Open Call_Crypto Design Challenge

Crypto Design Callout 

The Crypto Design Challenge is an open call to all young designers and artists in Belgium and the Netherlands to develop new ideas and to submit inspiring plans and proposals to make the encryption of digital images and information accessible to all. 

Making texts and images secure is complicated, and its's something that designers are not or insufficiently concerned about at present. This call aims to change that. With this challenge we aim to offer insight in the mysterious world of cryptography and privacy, made accessible by design. This open call is directed at professional designers and artists, students of universities and art schools, tech companies and design studios. 

Reports on computer and online security have dominated global news headlines in recent years. Edward Snowden, and ex-employee of the American security agency NSA, gave the world an inside view of the United States government's practices. But Dutch government agencies and businesses are just as eager to snoop around in your computer, to record and store your online behaviour, and to collect all sorts of information. The amount of data all of us are producing collectively is growing tremendously, since everyone and everything is now online. Stored on large servers at various companies and public authorities, this huge collection of digital data is referred to as 'Big Data'. We are constantly being spied on, and we don't yet know how this will affect us and what we can do about it. Right now there aren't many ways of escaping this surveillance, and the means that are available are difficult to understand or hard to use. 

Submitting work: We invite you to upload an idea on the Crypto Design Challenge website. Submission should consist of a description and visuals. choice of materials is entirely free: photography, video, animation, 3D, 2D, print, gaming, interactive, audio and code. A renowned jury of experts will select the most original and outstanding submissions.  A selection of the project will be displayed at MOTI, Museum of the Image in Breda. Also, the Crypto Design Manifest will be published in autumn of this year, which might also feature your idea. 
Final submission date: 1 August 2015.