[spectre] artificial life

Tue, 16 Oct 2001 23:47:44 +0200

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Dear Spectres,

In these strange daze where the status of real life sometimes appears
impossibly equivocal, it's odd but perhaps oddly fitting to throw in a post
for an artificial life event. Perhaps that's the way the fortune cookie
crumbles?

17th October is a date in France where between 20 and 200 or many more
(these quibbles with zeros...) real lives were lost in the middle of Paris,
as peaceful protesters for Algerian independence were publicly cornered and
massacred by the French police force (uncounted numbers were hemmed in on
Paris's beautiful bridges then blithely thrown into the Seine). A grim date
and/ but one that deserves to be thought about all the more in the current
context. The attempt at Berber language reinstatement sought by Bouteflika,
mentioned in my last football post, is all the more perverse, in that this
second official language would thus be enthroned along a first language that
hardly anybody uses in Algeria - namely classical Arabic, hugely different
from the Algerian Arabic that the authorities don't want to recognise. i.e.
everyday language, as opposed to the immutable language of the Koran,
amongst other things. As we say in French, "c'est à perdre son latin" -
"enough to put you off your Latin".

Hope you don't mind the digression, Rafa, just feels very funny (?) this
artificial life announcement. And/ but very much a part of real life.

besos

sjn

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VIDA 4.0 Concurso Internacional - Convocatoria

Tercera edicion de la competicion internacional sobre "arte y vida
artificial" patrocinada por la Fundacion Telefonica en Espana.  Estamos
buscando obras de arte basadas en tecnicas o temas como la genetica digital,
robotica autonoma, algoritmos caoticos recursivos, cogni-bots, virus
informaticos, avatares, comportamientos evolutivos o ecosistemas virtuales.

Un jurado internacional (Daniel Canogar, Machiko Kusahara, Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer, Arlindo Machado, Sally Jane Norman y Nell Tenhaaf) concedera
cuatro premios en metalico con un monto total de 20.000 dolares, de los
cuales 10.000 se destinaran a incentivar la produccion de nuevas piezas.

Viernes 2 de noviembre del 2001: Fin del plazo de presentacion de trabajos.
Para mas informacion sobre las condiciones de la competicion y el impreso de
inscripcion, consulte la pagina web  http://www.telefonica.es/fat/vida4/

Para cualquier consulta sobre los requisitos para participar en el concurso
dirigirse a: Nell Tenhaaf, Directora Artistica <tenhaaf@yorku.ca>

Para cualquier otra consulta: Ana Parga <fat@telefonica.es>

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LIFE 4.0 International Competition - Call for Participation

Third edition of the international competition on "art and artificial life"
sponsored by the Telefonica Foundation in Madrid. We are looking for
artworks employing techniques and themes such as digital genetics,
autonomous robotics, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, computer
viruses, avatars, evolving behaviours or virtual ecosystems. An
international jury (Daniel Canogar, Machiko Kusahara, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer,
Arlindo Machado, Sally Jane Norman and Nell Tenhaaf) will grant four cash
awards totaling 20,000 US dollars.

The deadline for submission is Friday, November 2, 2001. For further
information and the application form, please see
http://www.telefonica.es/fat/vida4/

For questions concerning eligibility of entries: Nell Tenhaaf, Artistic
Director <tenhaaf@yorku.ca>

All other inquiries: Ana Parga <fat@telefonica.es>

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