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Free Radical: Chelsea Manning with Vogue’s Sally Singer at SXSW 2018 [Video]

Chelsea Manning changed the course of history when she released hundreds of thousands of government documents. Less than a year after being released from prison, she joined Vogue's Sally Singer to discuss her new life, radical politics, and the consequences of unchecked state power at the 2018 SXSW Conference. >"I…

BY Neha Aziz
Chelsea Manning, Sally Singer

Barry Jenkins Film Keynote at SXSW 2018 [Video]

"My first film Medicine For Melancholy premiered at this festival, world premiered at this festival. I'd like to say that SXSW is kind of like the birth of Barry Jenkins filmmaker in a sort of way. I remember being here in 2008 and sitting in a room just like this,…

BY Neha Aziz
Keynote Barry Jenkins – Photo by Travis P. Ball/Getty images

Our Last Innovation? Technologists Weigh Risks and Rewards of AI

More than climate change, warfare or extremist ideology, Elon Musk is afraid of artificial intelligence. Many AI experts believe that children born today will be alive to see the creation of digital superintelligence, an AI that thoroughly outperforms humans in all areas of problem solving. When that happens, it could…

BY SXSWorld
Westworld cast and showrunners with Elon Musk. L-R: Jason Tanz, Jonathan Nolan, Musk, Lisa Joy, Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, James Marsden, Jeffrey Wright. Photo by Samantha Burkardt

Art Exhibit Ponders the Destiny of Our Online Musings

What is social media if not a giant, accidental time capsule that collects our not-well-kept secrets? And what kind of light will it cast upon us — both individually and collectively — in, say, 50 to 100 years? Digital artist Sarah Newman set out to explore these questions and collaborated…

BY SXSWorld
SXSW Art Program: The Future of Secrets. Photo by Ann Alva Wieding

Grulke Prize Winners Bridge Styles and Generations

An audacious L.A. band barely out of high school, a rootsy British singer-songwriter with a freshly-minted No. 1 Billboard Triple A hit, and one of pop music’s great polymaths beat out more than 2,000 other Showcasing Artists to take home SXSW’s 2018 Grulke Prizes. Conferred by a panel of festival…

BY SXSWorld

Singular Visions Drive SXSW Film Award Recipients

The Jury Award winners of SXSW 2018 are a testament to the festival's growth and highlights film subjects we don't often see in the cinematic landscape. Nilja Mu’min’s Jinn, Jim Cumming’s Thunder Road, and Carly Stone’s The New Romantic — the three winners in the Narrative Feature category — each…

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Inaugural Arrow Awards Honor Top Brand Activations

SXSW has long been known as a platform where up-and-coming musicians, filmmakers, entrepreneurs and technologists could make a name for themselves. Every year, some of the best and brightest come away from the event with awards that recognize their work. After the annual SXSW dust settles, Grulke Prize winners often…

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Women’s Voices Were Loud and Proud in Film 2018 Sessions

During a panel called “CherryPicks: Why Does a Critic’s Gender Matter?” at SXSW 2018, renowned music critic Ann Powers pointed out that “one of the reasons to bring women’s voices together is to show that they don’t think alike. When they’re marginalized, the idea of the one woman over here…

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