[mch2022-deco] AURORA art for WHY2025

[jeroen at ifcat.org]

Blausand,

Thank you for calling me yesterday about coming to WHY2025.
I am a bit in a hurry this morning and I could find this message from you from 2022 so I am using that to bring our 2025 call for art to your attention.

WHY2025 Call for Art
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We Hackers Yearn for art! To dress up the upcoming WHY2025 hackercamp We are looking for artworks and are calling on artists, makers and hackers to give their creativity free reign to dress up the WHY2025 grounds with their creativity.

**The Ask**
The things that we look for artworks or installations that can be set up as a single object or a small cluster of objects and that connect to our visual theme of space, neon and synthwave. With a strong preference for artworks that include lighting effects.

We do offer reimbursement for material costs, within reason and budget limits are up for discussion and depending on the awesomeness. If you don’t have a workshop or storage space we can offer, in consultation, a place to build and store your works in advance of the event. This will be in the hackerspaces Bitlair, Amersfoort or Hackalot, Eindhoven. In both hackerspaces you will find a range of tools, equipment and a welcoming culture of creative people.

When designing and building your artworks keep in mind that WHY2025 is an outdoor festival and most works will be exhibited in the open air, in Dutch summer conditions (wet, dry, hot, sunny, everything is possible).

**The Benefit**
Exposure! You get to exhibit your idea at a four day event with about
3.500 visitors. It’s a bit of a cliché, we know. As a non-profit fully volunteer run event we unfortunately can’t pay you handsomely for your efforts. But you can count on a community of people that will be interested in your work, be happy to ask detailed questions, and will appreciate the minute nerdy details that costed you hours to figure out.

Community! If you’re not already familiar with the hacker/maker community, prepare to be welcomed by a group of people that is open to cool works, that will lend a hand when needed, like to learn from you, or teach you a skill you don’t yet posses. A community that gathers in a network of Hackerspaces around the country to create cool things.

**About WHY2025**
WHY2025 is a nonprofit outdoors hacker camp taking place in Geestmerambacht, the Netherlands (approx 42km North of Amsterdam), on
8-12 August 2025. The event is organized for and by volunteers from the worldwide hacker community. Knowledge sharing, technological advancement, experimentation, connecting with your hacker peers, forging friendships and hacking (everything from computers to food) are at the core of this event.

For more information about the invent visit our Wiki.

**How to propose your idea**
If you want to propose your ideas or want to discuss options: please get in touch with the volunteers of Team:Deco via email: deco at lists.why2025.org

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> On 18 Jul 2022, at 20:02, Michael N. Baumann <baumann at oktoskop.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey netsmurf,
> 
> this is blausand, remember? We met on CCCamp19, i'm the guy behind the 
> sun shaped mirror sculpture AURORA, see aurora.blausand.net
> 
> After long uncertainties, i grabbed my guts and took the train from Cologne to Berlin in order to bring AURORA to MCH.
> Polyfloyd from Team Decoration takes care about the project and there will be plenty of supportive people around.
> 
> I just want to notify you since i believe to remember you seemed to like the project back then. 
> 
> I also need to ask for help regarding access. Since it's been the damn most expensive project for me as a professional artist, i couldn't buy tickets 'just as everybody else' for bringing my work to MCH. I hope you understand the difference. And i hope you can link me to the right people to solve the issue so late. 
> Really sorry to bother you!!
> 
> So, see you on Wednesday evening, if everything works out fine!
> --
> Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Hitchhiker's Guide gesendet.

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