Austin’s South by Southwest began in 1987 as a music festival. In 1994, it added interactive — a topic better known as “technology” — and film to the mix. And in recent years, it’s just exploded.

Felicia Day: Codex from smash web series The Guild will be an Interactive keynote speaker at SXSW 2011. The festival has just added a two-day international technology summit. The two-day event kicks ...

When most people think of South By Southwest Interactive (see TIME’s full coverage of SXSW 2012), minds drift to emerging technologies, the soft launches of new products and the street-level ...

Especially when walking down Sixth Street, it’s easy to tune out smells at SXSW. But alleyways aside, the aromas of malty beer, buttery popcorn, and sweaty concert venues are a visceral part of the ...

Peter O’Shea checks out a 3-D-printed prosthetic hand at the E-Nable booth at SXCreate at the Long Center. This free SXSW event highlighted new technology and science-based activities. Photo by ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Changes are coming to South by Southwest (SXSW) next year. Instead of spanning from one mid-March weekend to the next, SXSW 2026 will be two days shorter. SXSW 2026 is scheduled for ...

Thousands attending the first day of SXSW Interactive navigate the halls of the Convention Center in Austin on March 7, 2014. Credit: Rodolfo Gonzalez This week’s Digital Savant column is one of ...

It was day two at the recent SXSW Interactive Conference, and complaints from conference attendees were pervasive about everything from waiting in insufferably long lines to get into popular seminars ...

From Planned Parenthood's CEO to former VP Joe Biden, here are some of our most anticipated SXSW interactive sessions. It was a misunderstanding of online harassment that led to the creation of the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Attendees at the Interactive portion of Austin's South By ...

Reports of SXSW’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Despite headlines circulating online on Monday suggesting that the music component of the annual festival in Austin, Texas, is all but dead for ...