feral.ai is a research-creation project that imagines Black Machine Agencies turned feral. As an agent of Black techné—a tradition of radical Black aesthetics and freedom that disrupts binary categories—feral.ai embodies B. Coleman’s (2021) appeal for an AI “that can be free—if not to imagine, then to generate—speeding through possibilities, junctures that are idiotic until they are not.”

Inspired by Marronage in North America and the Caribbean—the French etymology of the word “maroon” carries a general sense of being abandoned without resources—feral.ai responds to the Carnival’s theme of Shipwreck, exploring what might happen when there is no savior, no rescue, only—Shipwreck.