{"id":380,"date":"2012-06-05T06:28:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/?p=380"},"modified":"2012-06-05T06:27:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T13:27:59","slug":"call-for-entries-vida-14-0-art-and-artificial-life-international-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/blog\/2012\/06\/call-for-entries-vida-14-0-art-and-artificial-life-international-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for entries VIDA 14.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards begun in 1999 by Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica, was created with the mission of supporting creative endeavours in this singular field by rewarding the pioneering efforts of artists. We are now pleased to announce the launch of the VIDA 14.0, which for the last 14 years have been rewarding artistic projects developed with technological media that offer innovative insights into the study of artificial life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAt a time when the concept of life finds itself once again in uncharted territory, a wide range of artistic initiatives attempt to illustrate and explore this phenomenon, examining its impact on our collective consciousness and how it affects the cultural, technological and social mindset.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past decade, VIDA has welcomed a variety of interdisciplinary projects that respond to this situation and brought them together in a single forum. Using formal strategies that push the boundaries between existing practices, these projects offer new perspectives that force us to reconsider our pre-existing notions of life and artificial life.<\/span><\/p>\n

What types of projects receive a VIDA 14.0?<\/span>
\nThe VIDA Award is granted to artistic creations developed using artificial life technology. Among the projects submitted to VIDA, the artists\u2019 ties to this theme and their choice of media are very diverse. Throughout its history, the competition has welcomed proposals that challenge the boundary between living and non-living, between natural and synthetic, either by juxtaposing both realities or by creating overlapping spaces for reflection.<\/span>
\nThe winning projects include robotic systems, immersive installations, online video games, autonomous self-organising devices and evolutionary indicators. Another common characteristic of past winners is the use of interactive and immersive installations\u2014a response to today\u2019s environment of technological entities\u2014which attempt to communicate with visitors by making them part of the system. Chimerical devices that combine natural and artificial elements, telepresence systems, network structures that operate as artificial intelligences, invasive dynamics of increasing complexity and acumen\u2014these are just some of the themes addressed by the artists who participate in VIDA. From the very first edition to the present day, we have rewarded artists who have applied traditional artificial life technologies to their work, such as cellular automata, autonomous agents, neural networks, robotics, interactive systems, virtual ecologies and evolving software. What all of these projects have in common is that they involve emergent behaviours which grow more sophisticated over time, react with their environment and seem to show signs of autonomous life.<\/span>
\nIn recent years we have observed an increasing hybridisation of media and formats among the projects submitted to VIDA, which has led us to advocate the category\u2019s expansion in order to trace the evolution of this field. The competition has gradually extended its scope, maintaining its interest in projects that involve conventional artificial life research while also venturing into new, cutting-edge territories such as life sciences and environmental sciences. In short, we could say that VIDA rewards artistic projects that are related to any dynamic life process affected by simulation.<\/span><\/p>\n

As in previous years, contestants are invited to submit proposals in one of two categories:<\/span>
\nCATEGORY \u201cFINALISED PROJECTS\u201d<\/span>
\nIn this category, Vida 14.0 rewards artistic artificial life projects developed after the year 2010. A total of 40,000 euros will be divided among the three winning projects chosen by the jury: First Prize: 18,000 euros; Second Prize: 14,000 euros; Third Prize: 8,000 euros. Seven honorary mentions will also be awarded to projects chosen by the jury from among the finalists.<\/span>
\nCATEGORY \u201cINCENTIVES FOR PRODUCTION”<\/span>
\nIn this category, Vida 14.0 helps to finance artistic artificial life projects that have not yet been produced. It is reserved for artists who are citizens or residents of any country in Latin America, Spain or Portugal. This category is also endowed with 40,000 euros to be divided among the selected projects.<\/span>
\nIMPORTANT DATES<\/span>
\nProject submissions must be submitted before midnight (Central European Time) on 30th July 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

JURY<\/span>
\nSubmitted projects will be reviewed by an international jury consisting of M\u00f3nica Bello (Spain), Jens Hauser (France), Martin Kaltenbrunner (Austria), Karla Jasso (Mexico), Sally Jane Norman (New Zealand\/France), Nell Tenhaaf (Canada) and Francisco Serrano, Executive Director of Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica.<\/span>
\nINFORMATION AND QUERIES<\/span>
\nYou can find the competition guidelines and the participation form at<\/span>http:\/\/www.fundacion.telefonica.com\/vida<\/a><\/span>
\nIf you have any questions about the competition, please refer to the FAQ section. You may also contact us by sending an email to<\/span> vida@telefonica.es<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

——<\/span>
\nM\u00f3nica Bello<\/span>
\nArtistic Director of VIDA<\/span>
\nArt and Artificial Life International Awards<\/span>
\nwww.fundaciontelefonica.org\/vida<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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