2nd week

We are in our 2nd week. Class is very enjoyable. I attended the Hallwalls on Delaware Ave. It was Interesting. I had to ask exactly what the Hallwalls were. I soon found out that Since the 1970s, Hallwalls has been in the forefront of the alternative space and artist-run movement, informing and challenging audiences with new ideas and launching artists into the national and international art world. Incubated right here in Buffalo, some of these artists changed the face of contemporary art history in the late 20th century. Through the 1980s, Hallwalls was on the on the frontiers of new media, free jazz, performance art, experimental fiction and hip-hop culture. The Hallwells have been around for 37 years.  The mission of te Hallwalls is fulfilling the core mission of supporting the production and presentation of new and challenging work across diverse media and disciplines, including the visual arts, film, video, music, literature, and performance. The whole idea is by making Buffalo's cultural history accessible to the world with our on-line archives and, as a founding partner of the Migrating Media initiative, through our work at the cutting edge of video preservation, according to the websites I looked up and researched on.  The acctual event was called Pecha Kucha. I also reasearched that. PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. It was our turn in Buffalo. Pecha Kucha is a term , Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. Pecha Kucha is a worldwide event, which seemed to be very interesting.