For the last two years, I’ve taken a group of Ravensbourne students to SXSW in Austin, Texas. I’ll be taking a group again in 2015, but I’ve also proposed presenting a panel about the live streaming events I have been working on over the last couple of years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whether the […]
One of Ravensbourne’s key focuses of study is how stories are now being told across multiple platforms, generally called transmedia. There was a rather significant panel at SXSW on a new venture in this area, called Defiance, which is both a game and a TV series, developed at the same time, rather than one after the other, as is usually […]
If you ask the veterans of SXSW, the event is as much about the people you meet accidentally as it is about the workshops and presentations you attend, and today has really underlined this. Right from the waiting line for the bus into the show, the serendipitous conversations have been brilliant. At 9am, we were […]
SXSW Interactive is allegedly the greatest event in the world for anyone in the creative Web and technology industries. Sitting here on a plane containing select former colleagues from my previous life as a computer magazine editor, it certainly feels like we’re heading for something big and important, something that crosses over between genres and […]
