David Byrne no mere Talking Head

Vocalist Byrne is also artist Byrne, and he's adopted the corporate presentation software PowerPoint as his new canvas. [Next slide please.]

Byrne also has been giving talks around the country to promote his new book of PowerPoint artwork, "Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information."

Byrne says his work with PowerPoint started as a joke, the ubiquitous Microsoft software being "a symbol of corporate salesmanship – or lack thereof." However, he discovered that he could create pieces that were "moving, despite the limitations of the 'medium'." If the book is about anything, he says, it is about "taking subjective, even emotional, information and presenting it in a familiar audiovisual form using a medium that is different, and possibly better, than what was intended."

Read the WIRED magazine article, "Learning to Love PowerPoint"

Read an MSNBC interview with David Byrne

Browse Byrne's new book at Amazon.com (which includes reviews and previews)

Visit David Byrne at his own music label's site, or learn more from a fan site bio of Byrne

Visit Edward Tufte's own site, which contains his recent condemnation of PowerPoint as a presentation medium and information about his books and sculptures, or browse his "Envisioning Information" book at Amazon.com