SXSW (which stands for South By Southwest) is a week-long annual music, film and “emerging technologies” festival that takes place in Austin, TX. The SXSW Interactive festival celebrates the creativity and passion behind the coolest new media technologies. It’s held in Austin, Texas, March 7-11, 2008. What’s hotter than smart geeks talking about sex?

There are hundreds of panel submissions. There’s a panel picker to help you select and vote for your favorites, but I’ve made it easy for you to vote for these (registration required), and send some really smart bloggers and pals (Elizabeth, Lux Nightmare, Cory Silverberg, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Chris Hall, Lisa Vandever, Audacia Ray and Violet Blue) who write and think about sex and sexuality to the conference:

• Elizabeth Wood’s Pink Ghetto Blasters: Destigmatizing Sex via Online Community Building with Chris, Rachel, and Lux.
• Cory Silverberg’s The Future of Sex in Interactive Narrative
• Cory Silverberg’s When No Means 01001: Sexual Ethics and Interactivity
• Lisa Vandever’s The Porn Police: Know the Rules
• Violet Blue’s Sexual Privacy Online

Voting is currently scheduled to end at 11:59 pm on Friday, September 21. Please go register and vote. And please help spread the word, and get the vote out.

I want to go. . . so many conferences, so little time. I’m planning on going to Arse Elektronica and Sex 2.0.

I didn’t tell them, but we’re all sharing a room. Should be fun! ;-D

Related posts

• links for 2008-02-18 (0)
• Sugasm #92 (0)
• Sugasm #122 (1)
• links for 2008-05-15 (0)