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VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards

EMAF 1998 addressed the structures of a mediatised society shaped by the simultaneousness of different systems. In everyday life, too, we are surrounded by perception situations taking place in parallel, explained the American Pat O’Neill, to whom

EMAF 2001 offered an examination of the present, increasingly dominated by information and media technologies that varied between play and reflexion. During the festival both the virtually endless possibilities of new aesthetic styles of composition

Virtual actor or: how real is reality? The congress at EMAF 2002 explored films in which avatars (characters created on the computer) or "human" actors rather than real human beings act in virtual environments. This topic was reflected also in some

VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards

VIDA Art and Artificial Life Awards

VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards

VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards

The guiding theme of EMAF 2004 triggered numerous associations: transmitters, emitters, carriers or x-mitters – visualised by all kinds of dove species depicted on the festival’s posters, billboards and catalogues this year. In line with this

Under the motto "Document", the 18th EMAF highlighted various media artistic approaches to documentary forms. Playing with media structures, analysing the power of the media, reflecting one’s own media production and examining the conditions of