It's in our DNA

Back for volume nine and crafting together digital mementos for your viewing pleasure, Pecha Kucha Night SLO promises to offer an oddball mix of digital projections. Get your kicks with six minutes 40 seconds of irony, surprise, design, and music.

Details:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 09 will be held:
:: Friday Nov. 13, 2009, Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
:: conversations start @ 7:00pm
:: presentations start @ (20:20) 8:20pm
:: $2 donation at the door

Volume 9 Presenters:

Timo Beckwith- the confluence of creative diversity and production design

Timo has a passion for many forms of artistic expression and the cross pollinating influence they have on each other. He studied sculpture at California College of the Arts, receiving a BFA with distinction in 1972. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, lighting, mask making, photography, production design, body painting and original world fusion music performance and recording. Timo has exhibited and performed throughout the state.

Doug Jackson – Incompleteness

Doug Jackson is an architect and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly. His current academic and professional work focuses on the production and theorization of architecture that transforms through user-interaction. Doug’s work has been widely published and exhibited, both nationally and internationally. Previously he was a principal along with Wes Jones in the internationally-acclaimed office of Jones, Partners: Architecture (J,P:A). In addition to his architectural and academic work on transformation, Doug continues to pursue a number of related photographic studies that focus on the issues of artificiality and incompleteness.

Amanda Wallace – SLO Oddities

Amanda Wallace, currently resides in SLO as a local graphic designer, self proclaimed book nerd, letterpress novice, and recent graduate from California Polytechnic State University. With a goal to eradicate Papyrus, a very long “design” bucket-list, and a lack of knowledge of knowing when to give up, she lives by the motto: refine, refine, refine... until you run out of time. Don’t worry, she always stops to enjoy the mundane and search for undiscovered oddities. Likes: Perfectly kerned type, the smell of a well aged book, Bogie (her dachshund MLD), tandem rides. Dislikes: Christmas in July, hornworm tomato eaters, style-biters.

Larry Rinzel - Joyous Intentions

Larry Rinzel is the author of Searching for Mind-Over-Matter: Extraordinary Experiences of an Ordinary Joe. He teaches Engineering at Cal Poly State University in Calfornia and is a Certified Hypnotherapist. In his spare time, Larry plays banjo backstage, rescues kitties from heating vents, spends his vacations rewiring his sister’s mansion, and still finds time to run a successful hypnotherapy practice.

Chloe Adeline White – Figurative Sculpture

Chloe White obtained a BA (hons) in Fine Art from the University of the West of England in England in 1995. She has since exhibited her paintings, prints and sculpture at galleries in Britain and the USA, including The Royal West of England Academy of Art, The Cube Gallery, The Christmas Gallery, Jamaica Street Studios and San Luis Obispo Art Center.

Her sculptures seek to express universal human experiences and emotions. Notions of identity, personal journeys and role-playing are explored in her provocative animal/human creatures. Her theory is that animals express feelings purely, and that at our best and our worst, we have much in common with them.

Robert Arens – Strangely Familiar: Small Buildings and Unbuildings

Robert Arens has a background that blends architecture with landscape architecture, technology with design, and professional activity with teaching.

Trained as an architect and a landscape architect, Robert has held a variety of roles on projects ranging from stage sets to massive urban developments. Robert’s design work has been recognized by the University of Michigan and the Detroit Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

He joined the Cal Poly faculty in 2005, following professorships at the University of Detroit, Kansas State University and University of Colorado. His most recent project is a grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop emergency shelters using green materials.

Mark Freear – Practical uses for the Tricycle from around the world

Mark Freear painter/designer, makes his home in San Luis Obispo and travels the world for inspiration.

Richard Green – Musician

Richard Green is a longtime Central Coast favorite, featured at such major events as the Live Oak Folk Festival, sharing stages with the likes of Steve Forbert, Bo Diddley and many other national acts. Born into a musical family, Richard learned many different instruments. On his 2009 release, “Better Days,” he keeps the songwriting in the family, sharing lyric credits with brother Matthew.

Local stars with whom Richard Green has played include cellist Bob Liepman (of Bob & Wendy), pianist Brett Mitchell, and drummer Dean Giles. Vocal support comes from Richard’s wife Lori Olson-Green, longtime pal Paul Hobbs, and Cindy Giovacchini

Take a peak...

Some Like it Binary: PKN SLO volume 8

Join us for another round of cultural karaoke this saturday

Pecha Kucha Night vol_08 will be held:

>> Saturday July 25th

@ Steynberg Gallery, San Luis Obispo, 1531 Monterey St.

>> Doors Open 20:20 (8:20pm)

>> Presentations start at DARK.

>> $2 donation

Presenters for PKN vol_08 are:

:: Garry Eister .. .. Resonator Guitars

:: Kenneth Haggard .. .. SLO Sustainability Group

:: Brian Lawler .. .. Panoramic Photography

:: Joey N. Shimoda .. .. Architect

:: Olga Apolinarska .. .. KCPR DJ

:: Ashley Schwellenbach + Steve Miller .. .. Photographically interpreting idioms

:: Ira Amerson + Shane Stoneman .. .. Surf Photography + Live Music

Contact Pecha Kucha Night SLO:

Email: pechakucha.slo@gmail.com

Web: http://pechakucha-sanluisobispo.blogspot.com/

PKN SLO: Volume 8 is ready for public consumption

PKN SLO collective has been hard at work, preparing another fun, informative, visual and audible phenomenon they refer to as “cultural karaoke”.

Pecha Kucha Night vol_08 will be held:
>> Saturday July 25th
@ Steynberg Gallery, San Luis Obispo, 1531 Monterey St.
>> Doors Open 20:20 (8:20pm)
>> Presentations start at DARK.

>> $2 donation

Presenters for PKN vol_08 are:

• Ashley Schwellenbach & Steve Miller

Ashley is Arts and Entertainment Editor at New Times. Steve works as both New Times staff photographer and freelance photographer. They have been collaborating on large-scale projects for the paper’s Spring and Autumn Arts issues for the past year and a half, exploring topics ranging from the muses and artistic creativity, the relationship between artists and death, and the disconnect between contemporary society and words. Their current project is a collaboration with local artists to produce public art installations and performances over the course of the summer.

www.newtimesslo.com

• Garry Eister

Garry is a composer who writes for unusual instruments, including some very rare resonator guitars whose manufacture he has commissioned."  Eister has a Ph.D. in music composition from UCSB.  Garry’s music has been performed by the Emerson String Quartet, Kent Nagano, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the SF Guitar Quartet, the SLO Mozart Festival Orchestra, and many others. Eister's compositions have been heard in numerous venues around the world, including in Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Kennedy Center. His work has been broadcast on NPR, PRI, many European national radios, German TV and CBS. Eister has concertized with Daniel Lentz, Steve Reich and John Schneider's Harry Partch Band. He has recorded with Linda Ronstadt. His works are available on SONY Classical, Archer Records, and Eister Music.

http://www.eistermusic.com/

• Kenneth Haggard

Kenneth is a registered architect in the states of California and Florida with 32 years of experience in urban design and architecture. For the past 26 years, he has been a principal in San Luis Sustainability Group (SLSG). Known as a pioneer in passive solar design, Haggard has designed numerous residential and commercial projects with an emphasis on making the best use of the energy and materials available on-site. In 1972, he served as architect and senior researcher for the first passive solar house in California. In 1978, he co-wrote "Passive Solar Handbook for California," a guide for architects interested in the passive solar design. With colleague Polly Cooper, Haggard helped renew serious interest in straw bale construction in California by designing the first-permitted straw bale house in the state.

http://www.slosustainability.com/

• Brian Lawler

Brian teaches courses at Cal Poly in color theory and quality control, new technologies, digital printing, and typography. He is a graphic arts and photographic industry expert with over 30 years’ experience in photography, typography, and printing. His love of photography has taken him all over the world. Whenever and wherever he travels, he makes panoramic photographs. Lawler builds his own camera mounts out of wood for his panoramic work, each one a specialized product for a combination of camera and lens. His photographic work is widely published online and in print.

http://www.thelawlers.com/

• Joey N. Shimoda

Joey earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo in 1988. In 1985 he interned at Morphosis Architects in Santa Monica, and was instrumental in the design and execution of drawings for Kate Mantilini Restaurant and the Sixth Street House. Both projects received Progressive Architecture Awards for that year. On Valentines Day 2000, he founded Shimoda Design Group. A studio founded on a multi-disciplined platform that seeks to bring quality design, innovation and technical excellence in projects of every scale. In addition to the core staff of six, the studio has the ability to assemble an optimum team of design professionals according to each clients needs. They include planners, landscape architects, graphic designers, lighting consultants and marketing professionals. Currently the firm has ongoing projects in Dallas, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

http://www.shimodadesign.com/

• Olga Apolinarska

Olga earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo in 2009. She is from Poznan, Poland and continues to work as a DJ at KCPR (since 2005). KCPR, Cal Poly's non-profit volunteer-run radio station, provides its listeners with alternative programming which entertains and informs. Programs on KCPR attempt to open local minds to alternative points of view and provide diversity on the airwaves. KCPR’s initial Broadcast was in the Fall of 1968. According to Brad Brown, the first words on the air were: "Is THIS the damn switch!?"

http://kcpr.calpoly.edu/

• Ira Amerson & Shane Stoneman

Ira lives and works on the central coast of California. His photos have been featured in most major surf magazines and many surf related websites.

http://www.irafoto.smugmug.com/

Shane is a surfer, shaper, musician and painter. He has created a line of surfboards that is both artistic and practical. He knows from experience how subtle designs work under the feet and he also knows the qualities of A-grade product. He creates boards that are unique, hand-crafted, and well-tested. Drawing and painting is something he has loved ever since he was a child. He still gets to it every chance he can.

http://www.shanestoneman.com/

Contact Pecha Kucha Night SLO:
Email: pechakucha.slo@gmail.com

For more information on Pecha Kucha Global: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

Evangelizing Outside the Box: Pecha Kucha Night SLO

Back for volume seven and decidedly quirky, Pecha Kucha Night San Luis Obispo promises to dazzle at breakneck speed. Get your kicks with six minutes 40 seconds of irony, surprise, design, and music.

Fast-paced and wired for the masses, volume seven presenters are a mix of professionals, academics, eccentrics, students, and artists, who are brave enough to break the 'death by PowerPoint' mold.

Presenters for PKN vol_07 are:

1. Susan and Jack Biesek_crop circles
2. Tom Jones_ affordable housing consultant +Cal Poly’s CAED
3. Darran Marsan_lighting artisan
4. Tera Galanti_artist
5. Mark Wilson_Bulletproof_vespas
6. Abbey Onikoyi_artist + drummer
7. Bob & Wendy Liepman_ musicians

DETAILS:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 07 will be held:
:: saturday March 14th, 2009, Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in SLO
:: conversations start @ (19:00) 7:00pm
:: presentations start @ (20:20) 8:20pm
:: $1.00 donation at the door

CONTACT:
Email:
pechakucha.slo@gmail.com

Get your kicks...

Save the Date:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 07 will be held:
:: Saturday March 14th, 2009, Steynberg Gallery,
1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo

:: conversations start @ (19:00) 7:00pm
:: presentations start @ (20:20) 8:20pm
:: $1.00 donation at the door

Chit for Chat: Pecha Kucha Night SLO volume 06

Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 06


SAN LUIS OBISPO – Back for volume six and celebrating their first year of slide show awesomeness, Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo is presenting another night of cultural karaoke.

Visual and super sonic, volume six is a digital percussion of music, photography, design, fine art, wheeled objects, and a little bit of nature tossed into the mix.

Fast-paced and wired for the masses, volume six presenters are a mix of professionals, academics, eccentrics, students, and artists, who are brave enough to break the 'death by PowerPoint' mold.

Presenters for PKN vol_06 are:
• Darren Clarke_musician
• Jeff Jamieson_furniture + art
• Tracy Taylor_fine artist
• Bill Mulder_bikes
• Donna Duerk_gardener + professor
• Barry Goyette_photographer w/ Inga Swearingen_vocalist
• Inga Swearingen_vocalist w/ Barry Goyette_photographer

More about the presenters can be found here.

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, 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.

Held several times a year and originally devised and shared by Tokyo based Klein Dytham Architecture, 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. Sponsored by Steynberg Gallery and the generosity of Eric Meyer.

Details:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 06 will be held:
:: Saturday November 8th, 2008, Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
:: conversations start @ (19:00) 7:00pm
:: presentations start @ (20:20) 8:20pm
:: $1.00 donation at the door

CONTACT:
Email:
pechakucha.slo@gmail.com

about pkn volume 6 presenters

Presenters for PKN vol_06 are:

Darren Clarke
Darren Clarke was born and raised in England and was performing in pubs and clubs in London as young as age 13. Renowned as an outstanding guitarist, record producer, published songwriter and mentor, Darren Clarke made San Luis Obispo his home 15 years ago & founded Music Lab in 2003, now known as Modern Music Academy. MMA specializes in Guitar, Song Craft & Production. Darren has a degree in Contemporary Music & Music Business & he thrives on training others to be successful musicians.

www.modern-music-academy.com

Donna Duerk
I grew up in North Carolina and have had a garden since elementary school and a camera since my first Brownie Hawkeye at twelve. Architecture at Cal Poly brought me to California in 1981. I got serious about photography in an underwater class with Mike Francis who said, "Make sure that the fish's eye is in focus!" The underwater film gear got stolen, the world turned digital, I turned into a Master Gardener, and the world of cacti and succulents opened a fascinating new venue of exploration in addition to the usual flowers. So, here I am.

Barry Goyette
Barry Goyette is a photographer/designer based in San Luis Obispo. He completed his studies at Cal Poly in 1989, and specializes in photographing people for advertising. Goyette also provides interior and graphic design services for a number local commercial clients. His photography and design work is also regularly seen in association with a variety of non-profit organizations including the Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo, Ballet Theatre of SLO, DeyoDances, Transitions Mental Health, and The San Luis Obispo Symphony.

Goyette is a regular contributor to the local arts scene, producing numerous exhibits of contemporary photography over the past 18 years.

http://www.barrygoyette.com

Jeff Jamieson
Jeff Jamieson was born in 1960 and has been making art for 32 years.
He has concentrated on small-scale works for the last 5 of those 32.
He is still finding and seeing good new things.
He will show some of the new small-scale works at David Patton in Los Angeles in April.

Bill Mulder
We are a loose confederation of bicycle riders that do it from a different perspective. Tall bikes are nothing short of a parade when riding down a street. One has to try really hard not to have a positive reaction to a tall bike passing by. We strive to inspire individual creativity, community giving, and having a good time while doing it "Posse Up" and ride high with us!

Inga Swearingen
While she readies her album for a 2009 release, Inga Swearingen continues to grow and evolve as an artist; playing everything from jazz vespers in San Francisco to Tanglewood with James Taylor and a Prairie Home Companion. She incorporates her experiences to enhance her skill as a singer who conjures with her audience. She concludes, "I want an audience to feel uplifted and connected. I want them to know that they can make music more a part of their lives. It's a wonderful profession, I love what I do."

http://www.ingaswearingen.com/

Tracy Taylor
Tracy’s studio occupies the second story of a century old rural general store surrounded by vineyards, in Edna Valley. Although she specializes in watercolors, she also loves to paint in oils. Self taught, Tracy sold her first painting at fourteen.

While living in Hawaii early in her career, she became fascinated with painting the local tropical fish and since then has sold hundreds of thousands of aquatic watercolor posters worldwide.

Tracy's portfolio can be viewed at tracytaylor.com

Baking up some conversation

Save the date!
Pecha Kucha Night San Luis Obispo Vol. 06
:: Saturday Nov 8th, 2008, Steynberg Gallery, SLO
:: conversations start @ 7:00pm
:: presentations starts @ 8:20pm

Presentation Zen: Pecha Kucha Night SLO, volume 05

Pecha Kucha Night (PKN) is a presentation format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and informally shown. Pecha Kucha Night vol_05 will be held Friday June 13th at the Steynberg Gallery in San Luis Obispo.

More about Presenters for PKN vol_05 can be found here:


DETAILS:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 05 will be held:
:: Friday June 13th, 2008, Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
:: conversations start @ (19:00) 7:00pm
:: presentations start @ (20:20) 8:20pm
:: $1.00 donation at the door

CONTACT:
Email: pechakucha.slo@gmail.com
Web: http://pechakucha-sanluisobispo.blogspot.com/

For more information on Pecha Kucha Global:
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/. For those interested in presenting for future PKNs contact: pechakucha.slo@gmail.com .

about PKN volume 5 presenters

Presenters for PKN vol_05 are:

:: Bill Ostrander ::
headwinds in conservation development
"When I grow up I'm going to leave the midwest and go to Hollywood and make movies. When I'm done with that then I'm going to go to Africa and do something for wildlife. Like help try to save rhino's and cheetahs. When I'm there I'll meet this really cool girl and we'll get married and have kids and move to California where we'll live on a farm and raise hay and cows and horses and chickens. Besides farming I'll build stuff. Then I'm going to find land and develop some cool places to live. And sometimes I'm going to travel and I'll play with my kids a lot."
--Bill Ostrander.

:: Sumaya Agha ::
photography
Sumaya has been studying the Arabic language for the past year. Recently returning from Damascus, Syria, she spent a four-month stint learning to speak Arabic more proficiently, absorbing the culture, and acclimating with humor to the ways of the city.
She has worked for DoubleTake magazine, filmmaker Errol Morris, and Plazm magazine. Her photography has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times. She graduated from the Art and Design department at Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo.

:: Mark Bryan ::
artist
Local painter Mark Bryan has become known as a deadly satirist taking on the villains of the day in surprising and delightful fashion. He is also known for his whimsical surrealistic work and pieces that evoke wonder and ask the big questions. Bryan’s work has been widely exhibited and featured on numerous satirical and political web sites across the US and internationally. The work has also appeared in many publications and magazines as illustration and cover art.

In 2007 Bryan was given a feature article in Juxtapoz magazine. This fall, Bryan’s well known “Mad Tea Party” painting will be appearing in a new movie. “Lake View Terrace”, starring Samuel Jackson.
www.artofmarkbryan.com

:: Enrica Lovaglio collaborating with Russell Read ::
media arts + poetry
Enrica Lovaglio currently teaches digital arts at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is known to inspire and stimulate her students, pushing them to be outstanding and individual. Born on the French border in the Italian city of Bordighera, her childhood took her to Egypt, Borneo, Singapore, France and then Spain as her family followed her father's career in deep-sea exploration. This exposure to diverse cultures increased her visual sense and led to a passion to discover new forms of expression through design.

In Italy, Enrica studied architecture where beauty, function and meaning all intersect in a magnificent sculpture that becomes part of a living city. In France, she studied town planning which deepened her understanding of the context of architecture and expanded her ability to design on the larger scale of urban environment. In the United States, she has studied multimedia arts in order to extend her design knowledge into the virtual world.

:: Mignon Khargie collaborating with Kellie Wenzel ::
artist w/ vocalist

:: Mignon Khargie
Mignon Khargie is Hannah Fowler's mom. They are both residents of www.zand2ohs.com where they share a passion for drawing animals.

:: Kellie Wenzel
Kellie Wenzel has been performing since she was 12 years old and has been in a number of musicals and has sung regularly before large audiences in the Bay Area and on the central coast. She has toured Africa twice with a band called Quest and currently teaches piano and vocal at Grand Central Music & Conservatory. She has composed her own songs and sings regularly at Atascadero Bible Church. Kellie has had a longstanding love for Jazz music and drummer Jesse Hesch invited Kellie to sing with a local band called NewjaZ. With Kellie singing, NewjaZ can cover songs by artists like Norah Jones, Jane Monheit, Diana Krall, and many others.


:: SLOmobility: Tony Henderson, Derek Benedict, Chris Pratt ::
city of the future
SLOMobility is a multidisciplinary team of student engineers and planners from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo hailing from every region of California. Focusing on sustainable mobility, the original SLOMobility team won the student segment of the Los Angeles City of the Future challenge for 2007. In 2008, SLOMobility looked to the future of San Francisco by incorporating sustainable mobility, land use and design; approaching the design challenge with a wide variety of leadership, professional, and competition experience and a passion for the built environment.


:: Lisa Deyo performing with Helene Dinsmoor & Drew Silvaggio ::
dance
Lisa Deyo, choreographer and 2006 winner of an ART INSPIRES! Individual Artist’s Grant, is the product of a diverse background as a dancer. Originally from San Luis Obispo, she went on to New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago), returning to San Luis Obispo to form her company, Deyo Dances. For 10 months last year, Lisa was dancing and teaching ballet, jazz and modern at the Ramon Solé Studio in Barcelona, Spain.
Deyo Dances exists in varying forms, whether on the stages of Russia or in the aisles of Vons grocery store, using Lisa's diverse dance resources to tell a story and reflect the human condition.

Mark your calendar for Vol. 05

Pecha Kucha Night San Luis Obispo Vol. 5 is coming soon.
Save the date:
:: Friday June 13th, 2008, Steynberg Gallery, SLO
:: conversations start @ 7:00pm (19:00)
:: presentations start @ 8:20pm (20:20)

Take note: volume 5 is sound and movement driven. Join the conversation!

Cal Poly Architecture students + Pecha Kucha Night

Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo Volume 4
will feature Cal Poly Architecture students.

An architectural marathon of student talent!!!

WHEN: Friday May 16, 2008
:: Presentations start @ 19:00 (7:00pm)
:: Ends @ 22:00 (10:00pm)

WHERE: Steynberg Gallery
1531 Monterey Street in San Luis Obispo
$1 donation at the door

The Line Up:
01_peter turba: Defacing Groundscrape
02_brian siu yang: velO.city a high speed transit center spanning the sociological bay between the carbon-free world and gluttonous america
03_taline ayanyan: CREEPS: Timeless"Abstract"Machines
04_yimon aye: MEMORY RECALL BURMA:UNVEILING THE HIDDEN TRUTH 05_keith berry: biological structures
06_tyler bornstein: David Lynch + Icky Phenomenology

30 minute break

07_david pak: Spaghetti Sauce Architectural Variability
08_dustin pires eco2 ecology x economics
09_brandin roat Andy Warhol in the Afterlife
10_katsu shigemi SYMBIOTIC URBANISM The Future of LA
11_nathan smith Bifurcation of the Conscious Realm
12_danny thai Voluntary Transfiguration

30 minute break

13_remy junio Learning is.
14_frank lara DEMOCRATIC SPACE
15_noelle lee arCUREtecture: 20 Ways to Heal from 5 Years of Architecture School 16_michelle nelson DESERT_the inner boundaries : new urban place in Phoenix
17_leti chagolla Border-less Identity
18_simon diesendruck Corpulent Spectacle Sumo Wrestling in Beverly Hills

Pecha Kucha night :: vol 03 is ready for public consumption

(thank you New Times)

everything you have been waiting for and more

Please save the date for pecha kucha night slo vol. 3

DETAILS:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 03 will be held:
:: Friday April 25th
:: at the Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
:: doors open 19:00 (07:00pm)
:: presentations at 20:20 (8:20pm)

pkn vol. 3 presenters:
:: Para_architects
:: Christina Mc Phee_media arts
:: Terry Hargrave_multimedia
:: Gary Dwyer_photography
:: Peter Schwartz_physics
:: Joe Biel_artist
:: Lorna Teixeira_artist with musician Brynn Albanese

CONTACT:
Email:
pechakucha.slo@gmail.com

WEB:
http://pechakucha-sanluisobispo.blogspot.com/
For more information on Pecha Kucha Global: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

Pecha Kucha Night - is HERE!

Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 02 is TONIGHT!
:: 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)

Come join the conversation.

Get Ready for PKN vol. 02

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

SAVE THE DATE: pecha kucha night vol_02

pecha kucha night: san luis obispo vol. 02 will be held:

saturday february 2nd at the steynberg gallery,

1531 monterey st. in san luis obispo

doors: 19:02 (07:02)

presentations: 20:20 (8:20pm)

check back soon for list of presenters.

playlist for vol_o1 presenters: trujillo + arroyo

Join the PKN_vol_01 conversation tonight

Activities start early.
:: Doors open at 7:01pm (19:01)
Steynberg Gallery will have delectable desserts and refreshments for sale and pkn_slo will serve wine in the back gallery.

Admission will be first come, first served. Doors will close when the house is full.

Join the inaugural conversation.