Fundación Telefónica presents in ARCOMadrid 2012 the winning works of the VIDA 13.2 Awards, the Art & Artificial Life International Contest
Dates: February 16 - 19, 2012
Venue: Hall 10, stand 10G30 Juan Carlos I Fairground
This awards, from its inception over a decade ago, has become one of the most prestigious awards in the field of media art, reflecting the growing interest of artists for the increasingly diffuse frontier between the notions of life and artificial life.
In this occasion, the first prize was awarded to Naked on Pluto, by Marloes de Valk, Aymeric Mansoux, and Dave Griffiths, all from the Netherlands, an online game that mocks the deceitfully invasive nature of most “social software” platforms. Ocular Revision, the Second Prize, by Paul Vanouse, from the US, is the third one in a series of Biological/Genomic works that use DNA and a gel-based electrophoresis system as medium and subject. With this live installation, Vanouse addresses the idea of a “genetic mapping” and reflects on the ever changing focus/object in “life” studies within scientific disciplines. Protei by César Harada, from France, took the Third Prize. Protei is a self-governing unmanned wind-powered sail-robot, which drags a long petrol-sucking boom, using the power of nature to solve a problem caused by man.
