Joey Lopez: Media, Advocacy, and Community
Joey Lopez, PhD is the Media Lab Director in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Receiving his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. in New Media at UT Austin in…
Joey Lopez, PhD is the Media Lab Director in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Receiving his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. in New Media at UT Austin in…
Jon and Scoop interview Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer for South by Southwest (SXSW). SXSW is perhaps the world’s largest annual media festival. The SXSW conference has over 70,000 attendees…
“Joy Cunningham knows that theatre saves lives. She’s been creating original theatre for 20 years and working with young people all her life. She also knows folks want to have…
Plutopians met Robert Jackson Bennett at “Science Fiction House” during SXSW 2019. Thats where we began our fascinating discussion about the blurry border between fantasy and science fiction. Robert is…
Author, lecturer, critic, and culture jammer Mark Dery gave this talk, “Let’s Get Lost: an Experiment in Controlled Digression,” at the ACTLab 2019 conference in June. (For more information on…
Author Lewis Shiner has written nine novels and many short stories. His latest novel is Outside the Gates of Eden, a novel of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The…
In part 2 of our interview with Joe Nick Patoski, we focus on essential Texas and Austin food, and on Austin’s unique cultural history and evolution. We cover a lot…
Joe Nick Patoski gives us an insider’s analysis of the changes wrought upon the state capital and “sleepy college town” that became an alternative to the stereotype of “Texas Culture.”
Vinay Gupta is CEO of Mattereum, an organization dedicated to “Organizing the world’s property and making it universally accessible and useful” – riffing on the Google mission statement and applying…
Writer and cultural critic Mark Dery has written (and fed into) cyberculture, Afrofuturism (a term he coined), and evil clowns, but his latest work is about the surreal illustrator and…