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

1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design
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,...) 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