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Pecha Kucha Nights
Friday, October 17, 2008; Saturday, October 18, 2008
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
746 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Admission is free.
Twenty slides, 20 seconds each: That’s a pecha kucha. Created in Japan and popular around the world, pecha kuchas merge performance, design and personal passion.
Schedule of Events
Friday, October 17, 7-8:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 18, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
Pecha kuchas require vision, clarity, design savvy and personal passion. Pecha Kucha Nights will kick off Friday with presentations by seven artists and designers who will respond to a provocative question about art and politics.
Presenters will include multimedia artist and educator Juan Devis, TELIC Arts Exchange founders Sean Dockray and Fiona Whitton, conceptual artist Hasan Elahi, artist and filmmaker Karin Fong, multimedia artist Rebeca Méndez, and designer, writer and director Mike Mills.
On Saturday, students will participate in an action-packed day of hands-on design as they create their own pecha kuchas and then present them to a raucous audience. Think of it as Iron Chef meets PowerPoint!
Check back for details regarding the Saturday schedule and workshop registration.
About the Participants
Juan Devis writes, directs and produces collaborative multimedia projects focusing on social and political accountability. His public media interventions are produced, from inception to realization, with local communities. Devis was nominated for a 2003 Rockefeller fellowship for his experimental film The Dirt on the Road and was awarded Best Colombian Documentary (Ministry of Culture) for his documentary Ice.
Sean Dockray and Fiona Whitton are the founders of TELIC Arts Exchange, an experimental media gallery in Los Angeles. Both are media artists in their own right, with a range of projects that question notions of space, design and architecture and the ways in which we move and act within certain spaces.
Hasan Elahi is a conceptual artist based at Rutgers. His Web-based project Tracking Transience is a chronicle of the artist’s life, revealing his location in real time, all the time. Built in response to the FBI’s ill-founded interest in Elahi as a terrorist, the project responds to the bureau’s interest with an avalanche of quotidian detail.
Karin Fong directs and designs for film, television and environments. Before joining Imaginary Forces in 1994, Fong studied art at Yale and worked at WGBH Boston. Her reel includes the opening sequences for Charlotte’s Web, Zoom, Ray, The Cat in the Hat and Charlie’s Angels. Other work includes art installations and experience design pieces for DJs Sasha and John Digweed, Wynn Las Vegas, Fremont Street in Vegas and the L.A. Opera.
Rebeca Méndez is a Los Angeles–based artist who works with various media to explore the forces of nature modulated through technology. Méndez uses video, sound and photography to explore issues of representation, often in the form of immersive environments and what she dubs “impossible landscapes.”
Mike Mills is a designer, writer and director, as well as the co-founder (with Roman Coppola) of The Directors Bureau, a production company representing music video directors. Mills has directed many music videos, commercials and shorts, as well as two feature films. His graphics work has appeared in numerous magazines and on CD covers (for bands such as Sonic Youth) and T-shirts.
Organized by Holly Willis (Cinematic Arts and Institute for Multimedia Literacy) and co-sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.