• Posted on 5 Apr 2023
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UPDATE: VOTING CLOSED

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE UTS FASS STAFF WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THESE OUTSTANDING SXSW SESSION PROPOSALS!

SXSW Sydney received over 1,400 proposals for panels, presentations, workshops, meet-ups and mentor sessions covering ground-breaking ideas across multiple conference programming tracks. The process is part democratic through public voting, and part curated by the SXSW Sydney Team. What sessions do you want to see on the main stage? It's time to vote!

Below are some of the dazzling SXSW Sydney sessions proposals from UTS FASS staff and collaborators.
Vote for them by clicking on the link. Vote once for each proposal but feel free to vote for as many proposals as you like! Voting closes 11:59pm, Tuesday 11 April 2023.

Fields of Truth Telling: Indigeneity and Voice 
Graham Akhurst, Anne Maree Payne, Archie Thomas

Political activism and popular music—the legacy of Pauline Pantsdown and ‘I don’t like it 
Gregory Ferris, Simon Hunt

Beyond Hope(toun). What do we do with dead live music venues? 
Glenn Dormand, Gregory Ferris, Liz Giuffre, John Wardle

Juggling family and work/life balance in the music industry
Shelley Brunt, Liz Giuffre, KJ Taintin, Bronwyn Tasker

Women and Minority Genders in Music: How are we doing in 2023?
Shoshana Rosenberg, Barrie Shannon, Felicity Wilcox

Spatial audio in music production: histories, technologies, markets
David Cooper, Stefan Du Randt, Ian Stevenson, Ceri Thomas
Terminological Anxiety: Towards an interpretative ethics of AI across professions
Andrew Brooks, Suneel Jethani, Astrid Lorange, Linda Przhedetsky

The Future of Australian Screen Directing: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly 
Sara Kern, Alex Munt, Daina Reid, Rowan Woods

The myth of the single user: how XR can help us embrace diverse minds and diverse bodies 
Ben Joseph Andrews, Scott Brown, Emma Roberts, Julia Scott-Stevenson

Imagining and creating climate resilient futures with XR 
Ben Joseph Andrews, Emma Roberts, Julia Scott-Stevenson

The Anxious Creative
Jeff Crabtree, Julie Crabtree
Post #metoo – where to now for the Australian music industry?
Jeff Crabtree, Julie Crabtree, Tamara Georgopoulos, Poppy Reid

Designing the future of learning (in the age of AI?) 
Keith Heggart, Kuva Jacobs

Children Who Can't Feed: How Interactive Video is Changing the Lives of Children with Complex Feeding Difficulties 
Nick Hopwood and others

Is your SXSW Sydney session not here? If you're a UTS FASS community member (staff/student/alum) with a SXSW session proposal, contact fass.engagement@uts.edu.au to let us know asap and we'll add you to the list!

Voting closes 11:59pm, Tuesday 11 April 2023.

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