So last night I went to see the Buenos Aires Pecha Kucha Night ( Vol. 8 ) at the Konex Theater near the Abasto. To be honest, the majority of the presenters were creative and charismatic in person, however – lacked presentation skills. I will not dissect every single one, but the shame of it was that a good 80% of the presenters used this 6:40 minutes to self promote and hawk their goods. Certainly I shouldn’t have to PAY to be sold to!!

Those who stood out and performed in the true art of Pecha Kucha were:

Mariano Favetto – graphic artist who took political and religious symbols, modified their significance in an artistic context and urged people to question cultural meaning of these symbols in an effort to promote world peace. (Bravo! He won in my book).

nobrand – Hernan Berdichevsky and Gustavo Stecher redesigned traditional icons representative of Argentina in a project that attempts to marry traditional and contemporary concepts of national identity. (Good presentation, shameless plug for their new store at the end).

Libre Amotinada Ideas – An experimental project whose directives are not well defined – but equally entertaining how they abandon bicycles on streets and film how long it takes for someone to steal it. (Great PowerPoint, but the three people who came up to speak need presentation skills).

Esteban Sehinkman – jazz pianist who performed to the images that appeared on his presentation. (It was a 4 minute presentation. The other two minutes were plugging his disc and when you can see him performing).

Here’s an example of a good Pecha Kucha presentation:

Guy Dickinson – Pecha Kucha

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