Military Powerpoint Karaoke: a night of “Powerpoint Karaoke” using presentations in the
Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex collection at
archive.org that were thoughtfully extracted during the Internet Archive’s 2018 end-of-term web crawl.
Also known as “Battle Decks,” Powerpoint Karaoke is an improvisational and art event where audience members give a presentation using a set of Powerpoint slides that they’ve never seen before. There are three rules: 1) The presenter cannot see the slides before presenting; 2) The presenter delivers each slide in succession without skipping slides or going back; and 3) The presentation ends when all slides are presented, or after 5 minutes (whichever comes first). The presentations will be delivered by you -- the audience members who sign up.
This event will use, as its source material, a curated collection of the
Internet Archive’s Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex, a special project for the Internet Archive's 20th Anniversary in which IA staff extracted all the Powerpoint files openly available from the government’s “.mil” web domain. This collection contains over 57,000 Powerpoint decks, each charged with material that ranges from the violent to the banal, featuring attack modes, leadership styles, harness types, and modes for requesting vacation days from the US Military. As a whole, this collection forms a unique snapshot into our government’s Military Industrial Complex.
