One of the main characteristics of Artificial Life systems is their capacity to generate emerging behaviour that evolves and adapts to changes in the environment. VIDA Competition rewards works of art with this evolutionary behaviour. It also supports projects that relate technology with biology and that research the synthetic nature of modern life.
If you have any questions about whether your project adapts to this description, you may view the winning projects from previous editions on the VIDA website www.telefonica.es/vida or write to vida@telefonica.es.
Interactivity or creating an art work using electronic media does not automatically make a piece suitable for the VIDA competition, although the large majority of winning projects have these characteristics. Selected projects usually have algorithms that allow the piece to evolve, react to its environment and seem to have a life of their own. The VIDA competition is not interested in projects created using paint, digital photography, digital video or any other format that does not respond to its environment, does not demonstrate behaviour that changes over time or does not reflect on the social side of A-life.
If you have any questions about whether your project adapts to this description, you may view the winning projects from previous editions on the VIDA website www.telefonica.es/vida or write to vida@telefonica.es.
VIDA is an art award, not a science competition. Only works of art that use or research Alife and its related disciplines will be rewarded. Winning pieces usually have technological characteristics that have required significant scientific research, but whose final aim is artistic.
The works of art entered in VIDA must not be more than two years old, i.e., they must have been completed by October 2006. This ensures that the competition keeps up-to-date with the latest technological changes in the Alife discipline.
Only one project may be submitted per person or team per year.
Yes, a piece can be entered in each category, provided that the “existing piece” is no more than two years old and the “Artistic Production Incentives” project has not yet been created. Only artists from Spain, Portugal or any Latin American country may apply to the “Artistic Production Incentives”.