FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Get Ready for Pecha Kucha Night:
San Luis Obispo, volume 02
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Back for volume two, Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo is presenting another night of cultural karaoke.
Japanese for "the sound of conversation," Pecha Kucha Night is a digital presentation event where each participant is given 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide to share their works and ideas freely, giving a total of 6 minutes 40 seconds before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show. With no specific theme or topic, six presenters are provided a forum to render their creativity into a free-flowing non-stop time slot. No breaks. No interruptions. One right after another. It is similar to a Salon from times past, with organizers encouraging event participants and the audience to gather, discuss and socialize.
Volume two presenters are an eclectic mix of professionals, academics, eccentrics, students, and artists, who are brave enough to break the 'death by PowerPoint' mold.
Presenters for PKN vol_02 are:
:: garcia_architecture+design
:: matt ritter_plant_forms
:: isabel barbuzza_installation
:: myla collier_tapestry_weaver
:: peter steynberg_paintings
:: brian lawler_typographical eros
:: eric meyer_trendy eco products not yet cliché
:: leticia chagolla_salsa_merengue_watercolors by tom di santo
Pecha Kucha (pronounced Peh-Chak-Cha) Night was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham - Klein Dytham architecture in Tokyo, as a place for designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. The event has grown into a global phenomenon and happens in most major cities around the world. San Luis Obispo is the smallest city to hold a Pecha Kucha Night event. Tokyo is the largest, where 2,000 people might congregate to meet, discuss, view and engage the nights' creative presenters.
To be held four times a year, the local collective is dedicated to seeing the Pecha Kucha philosophy and conversation included as an element in San Luis Obispo's cultural landscape. They have garnered support from designers, artists, students, professionals and musicians who are all committed to joining the San Luis Obispo conversation. Presented by M:OME & M:OMElife; sponsored by Steynberg Gallery and the generosity of Eric Meyer.
Details:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 02 will be held:
:: Saturday February 2nd, 2008
:: at the Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
:: doors open 19:02 (07:02pm) presentations at 20:20 (8:20pm)
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"Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down."
---Daniel H. Pink, Wired Magazine
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Back for volume two, Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo is presenting another night of cultural karaoke.
Japanese for "the sound of conversation," Pecha Kucha Night is a digital presentation event where each participant is given 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide to share their works and ideas freely, giving a total of 6 minutes 40 seconds before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show. With no specific theme or topic, six presenters are provided a forum to render their creativity into a free-flowing non-stop time slot. No breaks. No interruptions. One right after another. It is similar to a Salon from times past, with organizers encouraging event participants and the audience to gather, discuss and socialize.
Volume two presenters are an eclectic mix of professionals, academics, eccentrics, students, and artists, who are brave enough to break the 'death by PowerPoint' mold.
Presenters for PKN vol_02 are:
:: garcia_architecture+design
:: matt ritter_plant_forms
:: isabel barbuzza_installation
:: myla collier_tapestry_weaver
:: peter steynberg_paintings
:: brian lawler_typographical eros
:: eric meyer_trendy eco products not yet cliché
:: leticia chagolla_salsa_merengue_watercolors by tom di santo
Pecha Kucha (pronounced Peh-Chak-Cha) Night was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham - Klein Dytham architecture in Tokyo, as a place for designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. The event has grown into a global phenomenon and happens in most major cities around the world. San Luis Obispo is the smallest city to hold a Pecha Kucha Night event. Tokyo is the largest, where 2,000 people might congregate to meet, discuss, view and engage the nights' creative presenters.
To be held four times a year, the local collective is dedicated to seeing the Pecha Kucha philosophy and conversation included as an element in San Luis Obispo's cultural landscape. They have garnered support from designers, artists, students, professionals and musicians who are all committed to joining the San Luis Obispo conversation. Presented by M:OME & M:OMElife; sponsored by Steynberg Gallery and the generosity of Eric Meyer.
Details:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 02 will be held:
:: Saturday February 2nd, 2008
:: at the Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
:: doors open 19:02 (07:02pm) presentations at 20:20 (8:20pm)
###
"Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down."
---Daniel H. Pink, Wired Magazine
