cfp Life 5.0 awards

LIFE 5.0 International Competition - Call for Participation

Announcing the fourth edition of the competition on "art and artificial life" sponsored by the Telefonica Foundation in Madrid. We are looking for outstanding electronic art projects employing techniques such as digital genetics, autonomous robotics, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, computer viruses, embodied artificial intelligence, avatars, evolving behaviours and virtual ecosystems.

An international jury –Daniel Canogar, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Machiko Kusahara, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sally Jane Norman and Nell Tenhaaf– will grant four cash awards totaling 20,000 Euros.

The new competition website at htp://www.vidalife.org has the guidelines, application form, and information on the previous award-winners, including texts, videos, images and links.

Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2002.
For further information, please visit http://www.vidalife.org
For questions concerning eligibility of entries: Nell Tenhaaf, Artistic Director