To celebrate 15 years of the Awards, the Espacio Fundación Telefónica will launch an exposition and a series of workshops and activities for all types of audiences: – Exposition of VIDA Awards 15.0 The Espacio Fundación Telefónica will show the winning pieces from the International VIDA Contest 15.0.from 12 March to 20 April. Up until...
Leer másArtificial Life – VIDA
Creating artificial life is one of the most ancient aspirations of our civilisation. In 1987 when Christopher Langton raised the possibility that a machine could drive a unique living process, the science of artificial life was born. Within a mere decade, VIDA was inaugurated as a competition whose mission was and is to promote art that explores artificial...
Leer másArt and Technology Program, “VIDA 2013” at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico
Telefónica Foundation are pleased to present the first session of Art and Technology Program, “VIDA 2013” at Laboratorio Arte Alameda. The educational and outreach program is intended to show along with the winning artists and experts in the field of the forms that take part in both art and artificial life. It seeks after promotion and contact with the...
Leer másIn Conversation with the VIDA 15.0 Jury: Seiko Mikami
Seiko Mikami is an artist who focuses on interactive media art installations incorporating human perception. Professor of Media Art Lab at Tama Art University, she has participated in several research projects and has shown her work extensively around the world, in contemporary art and new media festivals and exhibitions in museums and art centers. As an...
Leer másVIDA 15.0: Interview with Mónica Bello
This year is the 15th edition of a competition that was initially dubbed VIDA 2.0, in reference to a “second form of life”, meaning artificial life. Fifteen years on, is the debate on artificial life still ongoing? What do the works which have taken part in this contest tell us? Over the intervening years we have seen the artists apply the principles of...
Leer másMission Eternity Stowaway Workshop
On 3th, 4th and 5th April, from 4 pm to 8 pm, Espacio Fundación Telefónica will be hosting the VIDA Mission Eternity Stowaway Workshop, run by the Swiss digital artist group Etoy.Corporation. The group are pioneers in Internet art and creators of the Mission Eternity Sarcophagus project, which received first prize at edition 10.0 for a mobile tomb...
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