Tuesday, September 23 2025
10:00 a.m.
KMDI
Robarts Library, Room 7020, 130 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3H1, Canada
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Abstract
In this talk, artist, curator, and researcher Maurice Jones introduces A Maroon’s Technical Practice (MTP) as a critical approach to practices of making and unmaking in the technological arts. Drawing on histories of marronage and informed by postcolonial, Black, and feminist technoscience, MTP positions the (un)making of technologies as a form of resistance to dominant sociotechnical paradigms. It seeks to shift the temporalities and localities of resistance, to build networks of solidarity across communities, institutions, technologies, and geographies, and to temporarily manifest sonic fictions in an experiential present.
In developing MTP, Jones highlights diverse research-creation case studies, including his spatial sound work Soundscapes of an Earthly Community, the embedded machine learning installations feral.ai, the work-in-progress settler-native-slave, the collective project Wilding AI, and insights from his doctoral thesis Festivals as Temporary Utopias.
Bio
Maurice Jones (he/him) is an artist, curator, and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada. He’s a PhD candidate at Concordia University, Montréal, with Dr. Fenwick McKelvey, where he investigates the cultural AI commons, public participation in technology governance, and art-music-technology festivals as temporary utopias.
