Re: Extropic Arts: Call for art submissions for Int'l Competition

Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:23:27 -0000

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From: Natasha Vita-More <natasha@natasha.cc> To: extropians@extropy.org <extropians@extropy.org> Date: 10 December 1998 16:19
Subject: RE: Extropic Arts: Call for art submissions for Int'l 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.

Interestingly todays UK Guardian has an article on a genetic breeding system designed to produce programs that produce a light show for Disco's,Raves,Clubs, etc. You breed your favoured algorithms together until you find one that suits what you do. Apparently they can be bred to listen to certain parts of the music and to vary as much or as little as you like.

Samael