2016 Schedule

Interactive: March 11–15  •  Film: March 11–19  •  Music: March 15–20

Complete event listing for

Art, Science and Inspiration

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ANIMA by Nick Verstand
Art at SXSW
Westin Austin Downtown
Joplin Room
Friday, March 11
9:30AM - 6:00PM
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Welcome to SXSW 2016
Featured Session
Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
Friday, March 11
10:30AM - 10:45AM
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Hecho (Made) By You
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Friday, March 11
11:00AM - 11:30AM
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Interactive Insights into the Biology of Story
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Friday, March 11
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Untold Stories Behind Success with Failure:Lab
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Friday, March 11
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Learning New Things (Without Feeling Like a n00b)
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon FGH
Friday, March 11
2:00PM - 3:00PM
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DNA.Land: Mapping the World's Family Tree
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Friday, March 11
3:45PM - 4:45PM
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Keep Mars Weird
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Friday, March 11
3:45PM - 4:15PM
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Hacking Language: Bots, IF and Esolangs
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Friday, March 11
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mapping Spacetime: Time Travel via Timeless Maps
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Friday, March 11
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Silent Room by Simon Heijdens
Art at SXSW
5th and Trinity St
Friday, March 11
6:00PM - 10:00PM
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Bring Music, Dance and Art to Health Tech Innovation
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Saturday, March 12
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Stem Cells: From Controversy to Commercialization
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Saturday, March 12
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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DATE-ONOMICS: It's Not You, It's the Ratio
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Saturday, March 12
11:00AM - 11:30AM
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Modern Authorship: Richard Prince and Monkey Selfies
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Saturday, March 12
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Reprogramming the Genome with CRISPR
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Saturday, March 12
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Silent Room by Simon Heijdens
Art at SXSW
5th and Trinity St
Saturday, March 12
12:00PM - 10:00PM
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Bio/Tech: DARPA's Moonshots for the 21st Century
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Saturday, March 12
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Build the Crowdsourcing Community of Your Dreams
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Saturday, March 12
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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The Brain Electric: Merging Minds and Machines
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Saturday, March 12
3:30PM - 4:00PM
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Collaborative Biohacking
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Saturday, March 12
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Give It Away to Get Rich: Open Cultural Heritage
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Saturday, March 12
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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A Generational Challenge: Improving Nine Billion Lives
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Saturday, March 12
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Television: The Future of the Most Powerful Medium
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Saturday, March 12
5:00PM - 5:30PM
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Why the World Needs Biological Design
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Saturday, March 12
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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ANIMA by Nick Verstand 
Art at SXSW
Westin Austin Downtown
Joplin Room
Sunday, March 13
9:30AM - 6:00PM
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Breakdown to Brilliance: Honoring Insanity
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Sunday, March 13
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Extreme Science: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Sunday, March 13
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Astronaut Ron Garan: Earthgazing 101
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Sunday, March 13
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Good Advice: Fortune Cookies Don't Have to Crumble
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Sunday, March 13
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Mentor Session: Kris Krug
Mentor Session
JW Marriott
Room 503
Sunday, March 13
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Reversing Murphy's Law: The Serendipity Choice
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Sunday, March 13
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Surviving the Red Planet
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Sunday, March 13
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Better Than a Jetpack: Science's Next Decade
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Sunday, March 13
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Oceans vs Space: Which Is Really the Final Frontier?
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Sunday, March 13
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Ready for a Revolution? 30 Days to Jolt Your Life
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Sunday, March 13
5:00PM - 5:30PM
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Innovate or Die: Build Lasting Technologies
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Monday, March 14
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Special Death: The Import in Ephemera
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Monday, March 14
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Tech and Theater: Audience Agency in Layered Reality
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Monday, March 14
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Ignite SXSW: Vice-Versa
Ignite™
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Monday, March 14
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Page to Stage: Creating New Art from Old Plays
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Monday, March 14
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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SCIWARS: Dark Side Tactics to Fight for Science
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Monday, March 14
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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DIY NSA: Our Dubious Database of All the Dutch
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Monday, March 14
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Ignite SXSW: Behind the Curtain
Ignite™
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Monday, March 14
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Intimate Outposts: Up-Close Drama via Text Message
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Monday, March 14
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Burning Man: From Free Play to Innovation Science
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Monday, March 14
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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The Confidence Game: The Power (and Price) of Stories
Featured Session
Austin Convention Center
Room 18ABCD
Monday, March 14
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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#DistractinglySexy: Fighting Science Sexism Online
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Monday, March 14
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Ignite SXSW: Futurama
Ignite™
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Monday, March 14
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Interactive Dynamic Design: Fashion and Architecture
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Tuesday, March 15
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Mentor Session: Emily Jane Steinberg
Mentor Session
JW Marriott
Room 505
Tuesday, March 15
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Wearing Sound
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Tuesday, March 15
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Art for All: A Look at The Art Assignment
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 1
Tuesday, March 15
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Linking Art and Science Through Technology
Solo / Dual / Panel
Westin Austin Downtown
Paramount 2-3
Tuesday, March 15
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Ideas Thrive When You Are a Torchbearer!
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Tuesday, March 15
1:00PM - 1:30PM
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Why Happiness Is Hard and How to Make It Easier
Keynote
Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
Tuesday, March 15
2:00PM - 3:00PM
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