EVOMUSART 2012 - 1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

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Category EVOMUSART 2012

Deadline: November 30, 2011 | Date: April 11, 2012-April 13, 2012

Venue/Country: Malaga, Spain

Updated: 2011-09-25 16:07:03 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

evomusart 2012 is the tenth European event on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design, evomusart has became a evo* conference with independent proceedings. Thus, evomusart 2012 is the tenth European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design and the first conference on the field.

The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks.

The main goal of evomusart 2012 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

The event will be held from 11-13 April, 2012 in Malaga, Spain as part of the evostar event.

Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included in the evomusart proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Topics of interest

The papers should concern the use of biologically inspired computer techniques - e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, other artificial intelligence techniques. ? in the scope of the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and other artistic fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Generation

Biologically Inspired Design and Art ? Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.;

Biologically Inspired Sound and Music ? Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, etc.;

Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music;

Other related artificial intelligence or generative techniques ? in the fields of Computer Music, Computer Art;

Theory

Computational Aesthetics, Experimental Aesthetics; o Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty;

Representation techniques;

Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification;

Validation methodologies;

Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas;

New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically inspired computation;

Computer Aided Creativity and computational creativity

Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to promote the creativity of a human user;

New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle;

Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artifacts;

Collaborative distributed artificial art environments;

Automation

Techniques for automatic fitness assignment;

Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce novel objects;

Systems that resort to biologically inspired computation to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object;

Previous events

Previous evostar events here.

Important Dates

Submission: 30 November 2011

Conference: 11-13 April 2012

Additional information and submission details

Submit your manuscript, at most 12 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) no later than November 30, 2011 to site http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart12

The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper.

Programme committee

Adrian Carballal, University of A Coruna, Spain

Alain Lioret, Paris 8 University, France

Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia

Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain

Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Amy K. Hoover, University of Central Florida, USA

Andrew Gildfind, Google, Inc., Australia

Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong

Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA

Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain

Artemis Sanchez Moroni, Renato Archer Research Center, Brazil

Benjamin Schroeder, Ohio State University, USA

Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA

Brian Ross, Brock University, Canada

Carlos Grilo, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal

Christian Jacob , University of Calgary, Canada

Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK

Dan Ashlock, University of Guelph, Canada

Daniel Bisig , University of Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel Jones, Middlesex University, UK

Eduardo Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK

Eelco den Heijer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Erwin Driessens, Independent Artist, Netherlands

Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA

Gary Nelson, Oberlin College, USA

Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany

J. E. Rowe, University of Birmingham, UK

James McDermott, University of Limerick, Ireland

Jon Bird, University of Sussex, UK

Jon McCormack, college of Charleston, Australia

José Fornari, NICS/Unicamp, Brazil

Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain

Kenneth O. Stanley, University of Central Florida, USA

Luigi Pagliarini, University of Southern Denmark, Italy

Marcelo Freitas Caetano, IRCAM, France

Marcos Nadal, University of Illes Balears, Spain

Maria Verstappen, Independent Artist, Netherlands

Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA

Mitchell Whitelaw, University of Canberra, Australia

Nicolas Monmarché, University of Tours, France

Oliver Bown, Monash University, Australia

Palle Dahlstedt, Göteborg University, Sweden

Paul Brown, University of Sussex, UK

Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa , Portugal

Pedro Cruz, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Peter Bentley, University College London , UK

Peter Cariani , University of Binghamton, USA

Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA

Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Roger Malina, International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, USA

Scott Draves, Independent Artist, USA

Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK

Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia

Stephen Todd, IBM, UK

Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

Troy Innocent , Monash University, Australia

Vic Ciesielski, RMIT, Australia

Yang Li, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Conference chairs

Juan Romero

University of A Coruna, Spain

jj(at)udc.es

Penousal Machado

University of Coimbra, Portugal

machado(at)dei.uc.pt

Publication chair

Adrian Carballal

University of A Coruna, Spain

adrian.carballal(at)udc.es