VIDA/LIFE is an international competition for art works that are premised on the strategies of Artificial Life research, its conceptual approaches as well as its methods of digital synthesis. The competition rewards art that reflects upon potential interactions between synthetic “ life” and organic life, employing techniques such as digital genetics, autonomous robotics, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, computer viruses, embodied artificial intelligence, avatars, virtual ecosystems, and interfaces between software, hardware and biomass.