Art

Day 5 Recap: This Is Us, Street Art, and Wisconsin Cheese

We’ve been lucky to have some amazing weather lately, despite our one day of boiling heat. I’ve been biking into SXSW every day from my home in east Austin, and this morning was particularly crisp. I got here earlier than normal because I’ve been so eager to get into the This Is Us cast panel […]

Panel Recap: Technology’s Impact on Digital Storytelling

One of the leaders in digital storytelling is DreamWorks Animation, known for hit movies such as Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda and more. On Tuesday, leaders from DreamWorks Animation were joined by technology industry leaders of HP and Intel for a panel titled, Technology’s Impact on Digital Storytelling, about technology’s impact […]

Preview: Decrypting the Universe: Science and Art at CERN

  Based in Geneva, Laura Couto Rosado is a co-founder and product/interaction designer at Digital Alchemy, a design school. She is also a teacher in the Master Media Design department at HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design. Right now, she is spending three months at CERN exploring the relationship between technology and design. She […]

SXSWistful

I’m sitting in a darkened theater watching a comedy show. The room seats 90 people. It’s a late show, and I only stayed out because there’s a writer from The Daily Show performing. Then the host comes out and says, “We have a very special guest with us tonight…Mr. Judd Apatow.” That’s right, the director […]

Thinking About SXSW

It is nice to get to speak in my own voice after so much of the last week was saying what was said and offering a take on someone else’s  point of view. It feels good to get to put my thoughts down on all that has transpired this past week. SXSW was a  tremendous […]

Science & Art: A Means to Meaning

So many of use have been wowed in recent years. Recent being since the time of Galileo and Copernicus, by the images of the cosmos. How these are made and why they move us so deeply. Astrophysics goes to Hollywood at SXSW brought together Dr. Robert Hurt, Dr. Donna Cox, and Dr. Frank Summers to […]