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International Competition on Art and Artificial Life. VIDA 10.0

http://www.telefonica.es/vida

Fundación Telefónica is attempting to promote the convergence of Art, Science and Technology by holding an international competition which rewards those works of art developed using Artificial Life technologies.

At previous editions, prizes were given to art projects created with robots, electronic avatars, chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automatons, computer viruses, virtual ecologies which evolve by interacting with the participant and works which delve into social aspects of Artificial Life.

Selected Projects

A total of 20,000 euros will be awarded to the projects selected by the jury:

First prize: 10,000 euros
Second prize: 7,000 euros
Third prize: 3,000 euros

Exhibition

The selected projects will be exhibited at the International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO) in Madrid in February 2008.

Incentive for Production

The competition's second category will help finance Artificial Life art projects (and those of associated disciplines) that have not yet been made. The competition is open to participants from anywhere in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Jury

The works submitted will be examined by an international jury that will be meeting as of November 7, 2007. The prize winners' names and special mentions will be announced at an award ceremony.

Members of the Jury
Mónica Bello Bugallo, Spain
Daniel Canogar, Spain
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Canada/Mexico
José-Carlos Mariátegui, Peru
Nell Tenhaaf, Canada
Simon Penny, USA/Australia

Dates:
Project submission dates:
September 17-October 22, 2007.
Deliberation by the jury:
November 7-9, 2007.

You may send your proposal in along with the application form and required materials to any of the following addresses:

SPAIN
Ángeles Pérez Muela
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundación Telefónica
Gran Vía, 32. 5a planta
28013 Madrid, Spain
Phone: 34 91 584 23 05
Fax: 34 91 584 0656

PERU
Ana María Castañeta
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundación Telefónica
Av. Arequipa 1155
Santa Beatriz
Lima, Peru
Phone: 511 210 1544
Fax: 511 419 0501

ARGENTINA
Silvana Spadaccini
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundación Telefónica
Arenales 1540
1061 Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone: 5411 4333 1317
Fax: 5411 4333 1307

CHILE
Claudia Villaseca
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundación Telefónica
Providencia, 111 - P. 25
Santiago, Chile
Phone: 562 691 3741
Fax: 562 236 7138

BRAZIL
Adriana Lomonaco
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundação Telefônica
Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 1188 -- conjuntos 33 e 34
CEP 01451-001 São Paulo-SP, Brazil
Phone: 5511 3035 1956
Fax: 5511 3035 1950

MÉXICO
Francisco Mijares
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundación Telefónica
Av. Prolongación Paseo de la Reforma, 1200 -- piso 08
Colonia Cruz Manca. Cuajimalpa de Morelos
C.P. 05349 -- México D.F. México
Phone: 5255 1616 7587
Fax: 5255 1616 8053

For further information on the competition, please write to:
Ángeles Pérez Muela: angeles.perezmuela@telefonica.es

Applicants may consult the winning projects from previous years at the VIDA website, http://www.telefonica.es/vida in order to determine whether their projects fit in with the philosophy
of the prize.