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