Key notes.

Key Notes is a lecture as performance based on the Keynote Address and motivational speaking, using the Mac 'Keynote' software as support. The additional motivation came from Layzell's extended experience as a visionaire (artist in industry) from 1996-2003. This work is a commentary on aspects of corporate life, self, and media presentation. This work combines vitriol and humour to unpick the foibles and manipulations of corporate and motivational speaking. The audience is beguiled through sophisticated technique and the technically familiar to be seduced by content that is essentially nonsensical.

Subsequently performed at Live Art Falmouth, Cornwall in June 2008 (review in URL link) June 2008 (review in URL link) and at Colchester Arts Centre in June 09. It was also given as a conference Keynote Address for ISEA (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts which is an international nonprofit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies.) conference in Belfast, August 2009.