David Byrne Subverts PowerPoint

NoData writes "The AP is reporting that David Byrne, visionary musician and frontman for 80s New Wave art band 'Talking Heads,' has turned Powerpoint into a visual art medium in a (satiric) DVD/Book combo. Says Byrne in the article: 'The genius of it is that it was designed for any idiot to use.'" Shades of Edward Tufte ("PowerPoint Makes You Dumb"), as the article points out. The book is published by high-end German publisher Steidl.

Comments

powerpoint?

[wolvenwraith]

it will dull the mind!

Three points

[Otter]

1) Gratuitous use of the word "subvert" is pretentious, self-aggrandizing and stupid. 2) PowerPoint is a tremendously powerful and useful application if used thoghtfully. Certainly, scientific presentations have improved greatly since it replaced hand-made and hand-shot slides and overheads drawn with a Sharpie. Maybe in other environments it's used badly -- granted about 70% of the features should probably never be used under any circumstances. 3) Has Vint Cerf accomplished anything useful in the last 20 years besides talking about how smart he used to be, promoting that stupid interplanetary network and announcing that Al Gore created the Internet because he, Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet, said so? I'm not even going to get into the question of what he did and didn't do way back when.