AIGA New Orleans Jambalaya

As it reads in tiny squiggely type on the top corner of this poster for the National conference of the American Institute of Graphic Arts: Why a headless chicken? Is it a metaphor for the profession? Should we stop running around like one and sign up for this very interesting conference? Is it a Voodoo symbol? Anti-technology? Will a mixture of telephone scribbles and turn of the century Art Brut really be the hot new style replacing wood veneer, itsy-bitsy type in boxes and round corners? Wasn't New Simplicity supposed to come first? Euro-Techno?