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Subject:

Life 7.0 Jury Statement

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Beryl Graham <[log in to unmask]>

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Beryl Graham <[log in to unmask]>

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Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:01:08 +0000

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From: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: December 2, 2004 1:20:04 PM EST
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Subject: Life 7.0 Jury Statement


Life 7.0, 2004
http://www.vidalife.org

The jury for the Life 7.0 competition in Madrid – Chris 
Csikszentmihalyi (USA), Daniel García Andújar (Spain), Rafael 
Lozano-Hemmer (MEX/CAN), José Carlos Mariátegui (Peru), Fiona Raby (UK) 
and Nell Tenhaaf (CAN) – reviewed 60 artworks that utilise artificial 
life concepts and techniques. These pieces were pre-selected from a 
group of 82 submissions received from 24 countries. The Telefonica 
Foundation in Spain will give out the following awards:


SHARED FIRST PRIZE (4,000 Euros each)

“Spore 1.1”
S.W.A.M.P. (Douglas Easterly)
USA

Spore 1.1 makes visible, in an ironic manner, the artificiality of our 
immediate reality by relating the business market to the ecosystem. The 
artist purchased a plant at the Home Depot superstore and inserted it 
in a mechanized installation that is connected to the Internet via a 
wireless connection and programmed with open source software. The 
installation periodically checks the value of Home Depot’s stock over 
the internet, activating a watering system: if share values are up the 
plant gets watered. The underlined paradox is that Home Depot 
guarantees the well being of the plant for one year and, if the plant 
dies due to either falling or rising share values it has to be replaced 
by the multinational, —a contract relating life and death.

“Universal Whistling Machine”
Marc Böhlen / JT Rinker
Canada

For hundreds of years, technologists have tried to design machines that 
can speak and understand human language  -- a problem they have yet to 
fully solve.  One 17th century automaton, Baron von Kempler’s 
artificial chess-playing Turk, famously defeated several of the best 
players in Europe.  All it could say was “check.”  Today, if one calls 
a typical US corporation to get information or to settle a bill, it’s 
almost impossible to reach a human being; instead, you get a synthetic, 
automated teller, usually with a chipper woman’s voice.  Yet these 
tellers can only understand a few words, because language, like most 
aspects of human culture, is difficult to compute, complex and florid.  
Marc Böhlen and J.T. Rinker are artists whose most recent effort to 
develop a communication system may be one that computers can finally 
understand: The Universal Whistling Machine, a tone-based based 
interpreter of whistles.  Using advanced signal-processing computation 
-- similar to the chips in mobile phones -- their system can extract 
whistles from other sounds, and can exchange passages with humans, each 
other, and even animals. Over time, it builds a database of every 
whistle it’s ever heard, increasing its vocabulary and range.  What 
looks at first like a simple process becomes ever more interesting, a 
technical mocking bird that’s either mimicking or earnestly trying to 
communicate. This project also received the Public award as it was the 
most voted during the award presentation in Madrid.


[...]

ANNOUNCEMENTS

For next year's edition of the competition, the Telefonica Foundation 
has doubled the prize money: 20.000 euros will be given awarded to 
completed international projects and 20.000 euros for the production of 
new projects by artists from Latin America and Spain.

Any non-profit, educational, art or media centers that would like to 
receive the reference DVD "The best of Life 7.0", please contact  
Alicia Carabias <[log in to unmask]>




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Beryl Graham, Senior Research Fellow, New Media Art
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
Tel: +44 191 515 2896    [log in to unmask]

CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
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