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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:34:33 +0100 To: syndicate@aec.at From: Andreas Broeckmann Subject: Syndicate: LIFE 2.0 International Competition Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 12:02:34 -0500 (EST) From: Petronella Tenhaaf Subject: LIFE 2.0 International Competition LIFE 2.0 International Competition This is a call for submission of art works to an international competition on "art and artificial life." We are looking for works in electronic and digital media that cross over with the field of a-life research. Artists whose work uses digital synthesis techniques and whose conceptual concerns are related to synthetic life and artificial evolution, are invited to submit their pieces. The work may employ techniques such as digital genetics, autonomous robotics, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, computer viruses, avatars or virtual ecosystems. An international jury (Jose Luis Brea, Manuel DeLanda, Joe Faith, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sally Jane Norman and chair Nell Tenhaaf) will grant three cash awards, with a first prize of US $5,000 (2nd Prize:$3,500 - 3rd Prize:$1,500), plus seven honorary mentions to the most innovative electronic art projects related to a-life. Furthermore, works that are awarded a monetary prize or selected for an honorary mention will be included in a "Best of LIFE 2.0" video which will be aired on specialty television programs and circulated at festivals worldwide. Assessment will be based on video documentation submitted along with an application form. The deadline for submission is Friday, January 15, 1999. The Life 2.0 International Competition is sponsored by the Fundacion Arte y Tecnologia in Madrid, Spain. For further submission information and the application form, please see: http://www.telefonica.es/fat/vida.html For questions concerning eligibility of entries: Nell Tenhaaf, Artistic Director mailto://tenhaaf@yorku.ca All other inquiries: Susie Ramsay mailto://fat@telefonica.es

Digital genetics?? Well, hey! I'll just submit myself. That ought to give them a mutated genetic kick!

In the ar$e, that is!

That's it Riette, give them a jolt they'll never forget.

Put it to 'em ree reee.

ha-ha! I just hope it doesn't backfire...

Backfire? What an interesting concept. How could it backfire, Riette?

If someone were to stick a potato up my ar$e, and thus sabbotage me the night before.

O K, Riette, I missed something. Just how would the potato stop you?

Well, I was going to fart in their faces, you see - to show off my genetic make-up, you know. But with a potato in my ar$e, it would come out as a burp.

lol! (btw riette, somewhere you asked me if i had been painting, no and haven't been writing either- sad, i know)

Hi, girl!!! Have you been too busy for it?

Riette, we used to stuff a potato in the exhaust of the school bus when I was a kid. Pressure builds up and shoots the potato like a cannon. I thought you'd want to know.

riette: have been way to busy, even on the days off! whew....

Well, good, Wolfie! Just don't let the birds fart on your canvasses while you're not using them! Tim, we used to do that too! Hilarious! Didn't you just love it???

Yes, Riette, I did love it. I meant it in the context of your effort being sabotaged.

!!!!!!!!! Wash your mouth with soap, young man!

Riette, I was merely suggesting that you could vent the other way also.

Oh! Well, that's alright then!

Riette, what did you think that I meant?

I am not telling! Really, Tim, this time you can do what you like, I'm not telling you!

or anyone else apparently...