Sniff is the finalist for the FILE PRIX LUX.  The awards will be announced July 26th, during the FILE festival, and meanwhile the public can vote for their favorite piece at www.fileprixlux.org.

FILE Electronic Language International Festival launches with the FILE PRIX LUX prize, the POPULAR VOTE, in which the public may choose their favorite artwork among the three categories of the prize (Interactive Art, Electronic Sonority and Digital Language).

The most voted artwork among the nominees will win an Honor Award in the category the work is enrolled. If the most voted artwork was also chosen as a nominee for the award by the specialized judge, its rating shall be maintained and it will receive the title “Public’s Choice”.

The awarding of the prize winners of FILE PRIX LUX will happen on July 26th, 2010 at Teatro do SESI – São Paulo with the opening to guests of the FILE 2010 exhibition.

Click here to see the nominees to the FILE PRIX LUX prize and vote for your favorite artwork.

Sniff will be up in London for just a few days from May 7th to May 11th 2010. Address:
Dray Walk Gallery
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL

And a little preview:

“Sniff” is back in Brooklyn!
Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery will be hosting the installation during April.

Curators Leah Stuhltrager and Lynn del Sol

Run Dates: April 2nd – April 23rd, 2010
Reception: Saturday, May 1st, 2010 -6-10pm
Location:{CTS}creativethriftshop@Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery
Directions: 38 Marcy St. Brooklyn, NY.11211
Hours: Please note that this is a night installation starting at 8pm

Just learned that Sniff received a special mention from this years Vida Awards.

VIDA 12.0 rewards works of art developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. It is looking for works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own. VIDA 12.0 is searching projects that relate technology with biology and that research synthetic characteristics of modern life.
In previous editions, prizes have been awarded to artistic projects created with robots, avatars, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automata, computer viruses, virtual ecologies that evolve with user interaction, interactive architectures, augmented reality pieces and works that explore the social aspects of A-life.

Sniff will be a part of the Emergence exhibition and DAC09, Digital Arts and Culture conference at the Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, CA

Emergence: Art and Artificial Life — Dec 12

Time: 6:30 – 9:00pm

Location: Beall Center for Art + Technology

Utilising Artificial Intelligence and genetic programming techniques, custom electronics, robotic and sculptural aspects, the featured works by international artists represent the current state of work in the interdisciplinary field of Artificial Life Art.

Since the early 1990’s, Artificial Life theory and technology has been a constant interest in the media art community. Works concerned with these ideas are common in the media art landscape, yet they are seldom identified as such. The VIDA prize for artificial life art, sponsored by Telefonica for the last decade, is a rare exception. The three artists in Emergence have been represented in VIDA, two of the works in Emergence were prizewinners. Each of these works offers an insight into a different dimension if Artificial Life Art.

• Propagaciones by Leo Nuñez (Argentina) is a sculptural realisation of one of the icons of artificial life, the cellular automaton. In Propagaciones, separate electro-mechanical sculptural ‘cells’ stimulate each other into mutual action, creating propagating patterns across the field.
• The Universal Whistling Machine, by Marc Böhlen and J.T. Rinker deploys AI techniques to present an amusing take on machine intelligence. Whistle to it and it will whistle back a tune in response, composed on the spot. It has been known to have extended exchanges with a canary.
• Performative Ecologies, by Ruairi Glynn consists of a trio of ‘dancing fools’ – devices that seek to demonstrate the most pleasing dance they can devise. The devices use gaze tracking with infra-red camera to determine how attenttive their audience is while performing each dance. In downtime, they breed new dances using genetic algorithms on dances determine to be most attractive, producing new dances to be tried out on the audience and shared with their fellows.
• Sniff, by Karolina Sobeck and Jim George is a virtual puppy which interacts with viewers via machine vision. Sniff has sophisticated animation (using Unity game engine) and persuasive behavior modelling, identifying both ‘primary’ and ’secondary’ interactants.”

http://dac09.uci.edu/events.php#emergence

http://www.beallcenter.uci.edu/calendar/0910.php

The show opens December 12th and is up until June 2010.

Sniff will be hosted by Gill Holland in Louisville for entire October starting at the Idea Festival, Sept 26th.

804 East Market Street

Come and play : )

Sniff will be hosted by Not An Alternative at their The Change You Want To See gallery space during Conflux Festival.  Stop by September 17-20th after dark and play with the puppy!

84 Havenmeyer Street, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY 1121

subway:  -L- to Bedford,-J- to Marcy, or -G- to Metropolitan.