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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 🧵

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!

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. 🤖💡💸

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. ⚡️🖥️🛜🔌

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

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.