Life 4.0 Call for Participation - deadline extended

[anna balint]

PLEASE NOTE DEADLINE EXTENDED 
LIFE 4.0 International Competition - Call for Participation 

Third edition of the international competition on "art and artificial
life" sponsored by the Telefonica Foundation in Madrid. We are
looking for artworks employing techniques and themes such as digital
genetics, autonomous robotics, recursive chaotic algorithms,
knowbots, computer viruses, avatars, evolving behaviours or virtual
ecosystems. An international jury (Daniel Canogar, Machiko Kusahara, Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer, Arlindo Machado, Sally Jane Norman and Nell Tenhaaf)
will grant four cash awards totaling 20,000 US dollars. 

Previous winners  include Ken Rinaldo, Willy LeMaitre / Eric
Rosenzveig, Ken Feingold, Erwin Driessens / Maria Verstappen, Bill
Vorn / Louis Philippe Demers, Scott Draves, Simon Penny / Jamieson
Schulte, Asa Unander-Scharin, Troy Innocent, Marc Böhlen / Michael
Mateas, Doris Vila, Diane Ludin / Ricardo Domínguez, Gerard Boyer,
Jane Prophet / Gordon Selley / Mark Hurry, Hod Lipson / Jordan B.
Pollack, Institute of Applied Autonomy, Paul Brown, Eduardo Kac,
Christa Sommerer / Laurent Mignonneau, Roc Parés / Narcís Parés /
Perry Hoberman, Linda Wallace and Naoko Tosa. 

The new deadline for submission is Monday, November 12, 2001. 
For further information and the application form, please see
http://www.telefonica.es/fat/vida4
For questions concerning eligibility of entries: Nell Tenhaaf,
Artistic Director <tenhaaf at yorku.ca>