Hard | soft | wet : artificial LIFE - Symposium
presented by dLux media artsfutureScreen 00 is the third in an annual series of dLuxevents established in Sydney, Australia to explore the cross-influences of new media practices, cultural theory and recent developments in science and technology.
What are the far-reaching implications of the narrative of Artificial Life as an alternate evolutionary pathway for life on earth?
Is the age of carbon- based life drawing to a close?
Are we about to liberate GOD?
Symposium | online performances | new media exhibitions Presented in association with Powerhouse Museum.
dLux media|arts has drawn together key inter/national figures in the evolutionary world of artificial life. The virtual daddy of Alife Chris Langton (US) pioneer of Alife and founder of the "Tierra" system Tom Ray (US), internationally renowned media artist, researcher and co-artistic director at the ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Lab in Kyoto, Japan, Christa Sommerer (JAP) will concentrate the symposium in Sydney in late October. Along with Dr. Cynthia Brezeal (US), a postdoctoral research fellow in the AI Lab at MIT and Steve Kurtz (US), artist, writer of the Critical Writi ng Ensemble concluding the keynotes. Australians at the forefront of this field include Dr Lesley Rogers, Jon McCormack - Professor Alex Zelinsky - Claude Samut (who recently led his team to win the Sony Robo Cup) Mitchell Whitelaw art official and media authority