Recap // The Tech Unconcsious: Digital Capital and its Desires
Amazon once patented a robotic cage that would transport workers within the warehouse. Meta filed one for a device that lets users type in mid-air. The tech industry spends billions to produce and defend these patents. Intellectual property codifies ownership over imagined futures, converting speculative potential into property, preventing the emergence of alternative technologies, and […]
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.
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.
Recap // Bridging Histories: Black and Indigenous Pedagogies Shape New Approaches to Teaching and Research
Watch now! A recent virtual talk featured Jade Nixon, BRN’s postdoctoral fellow, and kara lynch, the artist-in-residence, both recipients of the Black Indigenous Waterways Fellowship.
Recap // Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering AI
Watch now! Feeding the Machine tells the story of a global technology through the eyes of the people who produce it. The talk described the lives of the workers deliberately concealed from view, and the power structures that determine their future.
Stream CTM 2025: Wilding AI – Generative Aesthetics Across Creative Domains
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.