Slideshow: PowerPoint Message Is the Medium

A competition tries to elevate the dreaded PowerPoint presentation to an artful endeavor, but many participants poke fun at the program instead of exploiting its features. By Daniel Terdiman.
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During the competition, the most common motif was faith at work.Daniel Terdiman

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Many of the artists who participated in the PowerPoint to the People competition created simple slides making fun of the buttoned-down nature of the medium.

Daniel Terdiman
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The few competitors who utilized charts did so ironically, as in this slide, "Forever Jung."

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