Pecha Kucha: Humanity and the Environment

Here's video of my short presentation last week as part of Pecha Kucha: Humanity & the Environment, hosted by Rudy Ruderman at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Nine people presented 20 slides apiece, with 20 seconds per slide to speak. I tried to demo my trajectory from painting within rectangles to murals, specifically my installation at DePaul University Art Museum in 2010 in response to Dayton Castleman's cardboard sculpture, which I've blogged about previously.

Rob Funderburk, Pecha Kucha: 2D Painting as a Response to Physical Environments from Felix Jung on Vimeo.
I was a little wobbly getting started, and a few slides were accidentally dropped (posted below, fyi), but the experience was great and the other presenters did a great job and were really interesting. Big thanks to Felix Jung for capturing and sharing video -- here's his blog post about attending -- and especially Rudy & co. at SAIC for a great experience.

Here's what the room looked like for starters

Made a map of shadows cast by Castleman's sculpture to compose with

Here's a few of the models I made to explore composition.
The one on the bottom right is the final plan

Other presenters included:

• Kelly Pope: "The ins and outs of environmentally-friendly street art" 
• Katherine Darnstadt: "DirTEA"
• Laurie Palmer: "What do Rocks Need?"
• Kensuke Kevin Suzuki: "The Art of See-Saw" 
• Marissa Benedict: "A Brief Presentation on Algae and its Pivotal Role in Human History"
• Tola Briennan: "Economic Hitman in a Nutshell"
• Jais Gossman: "The Language We Use to Describe Climate Issues" 
• Deborah Boardman: "The Whole World is the Flux of Matter and We Align Ourselves Through Open-Heartedness"