CALL FOR ENTRIES | “wdydwyd?” art exhibit
2010 Burning Man Festival | DEADLINE: next Monday, July 26 @7pm California time
Submit here | tag photos: “BM10“ | Instructions for submitions | high res PDF of flyer
Answer “Why do you do what you do?” by combining text + imagery in a creative way.
wdydwyd? is mounting an exhibition at Burning Man 2010 — an event that brings over 50,000 people to a prehistoric lake bed for one of the world’s largest and most avant-garde art festivals.
Since 2004, over 10,000 people have answered, “wdydwyd?” from groups as diverse as Harvard Business School, Google & Twitter employees, Echoing Green Foundation, Kellogg Foundation Fellows, Burners as well as notable figures such as Steve Case, the founder of AOL, and Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms. Magazine. Thousands of Collaborating Artists have turned “wdydwyd?” into a social-media meme. Many people have replicated the project at schools and in communities around the world. The project has been featured in media such as BBC WORLD Television and a million people have visited www.wdydwyd.com. Here’s a little story about how the project started.
Selection jury includes:
// WILL CHASE, High Priest of Propaganda, Burning Man & Freelance Art Curator
// SONIA CUMMINGS, Nathan Cummings Foundation
// DICKY DAVIES, de Young Museum & Black Rock Arts Foundation
// REBECCA ALBAN HOFFBERGER, Founder, American Visionary Art Museum
// BETH SCARBOROUGH, Art Curator & Assoc Dir of Art Management, Burning Man
// TIFFANY SHLAIN, filmmaker & founder Webby Awards
// DAVID SILVERMAN, producer of The Simpsons
// MARK VAN PROYEN, Chair, Painting Dept., SF Art Institute & Corresponding Editor for Art In America.
Produced in collaboration with Brooklyn Art Project.
Tony Deifell is managing director of Q Media Labs, which explores questions of how media, technology and business shape society. Q Media Labs provides strategy consulting, leadership training and new project development for clients such as The Democracy Alliance, The Media Consortium, Google, UCLA and the Echoing Green Foundation, among others. Its recent work includes The Big Thaw: Charting a New Course for Journalism and case studies about Mother Jones, AlterNet, Sierra Club and Brightcove’s online media business models.
Tony has spent two decades as an entrepreneur, organizational strategist and media-maker. He founded and led for eight years the Institute for Public Media Arts, a company that promoted “user-generated content” before there was a label for it. His work received recognition by the White House as a national model in diversity education. Tony was a fellow in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s National Leadership Program and has served on national boards including Active Voice, Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance and Social Enterprise Alliance where he co-chaired its public policy initiative. Tony was a founding board member of KaBOOM!, the national market leader for community-built playgrounds. Tony created the successful participatory-art project wdydwyd?, which challenges people to answer the question, “why do you do what you do?” In 2007, he published Seeing Beyond Sight (Chronicle Books), an award-winning book of photography by blind teenagers that was in the New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times and featured on KQED’s The Forum with Michael Krasny. As unusual as “blind photography” may sound, Tony draws broadly applicable lessons from it to talk about leadership and innovation and challenges people to consider what they see and don’t see.
Tony studied anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School where he started a national conference about leadership and values. In 2008, the UNC-Chapel Hill acknowledged Tony’s work by selecting him for its Distinguished Young Alumnus Award—a distinction he holds in common with former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Congressman Jim Cooper and sports star Michael Jordan.
