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This is an old post that resurfaced via diigo this week from a friend of mine. Knowing about Pecha Kucha may help as we prepare for our interconnected gestures! :) 20 slides for only 20 seconds each. Incidentally, this post is by Dan Pink who spoke at NAEA 2 years ago. He wrote the book, A Whole New Mind.

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. The result, in the hands of masters of the form, combines business meeting and poetry slam to transform corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art.

Empathy is necessary to interconnected gestures, and a poetic imagination. A sequencing of evenly timed (20 slides for 20 seconds each) may interconnect gestures of meaning in performance art as in the 4" Binding Unbound poem of different artist statements of their work (see http://explorations.sva.psu.edu/unbound/media/eei_poem.mov), but there are other strategies with less linearity. The last 3 weeks of interconnected gestures will be my facilitation in which I will facilitate making connections between the different facilitations. I have conceptualized a way to combine the dialogues (especially from the wrap up material, which each did, and I am posting on the course syllabus per week). I have chosen one reading to explicate the pedagogy and then we'll discuss the pedagogy from our experience as facilitator, participant, and student--and the other roles not named yet.

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