Team:Deco/CfA
WHY2025 Call for Art
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. (Congrats, you did it!)
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@lists.why2025.org