Q&A: Mark Dytham, PechaKucha co-founder, on connecting with creative people around us

During the day, Tokyo-based Klein Dytham architecture is busy designing the offices of Google Japan, or opening the most talked-about bookstore in Japan’s capital. Come nightfall, Mark Dytham and his partner Astrid Klein run the art space SuperDelux — and from that spawned an international sensation called PechaKucha nights. In the event series, presenters play show-and-tell with 20 images shown for 20 seconds each. Since their start in 2003, PechaKucha nights have spread from Tokyo to over 600 cities worldwide. “There’s actually nowhere in cities where artists and creative people can show and share their work,” Dytham said. He’s speaking to the work that doesn’t fit into a gallery or the artist nobody has ever heard of … yet. The success of PechaKucha points to a larger trend — the difference between digital to digital interactions, and using digital platforms to bring people together in the physical. Dytham says, contrary to popular opinion, ”There’s nothing social about Facebook or Twitter.” He believes the next phase of the internet will focus on digital to physical interactions. Already, startups that use online networks to connect people in the physical, such as Airbnb and Taskrabbit, are doing increasingly well. As a presentation format that connects disparate groups all over the… Read full this story

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