Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2011 about Photography on Friday 11th March

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• Kris Krüg

  by Kris Krüg

  Photographer Kris Krüg will be stopping by the SX Bookstore to meet fans and sign copies of his book, Killer Photos with Your iPhone.

  • Photography

  At 3:05pm to 4:05pm, Friday 11th March

  In Ballroom D Foyer, Austin Convention Center

• Promiscuity or Private Groups: Mobile Photo Sharing

  by Louis Gray and Mayank Mehta

  We all know photo sharing is nothing new - it's been around as long as photos have been around and that's a long long time! So what's all the buzz around mobile photo sharing now? Are people all jumping on the bandwagon to share their mobile photos? Instagram just passed 1M users within 3 months of their launch. Path introduced somewhat controversial private group sharing with 50 friends limit. And LiveShare by Cooliris just launched the first flexible private group sharing service for photos. Which brings us to question, are users more likely to resort to private streams? Is that where we are headed - small, intimate groups? What does it mean for the overall social graph(s) we have been building for the past years?

  Come and join in on the discussion around mobile photo sharing, the hottest topic in Silicon Valley.

  • Instagram
  • Mobile
  • Photography
  • Privacy

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Friday 11th March

  In Salon K, Hilton Austin Downtown

• Cultural Protectionism: Image Use at Burning Man

  by Andie Grace and Rosalie Barnes

  Burning Man – aided by volunteers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Creative Commons -- spent 2010 updating their terms of use as they relate to photo/media policies, amidst a wave of public attention to the desert event's unorthodox image use rules. They've incorporated fair use, Creative Commons licensing, and human readable language, but still maintain the right to use copyright to take down images in violation of their terms of use. Is this annual desert event a microcosm of creative culture or a copyright clusterf—ck? Anything goes at Burning Man--except when you've got a camera in your hand.

  LEVEL: Intermediate

  • Culture
  • Free Culture
  • Photography

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Friday 11th March

  In Ballroom E, Austin Convention Center

• Focusing In On the Future of Social Photography

  by Yan-David Erlich

  Instagram closes $7 million in funding. Path supposedly rebuffs a $120 million acquisition offer from Google. Over a 100 million photos are uploaded to Facebook each day. There is a renaissance in social photography. The relatively new field, started by Flickr only a few years ago and dominated by Facebook today is seeing a flurry of new, predominantly mobile entrants, all showing promising early traction. Photos are becoming instantly shareable and are being marked-up with a vast array of data from face-tags to geo-location to paint a more complete story of the "captured moment" than ever before. We explore the convergence of photography with mobile and social technologies, discuss whether the new startups in this field are fad or future, and imagine what the long-term future of social photography might look like, including its cultural, commercial, and social implications.

  LEVEL: Intermediate

  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • Photography

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Friday 11th March

  In Big Bend, Hyatt Regency Austin