LIFE 6.0 International Competition

LIFE 6.0 International Competition, sponsored by the Telefonica Foundation in Madrid, focuses on “art and artificial life.” They are looking for electronic art projects employing techniques such as digital genetics, autonomous robotics, computer viruses, artificial intelligence, avatars, evolving behaviors, and more. The deadline for submission is October 31, 2003.

New Reviews

New reviews at RCCS include: William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition reviewed by Tama Leaver, Frank Schaap’s The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality reviewed by Stephanie Bennett, and Siva Vaidhyanathan’s Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity reviewed by Laura Kertz.

Paris Review

The new issue of The Paris Review contains interviews with Amy Hempel and Jonathan Lethem; an oral biography of Gabriel García Márquez; stories by Michael Chabon, E.J. Levy, James Salter, and Peter Orner; and poetry by Carol Vanderveer Hamilton, Daniel Lewis, Gretchen Primack, Michele Reese, and Jamie Ross.

TIR Web

The Iowa Review Web features the work of Brian Kim Stefans and an interview with Stefans by Giselle Beiguelman; Tal Halpern’s Digital Nature: the Case Collection version 2.0 and an interview with Tal Halpern by Patrick F. Walter; new work by Paul A. Toth and Bob Thurber; writings by Nick Moudry, Ilan Stavans, and Lance Olsen; and Gábor Szantó’s “Letters to King Laios from Oedipus.”