discover points of overlap or collaboration. Each presenter will have five minutes to introduce their work, followed by a short Q&A. We’ll wrap up with pizza and informal networking to keep the conversations going.
Research Talk: Game Engine Speculation
In recent years, tools like Unreal Engine have transformed how we imagine and build digital worlds. These “game engines” are more than creative software
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)