heute: ... David Byrne?
Er <a href=webcast.berkeley.edu target=_blank>hat gestern einen Vortrag gehalten an der Berkeley Universität in Kalifornien. Er zeigte dabei seine - ja man muss wohl sagen - Performance mit dem Titel "I {heart} PowerPoint". Here’s how The New York Times in 2003 reviewed Byrne’s artwork: “Mr. Byrne subjects PowerPoint’s characteristic graphic templates to a radical metamorphosis. Arrows that curve out of their trajectory and into psychedelic rainbow-colored curlicues, surreal charts that satirize postmodern posturing, typographical compositions that present absurd abstractions with straight-faced conviction and deadpan photographs of the most humdrum of everyday objects all morph into one another with the steady pacing of corporate sales conference . . . Eventually, the obsessive nature of the process yields unexpectedly beautiful results.”