Pecha Kucha Artist Research Presentations & For Further Study Posts
You will spend significant time thinking about, looking at, and engaging with the artwork, ideas, content, and discourse around your assigned artist. You will present your research to the class in a Pecha Kucha presentation and a for further study post, posted on your tumblr on the day of your scheduled presentation later in the semester. (The presentation schedule will be announced closer to the presentation date.)
This presentation is designed to function as an introduction of your artist to our surface design class community. Use the presentation structure to introduce and discuss important aspects of the artists production to the class and to provide context for how this artist’s work fits into contemporary art conversations. You can decide to structure this presentation in whatever way you decide best introduces your artist. Some may want to focus in one project or body of work by the artist in more depth, others might want to show an artists career in terms of their personal history and biography. You could also approach the artists work thematically, or holistically to give a few examples. There are a multiplicity of ways to think about how to organize the presentation.
Pecha Kucha Presentations are currently scheduled for Tuesday, March 26th. (Please note this date has changed from what was printed on the assignment checklist.)
The Pecha Kucha presentation will consist of 20 images presented for 20 seconds each for a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds. (You can also learn more about the official Pecha Kucha format on the website linked here.)
Try to include one image of the artist. Also try to find at least one image that depicts the studio space or an artwork in progress. Other than these images, use whatever images you can find to best tell the story of the artist you are researching.
Use google slides to create your presentations. Please use this YouTube video tutorial to learn you how to make a presentation using google slides that uses the Pecha Kucha structure.
Once your presentation is ready to go, please email your google slides presentation link to your professor. Be sure you link has been emailed no later than 24 hours before your scheduled presentation date.
To accompany your presentation, please prepare a post for your blog that collects and links to more information and resources about your artists for those who are interested to learn more. This information should be posted to your blog no later than the start of class on the day of your assigned presentation.
The #forfurtherstudy post should include:
A.) 1-3 images of artwork by your artist with appropriate artwork information about indicated projects such as title, exhibition context, date, materials, and dimensions. (These can be images that are also included in your presentation.)
B.) 3 links to high quality sources from contemporary art discourse about your artist. These sources could be reviews or interviews with the artists, artist/gallery/project websites, links to print sources like exhibition catalogues, etc.
C.) Please write 1-3 sentences to describe each source, breifly in your post.
Please use the hashtag: #forfurtherstudy to make your post easy to identify.
Grading:
The presentation is worth 10 points or 10% of your grade for this course. The For Further Study Post is worth 3 points or 3% of your grade for this course.
These grades are assessed by the professor based on the quality and completeness of the presentation and post to include its research depth, clarity and articulation of ideas, organization and structure of information, and image quality.
Images above, from top:
an infographic summarizing the Pecha Kucha presentation structure
screenshot from a very helpful video on how to make a good presentation. Watch it! Seriously.
