Complete event listing for
Art, Science and Inspiration
Friday, March 7
Hackerspaces Unite! is a meetup and workshop for people interested in starting a hackerspace, people who have started a hackerspace, and people who are members of hackerspaces to pool ideas and share experiences. It's a …
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Martin Bogomolni
Covering topics such as manufacturing in America vs China, The Manufacturing Future, and patents in the age of makers.……
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Jonathan Placa
For folks of all disciplines interested in biohacking: Calling all biologists, DIYers, engineers, artists, coders, designers, and any others who are bio-curious. Join us! This SXSW Create session at the Long Center is F…
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Karen Ingram
Good work is all about process, yet we tend to only share the products of that process, and not the process itself. Learn how opening up and sharing your process brings you closer to an audience, adds value to your work,…
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Austin Kleon
Do you dream of perfect serifs, swashes and ligatures? Interested in marketing your newest typeface? Want some feedback on your creative endeavors? Or maybe just have the desire to catch up on the latest gossip in the Ho…
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Jim Kidwell
The ideology of open source is simple: Share what you make, collaborate with others to improve it, and repeat. This started out in software, but has exploded into all areas of creativity. Hardware, art, music, and even c…
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Tom Callaway
Jeremiah Owyang has shown that the future of business lies in the Collaborative Economy, “an economic model of shared ownership and access between people, startups and corporations all working together.” There’s been a …
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Andrew Barton, Anousheh Ansari, Bob Richards, Ruben Nunez
Do you love your toys? Does your desk resemble a small museum to your most passionate pop culture obsessions? Even if your collection isn't complete, we want to hear about it. Join toy lovers, creators, and innovators …
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Lizzy Newsome
China is often portrayed as an enormous factory that pumps out products invented elsewhere. But as global "maker culture" is transitioning from a hobby into a profession, China is playing a significant role in changes to…
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Silvia Lindtner
Democratized innovation is fuelling a new industrial revolution. Traditional brands need to disrupt themselves before someone else does it for them. Smart CEOs know that innovation doesn't happen at head office any more…
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David Caygill
Saturday, March 8
It goes without saying that ultimately, the success of Interactive Media depends on its ability to engage human brains. It also goes without saying that, in principle, brain science could potentially inform Interactive …
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Alfredo Fontanini, Jim Bower, Veronica Galvan
Creativity allows us to break through monotony and express the inexpressible. As creators and builders, we push ourselves to the limits in all respects, driving change through our ideas. Carrying this responsibility requ…
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Gopika Prabhu
The technological era presents a major challenge to poetry: brains accustomed to digital speeds are trained to consume information quickly, to scan through lists and posts looking for usable content—to PLUCK instead of t…
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David O'Brien, David Shook, Mandy Kahn
The goal of the panel is to discuss some of the emerging trends in the agritech space that are driving food production yields needed to feed a population of over 10 billion people. This will include precision agriculture…
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Caleb Harper, Marion Swaybill, Mohammad Jhaveri
In the space where the outdoors meets tech, adventure awaits. This core conversation will discuss wearables, apps, and cameras used on and around the bike. It’ll continue with how the quantified self produces big data, h…
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DL Byron
Remember when the public had to watch Walter Cronkite and the evening news to learn what NASA was doing? Yeah, neither do we. Today, using technology you can connect and collaborate with NASA and astronauts directly from…
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John Yembrick
This will be a compelling interactive conversation where all are invited to share a personal story, secret, confession or apology. Public storytelling is an ancient art form that has experienced resurgence in our cultu…
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Sadie Smythe, Stirling Gardner
At the beginning of almost any creative venture -- whether it's a New Yorker cartoon or a Fortune-500 product launch -- sits a blank page and a person holding a pen. This panel brings together two masters of the art of …
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Henry Copeland, JB Hopkins, Matthew Diffee
Digital design is becoming more fluid and less tethered to the desktop or smart phone. Visual communicators and artists are seeking bigger and bolder ways to crossbreed the real world and the boundless universe of the i…
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Chad Hutson, Jarrett Smith, Sougwen Chung, Tony Romain
If you are fascinated by AI and robotics, and interested in how you can create and customize your own 3D printed plastic pal, then “21st Century Robot” by Brian David Johnson is for you. As an author and Intel futurist, …
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Brian David Johnson
Brian David Johnson will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "21st Century Robot".……
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Brian David Johnson
What are the 100 objects that future historians will pick to define our 21st century? A javelin thrown by an 'enhanced' Paralympian far further than any normal human? Virtual reality interrogation equipment used by polic…
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Adrian Hon
Adrian Hon will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "A History of the Future in 100 Objects ".……
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Adrian Hon
The 'Internet of Things' is finally here. Every week a new 'connected device' appears with a slick video and a remarkably trivial application. Why are these devices so consistently failing to fit into our lives in meanin…
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Ross Atkin
Is responsive web design the wrong paradigm? Do you architect & design for devices, browsers or end users? Let’s challenge how we think about responsive design. This session fosters the exploration of the current ratio…
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Graham Lambertson
There is no doubt that words are powerful, but how can the application of big data impact the effectiveness of the way our human language is perceived? There are infinite variations to express one message, and the exact …
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Guy Krief, Michael Collins
Believe it or not, Pinterest is a whole lot more than just DIY and mason jars. There is some big technology being built behind a fast moving, and majorly scaling service. Pinterest grew to billions of page views per mon…
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Marty Weiner, Yash Nelapati
Americans seem just as obsessed with food as they are technology, but how is our near constant state of connectivity influencing what chefs put on the menu? How is our geographical density and propensity for moving from …
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Addie Broyles, Andy Potter, Brian Bordainick
Exploring how to build a localized media that supports and strengthens independent artistic and maker communities through digital content and commerce free of commodification. The sum of honest subjective expression amon…
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Nicole Brydson
NASA isn't just sending rovers to Mars and astronauts to the International Space Station. Find out how the space agency is studying our home planet and why it's working to make the Earth science data it collects understa…
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Andrew Revkin, Doug Ellison, Michael Greene, Veronica McGregor
How will wearables change the world? What’s the “killer app”? Context. In this session, we'll look at how wearables benefit from context, and how the two will inevitably be linked in the very near future.…
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Myriam Joire
Come join Paul Qui and other notable chefs for this talk around the growing trend of the DIY scene in food. Meaning, smaller, personable, minimal frill -- primary focus on food and flavors, and not on pretense. As people…
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Laura Sawicki, Meghan McCarron, Ned Elliott, Paul Qui
Photography is changing at a rapid pace: never before have we been able to share so quickly with so many people, and with such frequency. Exploring our photographic interests today and the technology we currently have at…
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Dan Rubin
Do you have a favorite tool that you’d like to let other people know about? Then come to the first official SXSW Cool Tools Show & Tell! Bring your favorite tool (hand tools, maps, how-to books, vehicles, software, speci…
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Mark Frauenfelder
The Founding Fathers were do-it-yourselfers, from Jefferson's explicit idealization of the self-sufficient yeoman farmer to Franklin's intrepid experimentation with electricity. Over the centuries, a return to this kind …
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Alice Brooks, Dylan Tweney, Eric Gradman, Mitch Altman
So you want to be an inventor? You have the talent, means and desire to make things. Maybe you have even invested in the right paintbrushes, digital programs, circuit boards and power tools? But wait...agencies are in th…
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Ed Brojerdi, Matt Powell
An increasing number of brave researchers are venturing out from the ivory towers of academia to pursue their own independent research. This new culture of indie science attracts investigators with the freedom to develop…
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Cindy Wu, Daniel Grushkin, Ethan Perlstein, Jacob Shiach
The United States was founded with maker spirit – fix what you have, make what you need and work together to achieve the best outcome. The maker movement is now rekindling those ideals in this generation. TechShop, a nat…
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Mark Hatch
As deeply enmeshed as technology has become in our lives, there is one place where we still squint to read small labels, strain to hear static-filled audio guides, and wrestle with disorienting paper maps: the art museum…
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Leslie Wolke
Immersive experiences were invented in the theater where performers and set designers transport audiences to different times and places. Merging theater with 3D technology extends the experience by removing constraints o…
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Benoît Marini
Crowdsourced art is an increasingly popular practice where artists use the Internet as a participatory platform to directly engage the public in the co-creation of art. In view of its reliance on the artistic contributio…
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Ioana Literat
There are concepts found within architecture and industrial design, fields that have exists for hundreds of years, that carry over to the relatively still fetal stage of interaction design. Considering and looking into t…
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Michael Senkow
A thousand personal photographs lost for sixty years and then found, in a secondhand store. Lost and Found tells the story of an anonymous couple's past. Who are these people? Why were their photographs abandoned? If a…
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Jeff Phillips
Members, makers, and entrepreneurs of the 3D printing and greater hardware community are all welcome to hear and explore what's next in 3D printing. This will be an informal panel Q&A from featured guests in the business…
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Bartley Gillan
Mark Hatch will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers".……
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Mark Hatch
Digital painting is everywhere. Do you finger-paint on your iPad? Are you overly attached to your Wacom tablet? Do you dream in HSB? You might be a digital painter. Early adopters of digital painting have been creatively…
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Leah Davis
Contagious Magazine Co-Founder Paul Kemp-Robertson and Leo Burnett Global Head of Social and Mobile James Kirkham take a look into their crystal ball, offering SXSW attendees a head-start on the most significant technolo…
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James Kirkham, Paul Kemp-Robertson
Sexy technology, elegant UX, and savvy media buys are all of secondary importance when it comes to crafting engaging, social experiences. The most valuable digital currency for creating participatory content is in fact, …
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Ivan Cash
How do organizations such as Burning Man, Google, Maker Faire and The Flux Foundation enable people to consistently make such incredible inventions? What can businesses learn from these wildly creative and successful gro…
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Aaron Koblin, Jessica Hobbs, Louise Glasgow, Will Chase
Following the success of the Design and Science: More than a Pretty Picture panel at SXSW 2013, we hope to continue the conversation about the creative side of discovery and the new approaches to communicating science t…
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Felice Frankel, Jennifer Jongsma
What happens when you take a photo of every fragment of your life? All those micro moments that are recorded and analysed. Has your visual existence been enhanced? What would you learn from your signature photographic a…
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David McNamara
Mostly known for his volume suggesting lettering work, Dado was once regarded as a "3D type magician" by renowned typographer Ale Paul—even though, perhaps more impressively, all his designs are made entirely in 2D. At S…
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Dado Queiroz
Sunday, March 9
People imagine space software to be sleek and modern. But the tools NASA use today look nothing like their Star Trek counterparts. Instead, they're text-based, neon-colored, and complicated with age. This is a shame, but…
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Sam Hashemi, Steve Hillenius
In the age of social media, everyone is a curator (or at least they think they are). Media-rich networks have empowered anyone with an interest in art to both disseminate and publish their own creative images and groupin…
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Jennifer Yin, Kathryn Jaller, Sarah Bailey Hogarty, Willa Koerner
Digital technology can be a powerful tool for solving real problems in the communities and societies in which we live. Come network, mingle and brainstorm with people who share your interest in promoting the social good…
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David Waldron
ATTENTION: THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL. Please choose another session to attend. Thank you. Whether it’s scribbled on a cocktail napkin, strikes like lightning, or wakes you up in the middle of the night, inspiration can …
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Alexander Braden, Breyna Fries, Courtney Tye
The future of libraries is here for the making. Library Machines is the time and space to get folks together to imagine, design and market new Library Machines. What’s a Library Machine? They follow a little formula, …
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Jeff Goldenson, Sidsel Bech-Petersen
The handmade economy is a vibrant and growing sector, with increased online and in-person platforms to help makers and creatives build their businesses and sell their work. As events like the Renegade Craft Fair and Mark…
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Courtney Klossner, Eleanor Whitney, Rena Tom, Sharon Fain
In just three years, Humans of New York has amassed an audience of millions and become a #1 NYT bestselling book. In this talk, Brandon Stanton will cover everything he's learned about audience building, crying alone i…
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Brandon Stanton
In just three years, Humans of New York has amassed an audience of millions and become a #1 NYT bestselling book. In this talk, Brandon Stanton will cover everything he's learned about audience building, crying alone i…
Brandon Stanton will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Humans of New York”.……
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Brandon Stanton
Serendipity happens when we stumble upon an unknown book or album tucked away on the shelves... and it thrills us. In this session, we will use the online music community What.CD as a model for thinking about how to mea…
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Paul Vinelli
The James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s most ambitious scientific experiment. It is the successor to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, and will be 100x more powerful. The Webb Telescope, taller than a four-story…
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Alberto Conti, Amber Straughn, Blake Bullock, Natalie Batalha
Who gives a f*ck about techies? We don’t. We prefer to consider those at the fringes of life. Yes, we’re talking about incapacitation and death. It’s not fun. It’s not sexy. And it certainly won’t inspire the next wave o…
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Evan Carroll, Virginia Ingram
Circumnavigating the globe sounds exclusive to Magellan – but it’s shameful to think that type of go-anywhere travel isn’t accessible to everyone in the year 2014. What’s keeping you from traveling to the destinations of…
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Lee Abbamonte
Do traditional arts forms inform gaming and new media art? John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, stated: "It is not about the old and the new. It is about what is good." How do today’s game develop…
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Chris Solarski, Paul Toprac, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, Sheldon Pacotti
Is DNA the programming language of the future? What role do genetics and personalized medicine play in the healthcare revolution? Can big data and community unlock secrets to a healthier life? Join Anne Wojcicki, CEO and…
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Anne Wojcicki