Call For Entries: Power Point Extreme!
Deadline for Participation: Artists should confirm particiption and A/V needs (but need not submit work) by Monday, March 7
CALL FOR ENTRIES
OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign-Urbana�s collective for innovative and community-oriented art, seeks contributions to its forthcoming show:
POWER POINT EXTREME!
OPENSOURCE wants artworks, writings, and performances that bring PowerPoint out of the office, addressing the weirdness, tedium, and sheer ubiquity of this medium. What the hell do we need to know that it needs to be put in a PowerPoint slideshow? - OR - What isn't PowerPoint good for?
In �The Cognitive Style of Power Point,� Edward Tufte laments:
"Alas, slideware often reduces the analytical quality of presentations. In
particular, the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually
weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical
analysis. What is the problem with PowerPoint?"
� PowerPoint Extreme! celebrates amateurship, for everyone is passionate about some topic, imagined or real.
� It asks how and why PowerPoint has become the default corporate and academic medium for the presentation of ideas and instruction.
� It encourages tenuous (and often humorous) connections between a variety of media and subject matters.
� It exploits the technical tools of the application (embedded imagery, animation, sound files, etc.) to create slideshows that are visually interesting and playfully cluttered.
Format: Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow; artwork and performances otherwise inspired by PowerPoint.
Length: 10-15 minutes
Required meeting for all artists: 12:00pm, March 11 at OPENSOURCE Art, 12 E. Washington St., Champaign (near corner with Neil, north of the Orpheum)
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