David Byrne: PowerPoint As An Instrument Of Art

Rocker David Byrne is touring with his current instrument of choice – a computer loaded with PowerPoint. “Byrne is most interesting when he goes off on flights of fancy that illustrate why he is called the Renaissance man of rock. “PowerPoint is a symptom of a long train of thought that started picking up steam during the Enlightenment,” he says. “The idea was that we could name everything and draw lines that connect them.”