2011 TED Prize winner JR has made his wish: “I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project. And together we’ll turn the world INSIDE OUT.”
INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Upload a portrait. Receive a poster. Paste it for the world to see.
Take your picture and submit it here: insideoutproject.net
Turning New York City INSIDE OUT: Volunteering at JR’s photo truckOn an unseasonably chilly Monday evening in Manhattan, hundreds stood in line in Times Square for up to two hours. As a city-dweller for seven years, I’ve seen queues this long for big Broadway openings or on New Year’s Eve. But this line was formed for a very different purpose — for people to have […]
Turning Haiti, Tunisia and the West Bank inside out: A documentary on JR’s worldwide participatory art project to air on HBO tonight“We use images like a weapon to fight for social causes,” says a man in the trailer for INSIDE OUT: The People’s Art Project, a new documentary that airs on HBO tonight. The doc tells the story of JR’s INSIDE OUT, a global art project in which anyone, anywhere, can send the artist a portrait […]
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Danijel Šivinjski commented on Mar 3 2011
Totally inspiring. Thank you JR and thank you TED.
magda rittenhouse commented on Mar 3 2011
This project (prize) is AS TED AS IT GETS! Gobal, participatory, meaningful and fun!!! Inspiring and exciting!!!
Stefanie Running commented on Mar 2 2011
This was an amazing and inspiring presentation. I can’t wait to answer JRs call and plaster my community!