Encouraged by a group of visionary artists, the Telefonica Foundation in 1999 created 1.0 Life Award in order to encourage artistic creation based on techniques and concepts of artificial life. In these 12 years the winners have embodied a file of experiences, which has become an international benchmark.
From robotic seated in the collective imagination to software simulation, virtual environments, biotechnology ... Living has seen it all. The contemporary golems do not need spells. They manage with sensors, algorithms, cameras and various materials, including the human body. The creature is human, to co-star Sensitive Pleasure, a performance in a sound spectrum, the Italian who lives in Holland, Sonia Cillari, won top prize of life 13.0 (18,000 euros).
The action takes place in a dark bucket electrified, where the creature, a naked woman, who works as an antenna and controls both the eight-speaker sound like interface that carries electrical impulses Cillari. The artist is outside the cube, connected to her child through a series of electrodes on the arms and bust.
When the visitor enters the cube, their movements and interactions with the child affect the electromagnetic field, generating sounds and sending electric shocks up to 90 volts to the body of the artist, who is shaken by spasms under the astonished gaze of the public. "It's a strong physical experience," says the artist.
During the fair, Arco, the artist will perform a daily action. The second prize (14,000 euros) for plants has been nomadic, a Mexican biorobot Gilberto Esparza, who won an incentive to produce 9.0 Living with Urban Parasites. Nomadic plants is a self-sustaining ecosystem, formed by plants and microorganisms that live in the body of a machine, ready to find contaminated water through a system of sensors inspired by bats.
When found, remove the toxic agents with a bacteria, transforming them into energy to keep moving. "The robot moves to contaminated sites to regenerate damaged human nature," says Esparza. The third prize (8,000 euros) has been for Psworld Berlin-based New Zealander Julian Oliver, a "filosoftware" in the words of the artist.
Psworld is a modification of the ps utility, found on all UNIX operating systems. "It builds on the idea of linking all processes of a computer into visuals of the environment so that the operating system relies entirely on these," explains Oliver. Arco also display the Incentive Award for Production of Life 11.0: Nazca City, an imaginary city marked on the surface of the Peruvian desert by a small robot.
Designed by Peruvian artist Rodrigo Derteano plowing the land is a map, visible only from above, which is generated from real data and statistics of the 10 most populated cities in Latin America. 
From robotic seated in the collective imagination to software simulation, virtual environments, biotechnology ... Living has seen it all. The contemporary golems do not need spells. They manage with sensors, algorithms, cameras and various materials, including the human body. The creature is human, to co-star Sensitive Pleasure, a performance in a sound spectrum, the Italian who lives in Holland, Sonia Cillari, won top prize of life 13.0 (18,000 euros).
The action takes place in a dark bucket electrified, where the creature, a naked woman, who works as an antenna and controls both the eight-speaker sound like interface that carries electrical impulses Cillari. The artist is outside the cube, connected to her child through a series of electrodes on the arms and bust.
When the visitor enters the cube, their movements and interactions with the child affect the electromagnetic field, generating sounds and sending electric shocks up to 90 volts to the body of the artist, who is shaken by spasms under the astonished gaze of the public. "It's a strong physical experience," says the artist.
During the fair, Arco, the artist will perform a daily action. The second prize (14,000 euros) for plants has been nomadic, a Mexican biorobot Gilberto Esparza, who won an incentive to produce 9.0 Living with Urban Parasites. Nomadic plants is a self-sustaining ecosystem, formed by plants and microorganisms that live in the body of a machine, ready to find contaminated water through a system of sensors inspired by bats.
When found, remove the toxic agents with a bacteria, transforming them into energy to keep moving. "The robot moves to contaminated sites to regenerate damaged human nature," says Esparza. The third prize (8,000 euros) has been for Psworld Berlin-based New Zealander Julian Oliver, a "filosoftware" in the words of the artist.
Psworld is a modification of the ps utility, found on all UNIX operating systems. "It builds on the idea of linking all processes of a computer into visuals of the environment so that the operating system relies entirely on these," explains Oliver. Arco also display the Incentive Award for Production of Life 11.0: Nazca City, an imaginary city marked on the surface of the Peruvian desert by a small robot.
Designed by Peruvian artist Rodrigo Derteano plowing the land is a map, visible only from above, which is generated from real data and statistics of the 10 most populated cities in Latin America.
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