<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Dear friends, </font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Since 1999, VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Competition has awarded artistic
projects using technological media that offer highly innovative approaches to
research into artificial life. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">We are very proud to announce VIDA 13.2 awards. </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">The submitted projects were examined by an international jury comprising the following members: Mónica Bello (Spain), Jens Hauser (France), Karla Jasso (Mexico), Sally Jane Norman (New Zealand/France), Simon Penny (USA/Australia), Nell Tenhaaf (Canada) and Francisco Serrano, Executive Director of Fundación Telefónica.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>1st Prize, awarded with 18,000 €</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Naked on Pluto by Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk and Dave Griffiths (Neatherlands)</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Naked on Pluto proposes a playful yet disturbing online game
world, developed with Free/ Libre Open Source Software, which parodies
the insidiously invasive traits of much "social software". The city of
"Elastic Versailles" is animated by the quirky combinatorial logics of
a community of fifty seven AI bots that glean Facebook data from
subscribers to the game. Naked on Pluto's bot crew, which are hard to
distinguish from other agents in this text-based environment, are
dysfunctional gatekeepers whose access-control means are broken by the
participants only to be elastically "healed" by the bots. Players
attempt to override the game's restrictions, teaming up in order to
ultimately crash and escape from the system. Reporting on activities
via a blog and Twitter, and issuing a constant stream of incitations to
click, declare, poke and buy, the bots run havoc with one's own and
one's friends' data, generating more or less spurious links with
chillingly escalating speed. Disconcertingly familiar faces and
information from one's personal and associated profiles are
indiscriminately blended in a brash prosumer landscape which, like the
original Versailles, is designed for promotional parades of inseparable
personal and ideological attributes.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>2nd Prize, awarded with 14,000 €</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Ocular Revision by Paul Vanouse (United States)</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">A provocative live installation lies in the biotechnological
creation of DNA images that are radically different from the abstracted
banding patterns now familiar from media images. Ocular Revision
turns this “genetic mapping” on its head, remediating it in the sense
of both restoration and opposition. Vanouse proposes a return to the
more holistic view of biology that was promoted within the sciences
prior to the late twentieth century characterization of DNA as code.
His technical strategy was to build an entirely novel circular (rather
than rectangular) gel electrophoresis apparatus. It still uses
electrical current to pull DNA through the gel; here, the DNA moves not
across linearly, but from the perimeter toward the centre of the rig.
The result is DNA visualization as a flow or flowering. Further,
Vanouse makes maps from DNA, rather than of DNA. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>3rd Prize, awarded with 8,000 €</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Protei by Cesar Harada (France/Japan)</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Protei “an open source sailing drone”, is an ambitious, open
and distributed interdiscipilinary design project directed at an issue
of global environmental concern – ocean oil spills and the limitations
and toxicity of conventional clean up methods. The goal of Protei is the development and production of autonomous sailing vessels which trail long oil-absorbent tails behind them. Protei
thus combines ‘green’ motivations, a net-distributed collaborative
design process, and an open source ethos with a conception of autonomous
machine agency. Instigated by Cesar Harada after the Deepwater Horizon
disaster, Protei involves an international network of
specialists. The project has developed a number of sailing prototypes
and several unique innovations in naval architecture. Protei blurs distinctions between science, design, art, environmental activism and political activism. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Honorary Mentions:</b></font></div><div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">That Which Lives in Me by </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Dmitry Bulatov y Alexey Chebykin (Russia)<br></font></div><div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Zoanthroid – a Hybrid Entity, a Technile Organism </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Felix Hardmood Beck (Germany)<br></font></div><div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Oh!m1gas: biomimetric stridulation environment </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> Kuai Shen (Ecuador)<br></font></div><div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Intelligent Bacteria: Saccharomyces Cerevisiae</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">J. Togar Abraham, N. Akbar, A. Tri, V. Christiawan (Indonesia)<br></font></div><div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Back, here, below, formidable [the rebith of prehistoric creatures] </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Marguerite Humeau (France)<br></font></div><div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Growth Pattern </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Allison Kudla (United States)<br></font></div><div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Transducers</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Verena Friedrich (Germany)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">In the category of <b>Incentives for Production</b> which awards no yet made projects by artists who work in Spain, Portugal or Latinoamerica, VIDA 13.2 has awarded the following projects:</font></div><div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Concerto fotosintético by </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Paula Pin (Spain)</font></div><div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Faith (Molding Faith - The Shape of the Signifier) by </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Daria Czibulka y Ivor Diosi (Spain)<br></font></div><div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Institute for the Studies of Biological Enigmas - Mar Menor Research by </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Clara Boj and Diego Diaz </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">(Spain)</span></div><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Territorio Exquisito by </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">María Pía Vásquez (Chile/México)<br></font><span class="obra2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Pixel Bite by </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Diego Suárez (Spain)<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Speak by Rejane Cantoni and Leonardo Cantoni (Brazil)</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div>The main prizes will be show in ARCO Art Fair in February 2012.</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">You can find more information of the projects in Fundación Telefónica website: </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.fundaciontelefonica.com/vida">www.fundaciontelefonica.com/vida</a></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">------<br><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; 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"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Mónica Bello Bugallo<br>Artistic Director of VIDA </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Art and Artificial Life International Awards</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.fundaciontelefonica.com/vida">www.fundaciontelefonica.com/vida</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Current activities:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">VIDA 13.2 Prizes announcement:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/en/arteytecnologia/certamen_vida/index.htm">http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/en/arteytecnologia/certamen_vida/index.htm</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">ISEA paper "VIDA, new discourses, tropes and modes in art and artificial life research":</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/paper/vida-new-discourses-tropes-and-modes-art-and-artificial-life-research">http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/paper/vida-new-discourses-tropes-and-modes-art-and-artificial-life-research</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div></span></div><div>e.mail: <a href="mailto:mb@monicabello.org">mb@monicabello.org</a> </div><div>mobile: +34 654 56 32 39</div><div>skype: monicacapsula</div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div></span></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>