The next Virtual Creatures Competition will be held at ALife 24 (Copenhagen). Are you up for the challenge? Join the competition and make the new virtual generation begin! Deadline: 10th of June 2024.
Big announcement: ALife 2022 and possibly all future ALife conferences will be decentralized.
Not only virtual, not fully traditional, it will have several hubs around the world operating simultaneously and the organisation will also be distributed.
#ALife2021
The results of the Virtual Creatures Competition are ready: Congratulations to Christian Heinemann for the Emerging Ecosystems - Alien Project!
The competition was tough because this year had double the submissions of previous years! Well done guys! 🤓
#ALIFE2021
conference on artificial life was a great event full of interesting talks. We are happy to announce that the majority of speakers agreed to open their talks to public.
📅 September 1: we are going to start with publishing of the YouTube videos one by one.
Stay tuned!
We will begin the
#ALife2020
Twitter Conference tomorrow August 12 to the 31! We will post 5 talks w/ videos & papers per day. Make sure to ask lots of questions to the speakers.
MIT Press Proceedings:
Public Video Playlist:
#ALIFE2021
Calls for contributions are now open!
⚡️Call for Workshops, Special Sessions & Tutorials (deadline: 31 Jan, 2021)
⚡️Call for Papers & Extended Abstracts (deadline: 07 Mar, 2021)
⚡️Call for art & vizualizations (deadline: 25 Apr, 2021)
Final decision of
#ALIFE2021
organizing committee - we switch from a hybrid format to a fully
#VIRTUAL
one.
Due to local situation and ordinances, it may or may not be possible to attend in person and all of the content will be available virtually only.
Stay safe everyone!
A sneak peek into the beginning stages of our ALife 2020 Minecraft world! Thanks to our awesome (actually beyond awesome) ALife 2020 Volunteers!!
#alife2020
📢 KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT
#ALIFE2023
🏆Excited to reveal our keynote speaker, Ted Chiang, a renowned science fiction novelist! Having won 4 Hugo, 4 Nebula, and 6 Locus awards, Ted's captivating fiction has garnered extensive praise and inclusion in The Best American Short Stories.
The ALIFE conferences are the major meetings of the artificial life research community since 1987. These scientific gatherings are supported by
@alifeofficial
.
#ALIFE2021
will be hybrid in-person event in
#Prague
🇨🇿 with a virtual online component.
➡️
There is still time to submit to the Virtual Creatures Competition! 🤓
Prize: $250, exclusive branded merchandise, and an exciting opportunity for a job interview with a stealth R&D entity focusing on artificial life and virtual creatures at scale.
Having FOMO from missing ALife 2020? Not to worry we will be hosting a public Twitter conference starting August 12. Follow us here or
#alife2020
to watch recordings of talks and ask questions to the speakers.
We are glad to announce that ALIFE conference 2022 will be held in Trento, 18-22 July. Given the unfolding COVID situation, the conference will likely be held virtually. For more infos check our website:
#ALIFE2022
ALife 2020 Keynote Speaker Announcement
#1
: Sara Walker
@Sara_Imari
. Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist who works on the origin of life and how to find life on other worlds. Learn More
#ALife2020
Hello, Artists, Roboticists, and Researchers with cool visualizations and cutting-edge art! You are invited to submit your work for consideration in the 2020 ALIFE conference art exhibition.
#alife2020
Four distinguished judges have been confirmed for the Virtual Creatures Competition this year. Do you want them to know your work? Get ready to submit!🤓
The Prague
#ALIFE2021
organisers passed the baton of this
@ALifeConf
Twitter account to the Trento
#ALIFE2022
organisers. More details about the next conference on artificial life are coming soon here, stay tuned!
#ALIFE2023
is hosting workshops!
“Alife for and from video games” focuses on insights that ALIFE and video games give to each.
Check the link for details!
For all of you waiting with bated breath! ALife 2020 Keynote Speaker Announcement
#2
: Melanie Mitchell
@MelMitchell1
Who is a living legend in Complex Systems & has a brand new book out, "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans."
#Alife2020
Deadline for papers and extended abstracts submissions is approaching! 07 March - you still have two weeks!
#ALIFE2021
- a hybrid conference on artificial life (a combination of a "live" in-person event in Prague with a "virtual" online component)
#RUR
(Rossum's Universal Robots)
🟨 science fiction play by the Czech writer
#Karel
Čapek
🟨 premiered on 25 Jan 1921 in
#Prague
🟨 introduced the word
#robot
to the world
👉Theme of
#ALIFE2021
conference in Prague:
"
#Robots
: The century past and the century ahead"
💯
#Robot100
We have decided to extend the submission deadline to accommodate those who would like to contribute to the conference proceedings but could not previously attend physically or would've missed the deadline due to COVID19 The new deadline is May 1
#alife2020
Due to many requests, the Scientific Program Committee is delighted to announce the DEADLINE EXTENSION of the call for papers and extended abstracts for the virtual
#ALIFE2021
conference to MARCH 14.
Dear all, due to understandable requests in recent days, we choose to make one final extension of the submission deadline to March 14th at 13:00 CET.
For the program committee: All the deadlines will be moved accordingly and communicated as soon as possible.
#ALIFE2022
All
#ALife2020
tweets Aug 12-31 are a part of the ALife 2020 Twitter conference. To view a full list of public videos from the live conference you can visit our YouTube Channel
ALife 2020 Keynote Speaker Announcement
#3
: Michael Levin,
@drmichaellevin
studies patterning & computation in biological systems. Including how cells communicate to create complex organisms in the dynamical system that is the developing embryo.
#ALife2020
Lana Sinapayen's piece (
@sina_lana
) in The Gradient is a must read for those interested in Life, Intelligence and everything else. It's an Introduction to Artificial Life for People who Like AI.
#ALife2020
We are absolutely blown away with the quality of this year's submissions. & We had to make some tough decisions. Notices were sent to all accepted contributed presenters for the ALife main conference. Congratulations to our 2020 presenters!
#alife2020
The moment has finally arrived: Registration is now open for ALife 2020! Join us in Montréal for a funfilled week of Artificial Life, art, science, robots, whimsy, & heated discussions about the future of AI & the nature of life. Register now at
#ALife2020
Very Exciting ALife Speaker Announcement! Carl Zimmer
@carlzimmer
(yes the Carl Zimmer!) will be presenting a keynote talk at the ALife 2020 Symbiosis in Artificial Life Workshop
@SALWorkshop
#alife2020
The International Conference on Artificial Life - ALIFE 2023 - is
looking for proposals for
- papers,
- extended abstracts,
- workshops and
- tutorials.
Deadline for workshop & tutorial submissions is 31st January.
Hope to see you in Sapporo!
The ALIFE 2023 conference, to be held on July 24-28th in Japan, is looking for proposals for special sessions.
If you are interested in organizing a session, please visit the following page!
We want to genuinely thank all of you for your wonderful submissions to the ALife 2020 conference! We are so excited with the quality and can't wait to see your presentations and read your papers!
#ALIFE2020
The
#ALIFE2021
conference program is available! We did our best to take into account all requirements of our speakers and the organisers of workshops, tutorials and spec. sessions. Please contact us if any change/correction is needed.
👉
📣 Excited to announce one of our amazing Keynote Speakers for
#ALIFE2023
: David Wolpert! A distinguished Professor at Santa Fe Institute
@sfiscience
, he's been making waves across numerous fields. Get ready to be inspired!
#DavidWolpert
Thank you everyone, that's a wrap on our
#ALIFE2020
Twitter Conference! Check out our conference proceedings and public playlist for more awesome artificial life content.
YouTube Playlists:
MIT Press Proceedings:
At
#ALIFE2023
, we will be hosting a special public talk “Life and Consciousness, Artificial and Natural” by Ted Chiang (Science fiction writer) x Anil Seth (Neuroscientist) on July 28, 2023!
This event will take place in Sapporo, Japan and online viewing is also available.
ALife Keynote Speaker Announcement
#5
: Lee Cronin
@leecronin
works to make artificial life, find aliens, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals & construct chemical computers. Learn More at
#ALife2020
50 Years with
#Autopoiesis
In memory of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela
An event hosted by
#ALIFE2021
Organized by Pasquale Stano, Luisa Damiano,
@alltbl
and
@okw
We offer a limited number of
#ALIFE2021
Student Scholarships in the form of free conference tickets. Interested students should fill the application form - deadline April 30, 2021.
👉
@ISALstudents
@alifeofficial
Evolutionary Illusion Generator by
@sina_lana
Use CPPN + NEAT + Predictive Coding Network to generate optical illusions that (sometimes) can fool humans
📢We're thrilled to announce our keynote speaker for
#ALIFE2023
, Anil Seth! With over 20 years’ experience in the field of consciousness research, he is a distinguished neuroscientist and author. He's a Prof. of Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex.
#ALIFE2023
is hosting workshops!
“The Distributed Ghost:
Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and Their Applications to Intelligence” focuses on bridging the gap between the ALife community and AI community.
Check the link for details!
Call for artists, roboticists, and researchers with cool visualizations and cutting-edge art:
Submit your work related to artificial life and/or robots to the virtual
#ALIFE2021
conference art exhibition.
Deadline: April 25, 2021
Jun Tani will be speaking at the
#ALIFE2023
Keynote!
His research covers the fields of cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, phenomenology, complex adaptive systems, and robotics.
See the link for more info!
DEADLINE EXTENDED:
The deadline for the submission of Papers and Extended Abstracts has been extended!
The new deadline is the 7th of March at 13:00 CET.
#ALIFE2022
Another deadline is coming up! Papers and Abstracts can be submitted until the 1st of March!
Go to in order to submit your Paper or Abstract!
#ALIFE2022
Don't miss the
@alifeofficial
ISAL summer school at
#ALIFE2021
today! It is open to all! If you are not attending the conference but would like to attend the summer school, contact
@emilyldolson
#ALIFE2023
Special Public Talk by Ted Chiang x Anil Seth starts today at 3:50 p.m. (28/Jul/2023 06:50 UTC+0000)!
Non-conference attendees can also watch online!
Check the link for details!
At
#ALIFE2023
, we will be hosting a special public talk “Life and Consciousness, Artificial and Natural” by Ted Chiang (Science fiction writer) x Anil Seth (Neuroscientist) on July 28, 2023!
This event will take place in Sapporo, Japan and online viewing is also available.
I hope everyone enjoyed
#ALIFE2023
conference. We are happy to announce that Best Paper Award, Best Student Paper Award, and Best Poster Award are now on the conference website.
ALIFE 2020 will be awarding 50 free conference registrations for students! Priority will go to students who are new to our community or have an accepted paper (deadline for abstracts is in 10 days!). Deadline to apply is May 1
#alife2020
The
#ALIFE2021
conference logo was created (and now also updated) by a young talented Czech artist Tereza Tomáštíková. She focuses mainly on acrylic paintings, which are inspired by her experience with bipolar affective disorder.
Follow her Instagram
ALife Keynote Speaker Announcement
#4
: Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio. Her work focuses on soft robotics and stretchable electronics (so cool!) Learn More at
#ALife2020
The most difficult task for the
#ALIFE2021
Program Committee is to make the final decision what to accept and what to reject. Dear authors, please stay patient! We are going to send the decision letters as we promised on April 25th (11 pm HST).
Tomorrow we are going to start with the
#ALIFE2021
echoes. The links to YouTube talks will be published one by one, randomly, typically 3-4 per day. Please use the comments in YouTube for the discussion related to the appropriate talk.
After serious discussions with the ISAL board, it was decided to move all ALife 2020 activities to virtual environments; for the physical and financial health of our community. We will be posting many more details shortly so stay tuned. (2/2)
#alife2020
ALife will be giving student awards (reg waivers & financial assistance) prioritized for those new to our community, have an accepted paper, or traveling from afar. Info on how to apply will be announced shortly. Stay tuned! Submission deadline is March 1!
Just to highlight a few of the fun social events we have planned for ALife. You can look forward to a virtual pubcrawl, an ALife Minecraft meetup, VR chat, virtual karaoke, a Zoom Zumba class, and slack chat roulette (serendipitous collisions)!
#Alife2020
Call for
#ALIFE2021
papers and extended abstracts is open until March 7.
We will have 7 special sessions! If your work is related to them, please indicate it in the EasyChair system when submitting your contribution.
📢 KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT ALIFE2023
We're thrilled to announce our keynote speaker for
#ALIFE2023
, Yuji Ikegaya! With a PhD from the University of Tokyo (
@UTokyo_News_en
), he's an expert in neurophysiology, brain health, and neuronal plasticity.
#ALIFE2021
#Conference
on Artificial Life
👉
🟡 9 keynote speakers
🟡 5 special sessions
🟡 11 satellite workshops
🟡 5 tutorials
🟡 student essay competition
🟡 virtual art exhibition
🟡 social program
🟨 early bird registration until 20 May, 2021