[spectre] (fwd) Fundación Telefónica / Call for entries : VIDA 13.0

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Fundación Telefónica
Art and technology



Call for entries: VIDA 13.0



At a time when the notion of life is once again 
located in an uncertain domain, a wide range of 
artistic initiatives come together to illustrate 
and investigate this phenomenon; they examine the 
impact on the collective conscience and the way 
it is manifested in cultural, technological and 
social thought.

Over the last decade, in the same formal space, 
VIDA has been bringing together 
inter-disciplinary projects that respond to this 
situation. By means of formal strategies that 
defy the boundaries between existing practices, 
these projects offer new ways of reflecting on 
what we understand by life and artificial life.

Fundación Telefónica announces the VIDA 13.0 Art 
& Artificial Life International Competition, 
which for the last twelve years has awarded 
prizes for artistic projects using technological 
mediums offering innovative approaches to 
research into artificial life.

The projects may be based on systems which 
emulate, imitate or speculate on the notion of 
life through current research and technology. 
These systems may involve attributes of agency 
and autonomy which display specific behaviour, 
are dynamic, react to their surroundings and 
evolve, and which question the frontiers between 
what is alive and what is not, between synthetic 
and organic life.

As in previous years there are two categories to the competition:

FINISHED PROJECTS

In this category VIDA 13.0 will award prizes to 
artistic ALife projects developed after 2008. The 
sum of 40,000 Euros will be shared between the 
projects selected by the jury: First Prize: 
18,000 Euros, Second Prize: 14,000 Euros, and 
Third Prize: 8,000 Euros. In addition seven 
honourable mentions will be awarded.

ARTISTIC PRODUCTION INCENTIVES IN IBEROAMERICA, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

In this category VIDA 13.0 helps to fund artistic 
ALife projects 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 Euros will be shared 
between the selected projects.

The winning projects will be subsequently exhibited at the VIDA Gallery,
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/arteytecnologia/galeriavida/. 
and may be presented in exhibitions related to 
art and new technologies organised by Fundación 
Telefónica or in which it takes part.

DATES

Period for submission of projects: from 19th July to 7th November 2010.

JURY

The works submitted will be examined by an 
international panel composed of José-Carlos 
Mariátegui (Peru), Mónica Bello Bugallo (Spain), 
Nell Tenhaaf (Canada) Rodrigo Alonso (Argentina), 
Simon Penny (USA/Australia), Zhan Ga (China) and 
Francisco Serrano (General Director of Fundación 
Telefónica).

ENQUIRIES

Queries may be addressed to the FAQs section of the website
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/arteytecnologia/
by e-mail to vida at telefonica.es or by calling (0034) 91 584 23 00.
<http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/en/>