PowerPoint karaoke

The PowerPoint Karaoke is an offshoot of the classic karaoke , in which participants sing any lyrics, but from the impromptu not known a talk to them before, keep randomly selected slides. These can either be specially created or you can use slides that you found on the Internet. It is a rhetorical, presentation training game with an entertainment character. Sometimes it is now also used as an improv theater or theater sport game.

origin

On April 13, 2005, a nonsense article created using the SCIgen software by three MIT students named Jeremy Stribling, Max Krohn and Dan Aguayo was admitted to the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics without being examined . After the article was ultimately rejected due to reports on the Slashdot website , the three students rented their own conference room to give lectures on computer-generated nonsense slide sets.

places

PowerPoint karaoke events are currently taking place in Hamburg, Tübingen, Krefeld, Bochum, Berlin, Vienna and Stuttgart, among others. The organizers often come from the poetry slam scene, such as Hinnerk Köhn (Hamburg), Jean Philippe Kindler (Tübingen) or Johannes Floehr (Krefeld).

In Switzerland, the Folientango association organizes an annual finale with the best presenters in PowerPoint karaoke. The association also carries out PowerPoint karaoke in Zurich, Bern and Basel.

Invention process and naming

The Powerpoint karaoke format was developed by the Central Intelligence Agency ; the world premiere took place in January 2006 in Berlin. The name Powerpoint Karaoke alludes to the PowerPoint presentation software of the same name from Microsoft .

Game objective

Powerpoint karaoke offers an opportunity to improve rhetorical skills in a playful way. It can also be viewed as a parody of pointless presentations .

Web links

• Spiegel article on the computer-generated nonsense lectures given by MIT students
• the automatic paper generator SCIgen
• Play powerpoint karaoke online KAPOPO
• Spiegel article on PowerPoint karaoke
• PowerPoint Karaoke at the camp in 2007 of the CCC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PowerPoint Karaoke - Hamburg Tips - ZEIT ONLINE . In: Events . July 22, 2015 ( zeit.de [accessed December 31, 2017]). PowerPoint Karaoke - Hamburg Tips - ZEIT ONLINE ( Memento from December 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Poetry Slam Tübingen: PowerPoint-Karaoke # 1 - December 12, 2017. Accessed December 31, 2017 . 
3. ↑ PowerPoint karaoke . In: KR-ONE . ( kr-one.de [accessed December 31, 2017]).
4. ↑ Power Point Karaoke - AStA of the Ruhr University Bochum. Accessed December 31, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Powerpoint karaoke. November 23, 2016, accessed December 31, 2017 (German). 
6. ↑ volume.at: Turbo PowerPoint Karaoke, 09/11/2017, Vienna, Mon Ami. Retrieved December 31, 2017 . 
7. ↑ STUTTGARTER POWER POINT KARAOKE. Accessed December 31, 2017 (German). 
8. ↑ Jean-Marc Nia: A nightmare comes true . In: Tages-Anzeiger . February 20, 2019, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed November 5, 2019]).
9. ↑ Central Intelligence Agency ( Memento from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Hubert Knoblauch : PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society (=  Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives ). Cambridge University Press, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-521-19732-8 , pp. 171 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).