PKN_AKL_23, 18 November
Pecha Kucha night is an event format for creative work in which presenters show a slideshow of 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 seconds — giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds. Each event usually has 8 - 14 presenters. Presenters (and much of the audience) are usually from the design, architecture, photography, art and creative fields.
The event was originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Kein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo, Japan in 2003 and has been replicated in more than 300 cities, including London, San Francisco, Seattle, Rotterdam, Shanghai and Berlin.
yMedia was invited to speak last Thursday, 18th November at Pecha Kucha Night in Auckland: PKN_AKL_23 as part of the MoAD & Unitec NZ Art week. It was a perfect way to re-integrate Pamela (co-founder of yMedia) diving head first back into yMedia life presenting alongside Jade.
Topics from the evening ranged from, film, photography, plastic surgery, sustainable product design and social entrepreneurship. As you can imagine, 6 minutes and 40 seconds is not a lot of time to share all the stories behind yMedia so we focused on sharing a few of the stories from not-for-profit organisations and the projects that came out of the yMedia Challenge 2010.
Please check out our Pecha Kucha slides from the evening here.
