[spectre] Life 4.0 cfp, deadline extended

[Rafael Lozano-Hemmer]

PLEASE NOTE DEADLINE EXTENDED

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.

Previous winners include Ken Rinaldo, Willy LeMaitre / Eric 
Rosenzveig, Ken Feingold, Erwin Driessens / Maria Verstappen, Bill 
Vorn / Louis Philippe Demers, Scott Draves, Simon Penny / Jamieson 
Schulte, Asa Unander-Scharin, Troy Innocent, Marc B=F6hlen / Michael 
Mateas, Doris Vila, Diane Ludin / Ricardo Dom=EDnguez, Gerard Boyer, 
Jane Prophet / Gordon Selley / Mark Hurry, Hod Lipson / Jordan B. 
Pollack, Institute of Applied Autonomy, Paul Brown, Eduardo Kac, 
Christa Sommerer / Laurent Mignonneau, Roc Par=E9s / Narc=EDs Par=E9s / 
Perry Hoberman, Linda Wallace and Naoko Tosa.

The new deadline for submission is Monday, November 12, 2001.

=46or further information and the application form, please see 
http://www.telefonica.es/fat/vida4
=46or questions concerning eligibility of entries: Nell Tenhaaf, 
Artistic Director <tenhaaf@yorku.ca>
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