User-experience designer and researcher Caroline Sinders explains the planned focus of the panel (titled “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games”), the abuse she and family members had previously suffered from GamerGate types, the strange dynamic that developed around her panel proposal, and the even stranger responses of SXSW staff.
Category: issues
Los Angeles Is Hiring An Artist – To Help Reduce Traffic Deaths
“The artist will be embedded in the city’s Department of Transportation, to focus on how to save bike riders and pedestrians from being maimed or killed by automobiles.” Says the department’s general manager, “I want somebody who can understand the issues and think of them in different ways.”
Plan For Ground Zero Arts Center Has Changed Again
“The performing-arts center planned for the World Trade Center complex is shifting shape yet again, as its leaders work to deliver a slimmed-down project that can be built for roughly half the cost.”
Small Towns Using The Arts To Attract New Business And People? It’s Working In Wisconsin
“The arts are playing an increasingly important role in stimulating the local economies of small towns and rural communities throughout Wisconsin.”
Stop Expecting Artists To Work For Free – Or Worse, For ‘Exposure’
“The debate over working for free goes back a while now. But there are still people who haven’t heard the argument and think that ‘exposure’ of creative work is reason enough for people to give away their labors.”
Using Arts Education To Create Good Citizens And Thinkers: Remembering Black Mountain College
“Democracy is about making choices, and people need to take ownership of their choices. We don’t want to vote the way someone else tells us to. We want to vote based on beliefs we have chosen for ourselves. Making art is making choices. Art-making is practice democracy. Rice did not think of art-making as therapy or self-expression. He thought of it as mental training.”
Of Course You Can Ban Cellphones In The Theatre. But That’s Kinda Stupid (With All Due Respect)
“The bad news for theatre is that we live in a world full of hand-held technology, where word travels fast. And if the word travelling about our industry is that we bully newcomers who don’t know any better, those newcomers have more than enough alternative forms of entertainment to choose from.”
ISIS Has Found A Way To Make Its Destruction Of Ancient Sites And Artifacts Even Worse
“According to reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the extremist militant group tied at least three prisoners to Roman pillars in the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, rigged the structures with dynamite, and blew them up Monday afternoon.”
Why Video-Game Culture Is Stuck Between Leftism And Libertarians
“There’s a hypocrisy of claiming to do both, creating meaningful work worthy of the protection of free speech, ignoring the fact that there are very few efforts working to push discourse on any subject in a direction that would be uncomfortable … That’s when you know you’re saying something that matters, when people start getting bothered by it. … You don’t see furniture-makers talk about how they need free speech to protect the integrity of their appliances.”
Canada’s New Government Promises Big New Investment In Culture. What Might That Look Like?
“If the newly elected Liberals honour all their campaign promises – a big “if” with any political party – the Government of Canada will now invest an extra $1.35-billion in arts and culture by 2020. But do the Liberals understand that what Canada really needs is coherent cultural policy?”