VIDA 10.0 Awards

The hybrid forms of the artistic proposals submitted to VIDA and the transformation of the discipline of A-Life itself have prompted the jury to consider new issues, such as the rising importance of simulation in both social life (for example, in the concept of virtual personality) and organic life (evident in the concept of "neo-organisms"). These phenomena are increasingly present and have therefore received special attention in our current approach to art and artificial life.

Jury for the Vida 10.0 competition: Daniel Canogar (Spain), Monica Bello (Spain), José-Carlos Mariátegui (Peru/UK), Simon Penny (USA) and Nell Tenhaaf (Canadá). The jury reviewed 152 submissions received from 32 countries.

Vida 10.0 competition awards are as follow:

FIRST PRIZE
etoy.CORPORATION
Mission eternity sarcophagus (Switzerland, 2006-07)
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/popUpPremiados/html/MissionEternitySarcophagus-en.html

SECOND PRICE
Oron Catts y Ionat Zurr
NoArk (Australia, 2007)
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/popUpPremiados/html/NoArk-en.html

THIRD PRICE
Leandro M. Nuñez
Propagations (Argentina, 2007)
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/popUpPremiados/html/Propagaciones-en.html

SPECIAL MENTIONS
David Rokeby
Cloud (Canada, 2007)

Julius Popp
bit-flow (Germany, 2006-07)

Jed Berk
ALAVs 2.0 (USA., 2006)

London Fieldworks
Hibernator: Prince of Petrified Forest (Great Britain, 2007)

Evelina Domnitch y Dmitry Gelfand
Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory (USA - Belarus, 2007)

Kelly Dobson
OMO (USA, 2007)

Chris Sugrue
Delicate Boundaries (USA, 2007)

INCENTIVES FOR IBERO-AMERICAN PRODUCTION
Alex Posada y Alejo Duque
Greenbots (Spain)

Francisco López
Sonic Alter Ego (Spain)

Hamilton Mestizo Reyes, Luis Enrique Martínez, Sofía Cordero, Marcela Ayala, Patricia Muethe y Jonatan Gómez
Electricium Vitum (Colombia)