trent wintermeier

Where the Internet Goes When It’s Down — Civics of Technology Today, we have a midweek blog post from Trent Wintermeier on a timely event Trent Wintermeier is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. His r...

"The impression that the internet is 'down' opens up moments for rhetorical action: to reconsider our dependency on platforms that require environmental injury, to create learning experiences beyond the centralization of our digital landscape," writes @trentwintermeier.bsky.social.

yay!!!!!

Front door of seaholm

DFMI group listening to speaker

DFMI participants writing

On Tuesday morning, DWRL ADs @hannahhopkins.bsky.social and @trentwintermeier.bsky.social led a workshop at the Seaholm Power Plant, which explored the scales required to investigate energy's contours and expose its capacities.

Cyanotype under the shadow of plant

Cyanotype collage under blue light

Eight cyanotype products

DFMI 2025: ENERGY - DAY 4

On Thursday, DFMI participants logged and introduced energy through cyanotyping. Check out what @martheawebber.bsky.social, @mez-rperez.bsky.social, and Jered Mabaquiao are working on!

Green, black, and white slide that reads "Energy is the raw material of the cloud" Anne Pasek, Trent University, with social media handles. Image of circuit board.

DFMI 2025: ENERGY – DAY 2

Today we heard from our first speaker, @apasek.bsky.social. “Energy is the Raw Material of the Cloud” focused on mapping where data is housed, alongside discussion of local land use conflicts, wobbling climate pledges, and the utopian hopes for a digital future.

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ME MER MO MONDAY: Field Energetics edition. July 7th, 2025. Poster in red, purple, yellow. Uninstaller, Alex Keller, Kyle Evans, and Brandon Stargrave. Visuals by Night Visuals. Dadalab. 2008 Alexander Ave. 7:30pm-10:30pm $10

This July 7th MeMerMo has paired up with the Digital Field Methods Institute at UT Austin to host a night of soundscapes crafted around the theme of energetic soundscapes – the acoustic reverberations, resonances, and traces of energy composing our fields.

All are invited to attend! See you there!

DFMI postcard for day 1 with magnifying glass over left portion

DFMI 2025 Kickoff, Casey Boyle, DWRL Director opening slide

DFMI 2025: ENERGY kickoff begins at 1pm! Stay tuned for more updates from our online week.

Three sheets of mylar paper with the headings Readings, Energy, and Welcome are fanned out on a table. There's also a bunch of little envelopes that say 'Open me on June 30' (+other dates). My hand is in the shot holding up a magnifying glass, expanding text on another envelope that says See Different. There is also a Sunpoint Kit, with a pretty illustration of a white fern silhouette over a blue background

The fine folks of UT Austin's Digital Field Methods Institute are hosting me as a keynote this year. This means that I get the coolest mail! Y'all are setting quite the feast.

Call For Projects — Error 406 Tech Fascism Not Acceptable We are looking for 10 scores against tech fascism. Artists, curators, and collectives worldwide are invited to apply with project ideas that must be realized as a set of instructions, scores, how-tos,...

I'm on the jury for this open call to fund works opposing tech fascism. Awards are between €1500 and € 7000. Applications due tomorrow!

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Flyer for Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Issue 27, calling for submissions on "Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy." Deadline: June 15, 2025. Focuses on teaching DH under limited tech resources. Includes link to website for more info.

Digital humanists! JITP is seeking submissions for Issue 27 of the journal. Deadline is June 15.

Details here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

Out now!
The "Atlas of Spatial Figures" presents new spatial imaginaries to capture the complex realities of our world.
Through the interplay of analytical, narrative, and visual elements, it encourages readers to explore #sfb1265 research by thinking visually!
#OpenAccess⬇️
jovis.de/de/book/9783...

Recognizing AI Hype Masquerading as Research Jennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University I recently posted to LinkedIn a critique of some AI hype masquerading as research, and I thought to do a blog post on this topic, in case it’s help…

New blog post: Recognizing AI Hype Masquerading as Research (a reworking of my previous LinkedIn post) refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/r...

Silicon Valley Imperialism

So many Silicon places. Tomorrow. @dukepress.bsky.social

www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-insti...

METROCrossReferenceCoalition_Students The Cross-Reference Coalition An Experimental School

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio

New this week from the MIT Press 📚👇

A Sense of Direction: Rhetoric, Energy, and Infrastructure This article argues for a sense of proprioception as a conceptual frame for how energy materializations tangle with digital infrastructure, suggesting terms through which rhetoricians might advance...

My first solo-authored article is up now in RSQ! This piece was a dream to work on. I'm so humbled by the generosity of the RSQ reviewers and editors, and even more sure that my crackerjack home team of friends + colleagues is the best in the game. Check it out! bit.ly/hhopkinsrsq

Cover image for book Algorithmic Worldmaking: The Rhetorical Craft of Networked Order by Jeremy David Johnson. To its right, text reads: "Algorithmic Worldmaking is an ambitious and imaginative research project that explores the impact of algorithms on cultural life. It is well done and compellingly written." -E. Johanna Hartelius, author of The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons

My book is now out in the wild! I wish the timing of its release could have been different--things feel so dire right now--but, honestly, what I've written is more relevant than ever. I'd be honored if you'd snag a copy and/or request one for your library 🙂
www.uapress.ua.edu/978081732221...

Now in NEH program guidelines, via @jacklynch000.bsky.social :

Submissions are open for our online conference "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality" with great keynotes.

Please send in your abstracts by 28 Feb 2025.
We're very much looking forward to reading them.

🔗 hub.redico.eu/events/95/di...

students this semester are really excited about our collaborative spotify playlist... 19 of them submitted 62 SONGS

The entry to BookPeople with a marquee that reads, “READ BLACK AUTHORS // AMPLIFY BLACK STORIES”.

Went from Capitol protest to @bookpeople.bsky.social to buy On Tyranny.

Person at info desk hands me a copy. Another customer: “Come from the protest?”, fist bumps as I say yes.

While checking out, cashier says to go to @indivisible.org, sign up for updates.

Very Austin — in the best ways. ♥️

Introducing Data & Society’s Climate, Technology, and Justice Program

Today, we are publicly launching the new Climate, Technology, and Justice program at Data & Society

I can't think of a more important moment to be doing the hard work of gathering empirical evidence to track and mitigate AI's environmental and social repercussions

datasociety.net/announcement...

i asked this magic 8 ball diagram and it said yes

i still don't know what to post on here, and it will probably take me a year to figure it out, so for now this is an archive of odd canva and indesign things

Hi AVAnnotate-rs! The AVAnnotate team is hosting drop-in hours every Friday from 10-11am CT beginning tomorrow (1/24). Please fill out the Google form below if you're planning to drop by so we can share the Zoom link with you. 😊🎞️

snow day in texas means writing the first 2000 words of a prospectus!! what!!! when unexpected events collide

Huge AI data centre planned near Pincher Creek; access to natural gas helped seal the deal Gryphon Digital Mining has signed an agreement to buy a 344-hectare industrial site near Pincher Creek for AI computing.

Huge AI data centre planned near Pincher Creek; access to natural gas helped seal the deal

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SIGDOC 2025 proposals are due in 2 weeks!

For more information, please visit our website: sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2...