A Maroon’s Technical Practice: Computational Research-Creation and Black Machine Agencies

Maurice gave the research talk A Maroon’s Technical Practice: Computational Research-Creation and Black Machine Agencies at the Knowledge Media Design Institute, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, on 23 September 2025.

feral.ai is a research-creation project that imagines Black Machine Agencies turned feral. Relating to the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, the embodied agent of Black techné was released into the swamps surrounding Ferme Lanthorne in Southern Québec.