After 16 years, the competition will come to an end. New exhibitions will showcase the latest trends in art and new media The VIDA International Art and Artificial Life Competition is entering a new era. The international artistic creation competition organised by Fundación Telefónica has begun a process which will see the end of the competition –...
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Roger F. Malina is an astronomer and editor. He is a Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology at the University of Texas, Dallas where he is developing Art-Science R and D and Experimental publishing research. Former Director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence. His specialty is in space instrumentation; he was the Principal...
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Thiago Hersan and Radamés Ajna are the recipients of the first Telefónica I+D Incentive, awarded last year at VIDA 15.0 for their project MEMEMEME, an installation in which four smartphones mounted on robotic arms can recognize each other using computer vision and communicate as people would do in a face to face conversation. In addition to...
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Yunchul Kim is a Korean composer and artist based in Berlin, whose work focuses on the artistic potential of fluid dynamics. He creates installations using ferrofluids that explore the properties of matter and evoke natural processes, whether on a cosmic level or inside an imaginary body. Kim works at the University of Applied Arts in...
Leer másOn art and subjective science: interview with Agnes-Meyer Brandis
Agnes Meyer-Brandis has developed her artistic research in the boundary between fiction and science, exploring both the ground beneath our feet and the sky above us. She has been awarded the Second Prize in VIDA 15.0 for Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility, an ongoing project inspired by the story “Man in the Moone” by Francis Goodwin....
Leer másArtificial life, autonomous agents and hybrid spaces
Artificial life today brings us closer to understanding living things. In the last two decades we have seen the way in which technologies of artificial life have been gradually incorporated into contemporary habits. However, this process has not been clearly reflected in our society. Coexistence with artificial systems, whose character is expressed by...
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