Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been shaking up U.S. politics since her upset win last November; now she’s one of the big names just announced as a speaker for SXSW 2019.

Get ready for the fourth wall to vaporize at SXSW 2019, as the conference has just announced VR cinema pioneer Jessica Brillhart as its latest keynote speaker.

SXSW is advancing fast, and not just according to the calendar. The programming for the annual March gathering is a reliable indicator of what’s next in tech; given today’s announcement’s heavy emphasis on its Blockchain & Cryptocurrency track, you have to wonder, is 2019 the year blockchain technology breaks big with the masses?

Two of the Scottish Lowlands' finest will be in the Texas Hill Country next March, as Garbage singer Shirley Manson and Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches are headlining the first round of announced speakers for next year's SXSW.

As a political satirist, what do you do when your president is a walking caricature whose remarks and behavior are so beyond insanity they resemble something closer to parody than real-life? What do you do when the news headlines could be mistaken for surrealist humor? What do you do when the jokes too easily write themselves?

In a great year for video games, the SXSW Gaming Awards ceremony honored everything from the year's most-talked-about creations to Gamer's Voice Awards winners chosen by expo attendees.

Tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons have been used since the Seventies as an excuse to get together with friends and escape to another world far from the daily grind. But if your job involves making video games or cartoons, the line between work and playtime can get a little blurry.

I attended the "Immerse Yourself: AR and VR in Museums and the Arts" panel at SXSW on Thursday – the day after experiencing Michael Jacobs’ five-minute VR work called GFE in the Festival’s Virtual Cinema.

This is director Lester Francois’ documentary of the Australian street artist RONE, a man who for years has been turning walls inside abandoned buildings in Melbourne into immense, monochrome portraits of women.