“Plutopia! – Best SXSW Interactive party to date”
– Stephen Moser, Austin Chronicle
Be a part of the hottest, most convergent official after event of South by Southwest Interactive
An official SXSW Interactive after event, Plutopia continues in 2009 at its new production titled “Living Systems.” Using convergence and sustainability as its substrate, this multimedia event will explore diverse aspects and perspectives of living systems, their structure, interaction, behavior and development, considered from the point of view of space, time, matter, information, energy and entropy and will embrace topics as diverse as self-organizing systems, future social and local networks, human and technology fusion and augmentation, cultural and communal integration and much more.
Performance and the arts will play a major role alongside exhibits and talks in presenting the ideas in a way that will make this yet another memorable, stimulating and fun Plutopia event.
We currently have a call out to the Austin art/tech communities for interactive art that explores various approaches to living systems. More information is available here.
Featuring:
Performance by British and Austin rock legend Ian ‘Mac’ McLagan and the Bump Band, The Heather Gold Show, talk by Bruce Sterling, interactive “living systems” art, talks, exhibits and more!
Last Year’s Sponsors Included:
Make Magazine/Craft Magazine/Maker Faire, Gridpoint Electric, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, SeeqPod, Slooh, Grande Communications, Digital Convergence Initiative, BazaarVoice, The Futures Lab, Polycot Associates, and Greenling.
A portion of this year’s proceeds benefit EFF-Austin (eff-austin.org) and Urban Roots (youthlaunch.org/programs/seeds.php)
Programming subject to change.
