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The VIDA International Art and Artificial Life Competition
Now in their eleventh year, the VIDA Awards 11.0 have included several new features. The first of these is the creation of the Vida Gallery, a virtual space on the web consisting of winning pieces from previous years. This is intended to become a place of reference for a wider audience. Furthermore, the value of the prizes has been increased on this occasion and now amounts to €80,000, divided between two categories, “Finished Works” and “Incentives for Latin American Production”. This makes VIDA one of the most sizable awards in this sector.
A total of 135 proposals from 26 countries were submitted last year - 92 in the Finished Work category and 43 in the Incentives for Production category. These testify to the drawing power of this contest, which is now considered a leading event all over the world. All the works presented were examined by a prestigious international jury and went on display in February 2009 in a major exhibit organized in the space provided by Matador Madrid, coinciding with ARCO 09.
The Award for Artistic Endeavour in New Media was announced at the gala event held on at the inauguration of this exhibit. The award, honoring work of artists who play a significant role in the application of ICT to creativity, was won by the American artist Laurie Anderson and carried a prize of €30,000 in cash, plus the sponsorship of an exhibit or financing of a site-specific event.
More info about VIDA Competition:
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/es/arteytecnologia/certamen_vida/en/index.htm
Fundación Telefónica supports new digital and electronic artists
Through the VIDA workshops, which began at the ninth staging of the contest, Fundación Telefónica has become the driving force for training new generations of artists, technophiles and inventors interested in the intersection of art, technology and cognitive sciences.
These workshops were offered for the first time in 2008 in Mexico Argentina, Chile and Peru with the participation of 62 students. They allows new talent and promising young people to find solutions to their artistic preocupations, the knowledge necessary to explore them and sufficient technological means to carry them out. Each workshop, debate and project, forges a wealth of artists who, thanks to support from Fundación Telefónica, will advance their careers and promote this type of art.
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