[microsound] Telefonica Foundation competition

[ian stewart <artsonics@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got this on the CEC list, and with some discussion here on genetic 
algorithms etc, I thought it may interest a few people. Apologies if this 
was posted before. best,
Ian

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LIFE 7.0 International Competition - Call for Participation

Announcing the sixth 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, wetware, embodied artificial intelligence,
avatars, evolving behaviours and virtual ecosystems.

An international jury -- Chris Csikszentmihalyi (US), Daniel Garcia
Andujar (Spain), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico/Canada), Jose-Carlos
Mariategui (Peru), Fiona Raby (UK) and Nell Tenhaaf (Canada)-- will
grant four cash awards totaling 20,000 Euros.

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

Deadline: Wednesday, November 3, 2004. Deadline extension of one week
likely (watch the website).

For further information, please visit http://www.vidalife.org
For questions concerning eligibility of entries: Nell Tenhaaf, Artistic
Director <tenhaaf@xxxxxxxx>

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