Comments on: What other conferences/events are out these like SXSW, Burning Man and TED?

Question: What other conferences/events are out these like SXSW, Burning Man and TED?

brokekid — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:11:16 -0800

What other conferences/events are out these like SXSW, Burning Man and TED? I'm looking for events that encompass popculture, technology, film and/or music.

By: brokekid

brokekid — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:17:29 -0800

I'm mainly looking for high-profile events.

By: dersins

dersins — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:57:35 -0800

PICA (the Portland [Oregon] Institute of Contemporary Art) sponsors an annual festival called TBA (Time-based Art) that sounds like something you'd be interested in.

Whether it's high profile enough to meet your standards is for you to decide.

By: Quonab

Quonab — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:02:17 -0800

The question seems pretty vague. Is the Penny Arcade Expo something like what you are looking for? It's got music, technology and pop culture, but the audience is completely different from the three you list.

I don't know how high-profile it is, but I think it became a lot more influential after the demise of E3.

By: ericb

ericb — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:14:54 -0800

PopTech -- every fall in Camden, Maine.

By: sevenless

sevenless — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:37:52 -0800

There's Bumbershoot every Labor Day weekend in Seattle. It's mostly music, but there's lots of other visual and performance arts too.

By: rhizome

rhizome — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:42:06 -0800

Burning Man and TED in the same category?

By: brokekid

brokekid — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:59:40 -0800

I'm looking for progressive venues to attend to gather ideas and bring life into a very large project I'm working on. I realize TED and Burning Man are very different, but these are the types of events that are outside the establishment.

The events I'm looking for don't have to be music AND tech AND film AND so on, but have elements of each or elements of one.

By: Roach

Roach — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:21:04 -0800

Bonnaroo is getting there.

By: brokekid

brokekid — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:26:20 -0800

The working list:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddqvmtwd_0rmbdj8

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:40:01 -0800

ResFest

By: matildaben

matildaben — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:02:20 -0800

Experience Music Project POP conferences, Seattle

By: brokekid

brokekid — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:07:48 -0800

Here's the list so far:

http://www.bonnaroo.com/
http://www.bumbershoot.org/
http://www.burningman.com/
http://www.coachella.com/
The National Peace Corps Association Group Leaders Forum
Nonprofit Technology Conference
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
http://www.pennyarcadeexpo.com/
http://www.pica.org/programs/detail.aspx?eventid=150
http://www.poptech.com/
http://resfest.com/
http://www2.sundance.org/
http://www.supernova2007.com/
http://www.sxsw.com/
http://www.ted.com/

By: perpetualstroll

perpetualstroll — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:16:51 -0800

Idea City is a wonderful event. It is ridiculously expensive, but perhaps you can also find a way in by being a volunteer.

By: k7lim

k7lim — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:39:49 -0800

are any of these available as video downloads (like TED?)

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:54:58 -0800

GEL is like a poor man's TED. I've gone twice and will likely go every year I can going forward. It's just a bunch of fun talks on some aspect of experience design.

By: ericb

ericb — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:13:35 -0800

are any of these available as video downloads (like TED?)

POPTech has their Pop!Cast videos here.

By: ericb

ericb — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:27:43 -0800

There's also Scott Kirsner's Nantucket Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, held each May; Chris Shipley's DEMO conferences (videos); Jerry Michalski's Annual Retreats (this year in Oaxaca, Mexico | October 2007; invitation-only) and The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conferences.

By: ericb

ericb — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:42:53 -0800

Mustn't forget the über-exclusive Herbert Allen retreat in Sun Valley each summer -- this year's is going-on right now.

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:46:00 -0800

For interactive technology and music (and occasionally film and live video manipulation), it's hard to get much more fun than the Warper Party (NYC).

By: liquidindian

liquidindian — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:52:46 -0800

The Edinburgh Festival(s), as well as comedy and theatre, has a film festival, a music festival (T on the Fringe, and more highbrow stuff as part of the main official festival), a book festival, a TV festival, and possibly a games festival too. Wikipedia also mentions an internet festival, predictably called iFest.

By: scalefree

scalefree — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:06:20 -0800

Gotta add DefCon, the biggest conference of computer hackers anywhere, & also Maker Faire.

By: dnc

dnc — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:53:16 -0800

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