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The TED Prize is awarded to an extraordinary individual with a creative and bold vision to spark global change. By leveraging the TED community’s resources and investing $1 million dollars into a powerful idea, the TED Prize supports one wish to inspire the world. . . . . .

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JR “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.”

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THE PLAN Art has the power to change the world.

It’s a neutral place for exchanges and discussions, which means it has the ability to change perceptions—the very way that we see others. Artist JR asks us to evoke this power by becoming a part of Inside Out. A large-scale, participatory art

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project, Inside Out transforms messages of

The Inside Out project has traveled

personal identity into public art, by making

from Ecuador to Nepal, and Mexico to

digitally-uploaded images into free posters

Palestine, inspiring group actions on

displayed in diverse communities. Posters

varied themes such as hope, diversity,

can be placed anywhere, from office

gender-based violence and climate change.

windows to walls of abandoned buildings.

Inside Out actions have shown Haiti’s

Participants

pop-up

resilience after the earthquake that killed

exhibitions, making them viewable online

hundreds of thousands; called attention

and part of the larger archive of actions.

to the wave of youth suicides at Standing

document

their

Rock Reservation in North Dakota; and introduced people living in refugee camps in Greece and Serbia. More than 300,000 portraits have been pasted in 140 countries worldwide. The project inspired the HBO documentary feature, Inside Out: The People’s Art Project, and the book, JR: Inside Out, which includes contributions from TED curator Chris Anderson as well as Pharrell Williams.

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INVOLVED Organize a group action with Inside out then “Like” the project on Facebook and spread the word.

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BIOGRAPHY Working anonymously, pasting his giant images on buildings, trains and bridges, the often-guerrilla artist JR forces us to see each other. Traveling to distant, often dangerous places—the slums of Kenya, the

favelas

communities,

of

Brazil—he

befriending

infiltrates inhabitants

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and recruiting them as models and

Images of Parisian thugs are pasted

collaborators. He gets in his subjects’

up in bourgeois neighborhoods; photos

faces with a 28mm wide-angle lens,

of Israelis and Palestinians are posted

resulting in portraits that are unguarded,

together on both sides of the walls that

funny, soulful, real, that capture the spirits

separate them. JR’s gained widespread

of individuals who normally go unseen.

attention for his project, “Women Are

The blown-up images pasted on urban

Heroes,” which depicted women “dealing

surfaces—the sides of buses, on rooftops—

with the effects of war, poverty, violence,

confront and engage audiences where they

and oppression” from Rio de Janeiro,

least expect it.

Phnom Penh and Delhi to several cities in Africa. His TED Prize wish opened an even wider lens on the world. With the prize, he launched Inside Out—a global participatory

art

project. Inside

Out

invites everyone to share their portrait and transform messages of personal identity into public art.

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SPREADING TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

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ABOUT TED TED started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

Along with two annual conferences—the TED Conference and TEDGlobal—TED includes the award–winning TED Talks

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video site, the Open Translation Project

The TED Prize is awarded annually to

and TED Conversations, the inspiring

an exceptional individual who receives

TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the

$1,000,000 and the TED community’s

annual TED Prize.

resources and expertise to spark global change. The Prize begins with a big wish—a wish to inspire thinkers and doers across the globe. From Bono’s The One Campaign (’05 recipient) to Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (’10 recipient) and JR’s Inside Out Project (’11 recipient), the TED Prize has helped to combat poverty, take on religious intolerance, improve global health, tackle child obesity, advance education, and inspire art around the world.

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WISH Imagine an inspiring, high impact idea or dream that needs the support of a global community to become real.

Our winner will have an ambitious wish—and the vision, pragmatism and leadership to make it a reality.

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THE AWARD We award TED Prize winners $1 million to inspire dreamers to think bigger about what’s possible. The award offers support to build a project’s core infrastructure quickly—so that others can add their own collaborative action.

THE ACTION Nomination happens two ways: nominate

yourself and make your wish, or nominate someone else, and we’ll ask them for their wish. The TED Prize committee will review all nominations and select the

THE 1 WISH Imagine an inspiring, high impact idea or dream that needs the support of a global community to become real.

Our winner will have an ambitious wish—and the vision, pragmatism and leadership to make it a reality.

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