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Photo by Humanities Institute at UT Austin on August 19, 2025. May be an image of office and text that says 'Creating Surtaining Humanities Research Humanities Institute The University of Texas: Austin WE ARE HIRING Student Technician The Humanities Institute (HI) is seeking a graduate student to support website management, communications, and research development. Responsibilities include: Updating and organizing website content •Creating graphics and event communications •Assisting with social media and newsletters Supporting research resources for faculty and students •Preparing grant/fellowship workshop materials Researching funding opportunities Hours per week: 10 hrs/wk Pay rate: $28/hr Appointment period: 8/16/25 12/31/25 (with the possibility of continuing in spring 2026) *Contact Jeff Meserve provide a resume for more details: meserve@austin.utexas.edu

📢 Graduate student opportunity! Join our team this Fall 2025 to support website management, communications, and research development at the Humanities Institute.

📩 For details, contact Jeff Meserve: meserve@austin.utexas.edu

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Me mer mo stage

On Monday night, DFMI sponsored an event at Dadalab's MeMerMo focused on energy, which included three performances from local sound artists.

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Red and blue lasers

microscope on fluid

Lasers and smoke

Microscope image

This morning, on Day 3, Claire Fitch led another workshop titled "Co/lapse: Lasering Fields," which figured the field as a volume and temporal process, positioning our research as happening within.

Thanks to Rachel for some of these photos!

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DFMI participants using hydrophones at the dam

DFMI participants at Mozart's on the lake

And DWRL AD Claire Fitch led part two of the workshop: "Distances & Depths" at the Tom Miller dam. We used EMF, hydrophones, thermal imaging, handheld scanners, and microscopes to explore the energetic lifeline of Austin.

We recapped at Mozart's on the river.

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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.

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Craig giving talk

Finally, Dr. Craig Campbell, Associate Professor of Anthropology, delivered our first of two talks: "Retrieving the Solar from the Anus: Mazing Zines to Explore the Banal Energetics of the Sun."

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ADs and participants work around a table on kinetic machines

A kinetic machine lights up

DWRL ADs Claire Fitch and Kimber Harrison led our first workshop, "Kinetic Chaos: (Un)Direction in Motion," which explored chaos not as a disorder to be directed, but as a dynamic, generative force.

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black and white photo of participants and windroom in the center

@caseyboyle.fail opened up the week on Monday morning, and participants also had the chance to snatch some propulsions in windroom: our first circulation of the week.

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Today marks the halfway point of on-site week during DFMI 2025! Here's a thread of what we've been up to for the past few days 🧵

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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!

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DFMI 2025: ENERGY - DAY 3

Today we start off with a talk by @melhogan.bsky.social titled "The Carbon Costs of AI Companionship."

Drawing on critical media theory and the environmental humanities, the talk situates the fantasy of scalable AI companionship within logics of platform capitalism.

🤖💡💸

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Yellow seed paper in dirt.

And in our second exercise of the week, "Wayfinding: From Nodes to Pathways," participants explored energy and energetic systems as methods for situating fields.

Each assignment is printed out on seed paper, growing into wildflowers.

"Your impulses are their own kinds of energy: follow them."

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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!

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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.

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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.

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