[alife] Call for entries: VIDA 13.2 Art and Artificial Life International Awards

[monica bello]

Call for entries: VIDA 13.2 Art and Artificial Life International Awards

Until July 27th 2011

Fundacion Telefonica has made a commitment to technological innovation
related to art as the central focus of its activities, showing special
interest in support to forums around art, science and technology. This is
the background to VIDA, the international competition which, since 1999, has
recognized art and Artificial life projects

The hybrid forms of the artistic proposals recently submitted to VIDA, and
the transformation of the discipline of artificial life itself, have
prompted us to consider new issues, such as the rising importance of
simulation in both social life and the life sciences. VIDA has been
broadening its reach by remaining interested in A-life inspired projects and
also expanding: VIDA seeks artistic projects engaged with any dynamic living
process that has been affected by simulation.

The outcomes of areas of research that synthesize computational methods with
life sciences and living systems are increasingly present in daily
experiences: the foods we consume, the pets we take care of, the
environments we occupy, the virtual spaces we meet in, the medicines we
take, or the materials we use to build the computers with which we work -
all of these are subject to a volatile conception of what constitutes our
surroundings. We also increasingly live in a data world where dynamic
visualizations map the real and virtual onto each other, and entangle
bodies, environments and networks. In the projects VIDA is soliciting,
artists’ engagement with these themes and their choice of media are very
open: the approach can be computational, physical, social, metaphorical, or
any combination of those. Projects must be artistically well-resolved and
realized with appropriate technological sophistication. VIDA welcomes
proposals that advance or challenge discourses and artistic modes, tropes
and formal systems, and that show both aesthetic and social relevance.

There are two categories to the competition:

CATEGORY FINALIZED PROJECTS:

In this category VIDA 13.2 will award prizes to artistic three projects
working in art and artificial life developed after 2008. The sum of 40,000 €
will be shared between three projects selected by the jury:


1st prize: 18,000 €

2nd prize:14,000 €

3rd prize: 8,000 €

In addition seven honorable mentions will be awarded.


 CATEGORY INCENTIVES FOR PRODUCTION

In this category VIDA 13.2 helps to fund artistic projects working in art
and artificial life that have not yet been produced. This is aimed at
citizens or residents of countries comprising Latin America, Spain and
Portugal. The sum of 40,000 € will be shared between several selected
projects.

You can access the submission form and competition guidelines at *
www.fundacion.telefonica.com/vida*<http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/vida>


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Mónica Bello Bugallo

Artistic Director of VIDA

Art and Artificial Life International Awards

*www.fundaciontelefonica.com/vida* <http://www.fundaciontelefonica.com/vida>





















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Mónica Bello Bugallo
Artistic Director of VIDA
Art and Artificial Life International Awards
www.fundaciontelefonica.com/vida