June 19th Meet-up at Dinnerware

June 19, 2008
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

The June Tucson Digital Arts Community meet-up will take place at the Dinnerware gallery in downtown Tucson.

Come on by between 7pm and 9pm

DINNERWARE artspace
264 e. congress street
Tucson, arizona 85701

Dinnerware is starting a new event called IGNITE TUCSON (see description below) and they’d like to test it out with some tech savvy folks, i.e. TDAC members!  The IGNITE format (it was started in Portland) was inspired by presentations at high tech companies. The idea is to get information out in a quick and dynamic way. Anyone up for putting together an Ignite 5-minute presentation for the June 19th meetup??

What is “IGNITE TUCSON” ?

What if you had an innovative topic to talk about and you had 5 minutes to talk about it in front of an audience.

To make your talk more visual, what if you had selected 20 images beforehand, running 15 seconds on a timer projected on a big screen behind you?

What would you say?
Where would you take your audience?

Presentations must:

  • Be no longer than 5 minutes.
  • Be on an innovative topic.
  • Be on a CD or DVD ready to run on a Macintosh.

Here’s a link to a few good examples from Ignite Seattle, Ignite Portland, and Ignite Boston:
ignitenight.blip.tv
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igniteportland.com
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www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog


Posted on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008.

7 Responses to “June 19th Meet-up at Dinnerware”

  1. Julie Ray wrote:

    I’m in! Prasenjit (my husband) and I will do a presentation. It’s tentatively titled “We Love Tucson, But…”

  2. Lex Vilanova wrote:

    I’m in too! I don’t have a title yet. It will be about a web based business idea having to do with “art opening” events (the art, the people, and everything else) I’ll try to present it’s “unique selling proposition” and the business model behind it. Hopefully this is a form of “non-disclosure agreement” ;-)

  3. John E. Rodriguez III wrote:

    Sweet! My girlfriend and I will do our best to make it. Look forward to meeting everyone (and seeing Julie again)

  4. Natalie F. wrote:

    More info on this kind of format!
    (though the TDAC timing is different!)
    http://www.aqworks.com/2007/07/03/pecha-kucha-nights-and-beer-a-sober-guide-to-better-presentation-skills/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha

  5. shipherd wrote:

    I love the idea, I have a presentation, but I can’t make it to the TDAC event this evening. Will all the presentations be given tonight? I’ll follow up if the presentations come at a later date.

  6. Julie Ray wrote:

    I’m changing my presentation to my downtown project - re:VISION. To answer shipherd’s question, the presentations are a preview of IGNITE TUCSON, which will be held July 31 at the Screening Room.

  7. cHristine wrote:

    Sounds very exciting! I would love to try out a presentation. My project is called ROBOLOVE and it’s about android and anthropomorphized humanoid design. See you tonight!

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