[spectre] Call for entries VIDA 13.2 - New deadline: August 7th

[MONICA BELLO]

Call for entries: VIDA 13.2 Art and Artificial Life International Awards
New deadline: Until August 7th 2011
Fundacion Telefonica has made a commitment to technological innovation  
related to art as the central focus of its activities, showing special  
interest in support to forums around art, science and technology. This  
is the background to VIDA, the international competition which, since  
1999, has recognized art and Artificial life projects
The hybrid forms of the artistic proposals recently submitted to VIDA,  
and the transformation of the discipline of artificial life itself,  
have prompted us to consider new issues, such as the rising importance  
of simulation in both social life and the life sciences. VIDA has been  
broadening its reach by remaining interested in A-life inspired  
projects and also expanding: VIDA seeks artistic projects engaged with  
any dynamic living process that has been affected by simulation.
The outcomes of areas of research that synthesize computational  
methods with life sciences and living systems are increasingly present  
in daily experiences: the foods we consume, the pets we take care of,  
the environments we occupy, the virtual spaces we meet in, the  
medicines we take, or the materials we use to build the computers with  
which we work - all of these are subject to a volatile conception of  
what constitutes our surroundings. We also increasingly live in a data  
world where dynamic visualizations map the real and virtual onto each  
other, and entangle bodies, environments and networks. In the projects  
VIDA is soliciting, artists’ engagement with these themes and their  
choice of media are very open: the approach can be computational,  
physical, social, metaphorical, or any combination of those. Projects  
must be artistically well-resolved and realized with appropriate  
technological sophistication. VIDA welcomes proposals that advance or  
challenge discourses and artistic modes, tropes and formal systems,  
and that show both aesthetic and social relevance.
There are two categories to the competition:
CATEGORY FINALIZED PROJECTS:
In this category VIDA 13.2 will award prizes to artistic three  
projects working in art and artificial life developed after 2008. The  
sum of 40,000 € will be shared between three projects selected by the  
jury:
1st prize: 18,000 €
2nd prize:14,000 €
3rd prize: 8,000 €
In addition seven honorable mentions will be awarded.
CATEGORY INCENTIVES FOR PRODUCTION
In this category VIDA 13.2 helps to fund artistic projects working in  
art and artificial life 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 € will be shared between several  
selected projects.
You can access the submission form and competition guidelines at www.fundacion.telefonica.com/vida

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Mónica Bello Bugallo
Artistic Director of VIDA
Art and Artificial Life International Awards
www.fundaciontelefonica.com/vida























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