Sixth European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

EvoMUSART detailed programme.

The use of biological 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; design.

EvoMUSART 2008 is the sixth workshop of the EvoNET working group on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of EvoMUSART 2008 is to bring together researchers who are using biological inspired techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and included in the EvoWorkshops proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Topics of Interest

• Generation
  • Biological Inspired Art - Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, etc.;
  • Biological Inspired Music - Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, etc.;
  • Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music;
  • Other related generative techniques;
• Theory
  • Computational Aesthetics, 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 biological inspired computation;
• Computer Aided Creativity
  • Systems in which biological 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 biological inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artifacts;
  • Collaborative distributed artificial art environments;
• Automation
  • Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with biological inspired techniques to produce novel objects;
  • Techniques for automatic fitness assignment;
  • Systems that resort to biological inspired computation to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object;

EvoMUSART chairs

Juan Romero - jj AT udc.es
Jon McCormack - Jon.McCormack AT infotech.monash.edu.au

EvoMUSART Programme Committee

Alain Lioret, Paris 8 University, France
Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia
Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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
Bill Manaris,College of Charleston, USA
Brian J. Ross,Brock University, Canada
Carla Farsi,University of Colorado, USA
Christa Sommerer,IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Japan
Christian Jacob ,University of Calgary, Canada
Colin Johnson,University of Kent, UK
David Hart,Independent Artist, USA
Eduardo R. Miranda,University of Plymouth, UK
Eleonora Bilotta ,University of Calabria, Italy
Gary Greenfield,University of Richmond, USA
Gary Nelson,Oberlin College, USA
Gerhard Widmer,Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Hans Dehlinger,Independent Artist, Germany
James McDermott,University of Limerick, Ireland
John Collomosse,University of Bath, UK
Jon Bird,University of Sussex,UK
Jonatas Manzolli,UNICAMP, Brasil
Jorge Tavares,University of Coimbra, Portugal
Luigi Pagliarini,Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting, Italy & University of Southern Denmark
Margaret Boden,University of Sussex, UK
Maria Verstappen,Independent Artist,Netherlands
Matthew Lewis,Ohio State University, USA
Mauro Annunziato,Plancton Art Studio, Italy
Nell Tenhaaf,York University, Canada
Nicolas Monmarché,University of Tours, France
Pablo Gervás,Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Paul Brown,University of Sussex, UK
Paulo Urbano,Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Penousal Machado,University of Coimbra, Portugal
Peter Bentley,University College London, UK
Philip Galanter,Independent Artist, USA
Rafael Ramirez,Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Rodney Waschka II,North Carolina State University, USA
Ruli Manurung,University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Scott Draves, Independent Artist, USA
Simon Colton, Imperial College,UK
Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Stephen Todd, IBM, UK
Steve DiPaola,Simon Fraser University,Canada
Tim Blackwell,Goldsmiths College, University of London,UK
William Latham,Art Games Ltd,UK

EvoWorkshops coordinator

Mario Giacobini, University of Torino, Italy. - Mario.Giacobini(at)unito.it

Local Organising Committee

Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy - evostar(at)na.icar.cnr.it
Antonio Della Cioppa, University of Salerno, Italy
Ernesto Tarantino, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Giuseppe Trautteur, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Evo* Coordinator and Administrative Contact

Jennifer Willies, School of Computing, Napier University, Scotland, UK. - j.willies(at)napier.ac.uk

Evo* Publicity Chair

Anna I Esparcia, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica, Spain. - aesparcia(at)iti.upv.es