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Join The New School at SXSW 2020 as we celebrate our world changing faculty, students, and alumni.
Meet up with our community to discuss human-centered innovation, the pursuit of radical equality, and how empathetic design can address today’s most pressing challenges.
Presented by The New School.
The City of Austin has cancelled the March dates for SXSW and SXSW EDU. SXSW will faithfully follow the City’s directions.
We are devastated to share this news with you. “The show must go on” is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place. We are now working through the ramifications of this unprecedented situation.
As recently as Wednesday, Austin Public Health stated that “there’s no evidence that closing SXSW or any other gatherings will make the community safer.” However, this situation evolved rapidly, and we honor and respect the City of Austin’s decision. We are committed to do our part to help protect our staff, attendees, and fellow Austinites.
We are exploring options to reschedule the event and are working to provide a virtual SXSW online experience as soon as possible for 2020 participants, starting with SXSW EDU. For our registrants, clients, and participants we will be in touch as soon as possible and will publish an FAQ.
We understand the gravity of the situation for all the creatives who utilize SXSW to accelerate their careers; for the global businesses; and for Austin and the hundreds of small businesses – venues, theatres, vendors, production companies, service industry staff, and other partners that rely so heavily on the increased business that SXSW attracts.
We will continue to work hard to bring you the unique events you love. Though it’s true that our March 2020 event will no longer take place in the way that we intended, we continue to strive toward our purpose – helping creative people achieve their goals.
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As a co-founder and principal of the Brooklyn based architectural lighting design practice, Sighte Studio, Francesca Bastianini is committed to a practice that folds education, research, and community engagement into design. Drawing on her background in theatre and psychology, Francesca's design work is attentive to people's interaction with space, considering both an individual's well-being and their aesthetic experience. She serves on the DLFNY board as the President and teaches Graduate Lighting students in the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons the New School for Design.
Alex Pappas-Kalber is a co-founder Sighte Studio, an architectural lighting design practice based in Brooklyn, NY. At Sighte, Alex steers the design direction of the studio’s public work along with sharing an active role in the leadership and management of the office. She has extensive experience with lighting design for public spaces, urban cityscapes, and infrastructure – including award winning public projects in North America. Alex also co-leads the studio’s ongoing field-based research project in Gowanus Brooklyn which explores and records the dynamic nature of the urban nighttime environment, and asks how lighting performance guidelines might be integrated into city zoning plans to support positive change in urban communities.
Emily Chu designs interactive experiences using data visualization, machine learning and motion. Her practice focuses on computational & experiential art and design, as well as data visualizations and animations on governance and policy topics such as algorithmic fairness, income-share agreements and the Movement for Black Lives.
Artist and designer Ben Rubin is the Director of the Center for Data Arts at The New School, where he is an Associate Professor of Design. Rubin’s innovative applications of media and information technology have been seen at museums, public spaces, and performance venues around the world. Rubin’s best-known work includes the media installations Moveable Type (2007), a permanent artwork for the lobby of the New York Times building, and Listening Post (2002). In 2012, he was commissioned by Landmarks, the public art program of UT Austin, to create And That's The Way it Is, an installation for the University's College of Communications. Rubin’s groundbreaking projection design for Arguendo, a play by Elevator Repair Service, earned him an Obie Award in 2014. Rubin’s design clients have included Microsoft, HP, and IBM, as well as architects SOM and Pelli Clarke Pelli, DS+R, and Ennead.
Lee Anderson is a Chicago-based designer and creative strategist, working at the intersection where design and lifestyle meet technology and innovation. After four years of organizing FashionTech conferences and events, including the first Paris FashionTech Week, and Pioneer Mode conference in New York, she launched FAAR in 2017. FAAR is a platform dedicated to inspire, advance, and support interdisciplinary collaboration between the Fashion and Aerospace industries. Through research, community events, presentations, and workshops, the platform brings together stakeholders across industries to build a scalable and highly engaged network.
Jen Begeal is a writer and producer who has developed multiple projects on social justice and activism for clients such as Current TV, Verizon Fios, and A&E. She has developed large scale marketing campaigns for entertainment clients including Universal Studios, Disney and Netflix. Jen co-founded StoryCode, the world’s first not-for-profit transmedia education organization and later founded StoryForward NYC, an organization dedicated to the future of storytelling, producing events for New York’s entertainment and technology communities. As a writer Jen has published numerous articles on marketing, transmedia, and digital storytelling. She teaches Transmedia Producing and Digital Storytelling at The New School in New York City. She is currently producing a transmedia project called Red House about missing and murdered Indigenous women with a team of Indigenous producers and co-writers.
Tanis Parenteau (Métis-Cree/Sioux), is a New York based actor and filmmaker. Favourite recent credits include guest starring on Billions opposite Paul Giamatti, Designated Survivor opposite Kiefer Sutherland, House of Cards opposite Michael Kelly and originating the lead role Jane/Le-le-wa'you in the World Premiere of Manahatta at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Tanis is also a rising narrator in Audiobooks--she has voiced Trail of Lightning, Storm of Locusts, I Am Sacagawea and The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. Tanis holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from New School for Drama.
