David Byrne

Posted by:: König Prüße, GfbAEV
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:32:20 GMT

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David Byrne explores the artistic possibilities
of PowerPoint in Berkeley lecture
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/11/DDGIQBMB4G26.DTL

Posted by:: purple
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:27:18 -0500

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On 3/11/05 10:32 AM, in article
8SiYd.368029$w62.159844@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net, "König Prüße,
GfbAEV" wrote:

> David Byrne explores the artistic possibilities
> of PowerPoint in Berkeley lecture
> http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/11/DDGIQBMB4G26.DTL
>

This is an accurate representation of his performance in Manhattan on March
2 at the Canadian Embassy's McLuhan Lecture (repeated in Berkeley):

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/11/DDGIQBMB4G26.DTL

But once I joined in at the top of the question period, I forced him to
concentrate on the case he was making for "phatic" communication via McLuhan
versus Tufte's paean to "emphatic" communication which POWERPOINT (as
presently used) was frustrating.

He tightened up and agreed with me.

Then we did a tetrad on POWERPOINT.

All were pleased.

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