Comments on: David Byrne’s I Heart PowerPoint

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:29:39 +0000

I caught this lecture last month, and found it to be a colossal waste. It was nothing more than a night of post-pop icon worship. David Byrne’s ideas on New Media are sophomoric and the tour is little more than an advertisement for his $80 DVD.
There are plenty of artists exploring the New Media frontier in meaningful ways, and David Byrne isn’t one of them.

By: jessica

jessica — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:11:38 +0000

I just randomly came across your article, and it seems obvious that you took him seriously . . . it was rather tongue-in-cheek, as most of his art tends to be. His observations on human nature are keen and off-centered, and never as serious as you seem to be. Lighten up. Read up on some press about the presentation and you might gain another perspective. I saw the lecture twice and loved it both times.

By: Jack Sadler

Jack Sadler — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:46:30 +0000

at least he still puts out good music. Oh wait…nevermind

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:07:55 +0000

I’m not sure that I understand the point of this exhibit. I assume that it’s like creating the mona lisa using crayons. The medium isn’t supposed to matter, right? However, whenever I hear David Byrne advocating PowerPoint as an artistic tool, the anger boils up in me and I want to attack him with an axe. The sad reality is that as a designer in a corporate environment I am frequently forced to use yet another ill conceived, badly executed piece of software from Microsoft which has little inherent value for communication. Regardless of whether or not Byrne believes that ideas are innate or not (I haven’t read his book), PowerPoint is not a program that in any way assists the communication of ideas. Sounds like a boatload of pretentious crap to me.