Hasan Elahi is an artist who was mistakenly added to a US government watchlist and detained. In response, he created a website documenting his daily activities and whereabouts to turn over privacy and gain a sense of control. His presentation style kept the audience engaged through images and humor while telling his experience of gaining unwanted government attention and his creative response.

2. FBI, here I am!

3. Hasan Info
 Associate professor
at the University of
Maryland and has
exhibited at the
Venice Biennale, the
Centre Pompidou,
and the Hermitage

4. Hasan Thesis
 Hasan is a Privacy
artist after his name
was added (by
mistake) to US
government watch list
he fought the assault
on his privacy by
turning his life inside-
out for all the world to
see.
 He created a website
in 2002 after being
detained in Detroit

5. How did Hasan grab the
audience attention
 Hasan took the
audience attention
by calling himself an
“artist” then follow
with what most
people ask “Do you
paint?” he than tell
them what his job is
how he is a “creative
problem solving” he
than use a image
slideshow.

6. The Privacy Artist
 After being added to “By me putting all this
U.S. government by information out there,
mistake and detained what I am simultaneously
in Detroit, Hasan was telling everything and
subjected to six nothing about my life.” –
months questioning Hasan Elahi
and even after being “the best way to protect
clear he figurer once privacy is to give it
in the system, never away,” –Hasan Elahi
out, so he decided to
turn the table
outsmarted
intelligence agencies
giving them what they
want.

7. How did Speaker maintain
engagement
 Hasan maintain the
audience attention
by using images,
telling jokes, and
mainly kept there
attention by being
honesty with them
showing proof of it
with pictures and his
cleverness over the
U.S. intelligence
agencies.

8. Dynamism Rating 4/5
 I felt he could do better with voice tone, I
found myself sometime becoming
uninterested well he was talking. But his
images slides how all the places and
dishes was great because each pic had
a story to it and that is was what kept
me into it.

9. Garr Reynolds Tips
 One how what Garr does is use your
slides as humorous punctuation,
because images are more memorable
and it creates the element of surprise.
 Leave the audience feeling smarter, they
are entertained and intellectually
stimulated.

10. What have I learned about
delivery?
 I have learned your delivery intro can be
a boost or a sleeper for the audience so
you must work hard to impress them
and keep it in tune throughout the
presentation.
 I’ve learned from my presenter that a
picture can tell a thousand how words.
I’ve learned now how important slides
are in presentation and what big impact
it can do your audiences.

11. Sir Ken Robinson v. Hansan
Elahi

12. Sir Ken Robinson v. Hasan Elahi
Comparing the two
 They both have great thesis and get
there point across.
 Both men are well educated and both
work for college university.
 You can see the passion there eyes
when they talk.

13. Difference
 Sir Ken vocal tone was  Hasan was also pretty
better than and it seem interesting, I will go far
his presentation was as saying he invited
more information and social media websites
fundamental. His natural with his slides and
humor was great, it kept stories behind every
the audience into it. image. His topics were
also great I leaned a
thing or two from about
intelligence agencies.
Sir Ken Robinson v.
Hasan Elahi

14. Tips for my peers
Telling from what I’ve learned is your voice
tone is key so practice week before your
presentation, you can present it to your
friends and get there opinion. Another tip
will be to not be afraid to fail.
“The only people who never are those who
never try.” -Fortune cookie
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll
never come up with anything original.”
-Ken Robinson

15. References
-Speakers hasan elahi: Privacy artist. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.ted.com/speakers/hasan_elahi.html
-Duarte, N. (2011, May 11). 3 tips you can learn from garr
reynolds’ presentation style. Retrieved from
http://blog.duarte.com/2009/05/3-tips-you-can-learn-from-
garr-reynolds’-presentation-style/
-Speakers ken robinson: Author/educator. (n.d.). Retrieved
from http://www.ted.com/speakers/sir_ken_robinson.html