evoMUSART 2013 - 2nd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

2nd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design, EvoMUSART has become an EvoStar conference with independent proceedings. Thus, EvoMUSART 2013 is the eleventh European Event and the second International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design.

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 2013 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 3-5 April, 2013 in Vienna, Austria as part of the EvoStar event.

Submissions will be rigorously reviewed for scientific and artistic merit. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters 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. The acceptance rate at evomusart 2012 was 34.9% for papers accepted for oral presentation, or 46.5% for oral and poster presentation combined.

Topics of interest

Submissions 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 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, etc.
Theory
Computational Aesthetics, Experimental Aesthetics; Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty.
Representation techniques.
Robotic-Based Evolutionary Art and Music.
Other related artificial intelligence or generative techniques in the fields of Computer Music, Computer Art, etc.
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.
Important Dates

Submission: 1 November 2012
Conference: 3-5 April 2013

Additional information and submission details

Submit your manuscript, at most 12 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format no later than November 1, 2012 to site http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart12

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

EvoMUSART programme chairs

Penousal Machado
University of Coimbra, Portugal
machado(at)dei.uc.pt
James McDermott
University College Dublin, Ireland
jamesmichaelmcdermott(at)gmail.com
EvoMUSART publication chair:

Adrian Carballal
University of A Coruna, Spain
adrian.carballal(at)udc.es
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
Arne Eigenfeldt, Simon Fraser University, Canada
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
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
Dan Ashlock, University of Guelph, Canada
Dan Costelloe, Independent Researcher (Solace One Ltd), Ireland
Daniel Jones, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Douglas Repetto, Columbia University, USA
Eduardo Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK
Eelco den Heijer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eleonora Bilotta , University of Calabria, Italy
Erik Hemberg, University College Dublin, Ireland
Francois Pachet, Sony CSL Paris, France
Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA
Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany
J. E. Rowe, University of Birmingham, UK
James McDermott, University of Limerick, Ireland
Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia
José Fornari, NICS/Unicamp, Brazil
Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain
Marcelo Freitas Caetano, IRCAM, France
Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA
Michael O?Neill, University College Dublin, Ireland
Nicolas Monmarché, University of Tours, France
Oliver Bown, University of Sidney, Australia
Palle Dahlstedt, Göteborg University, Sweden
Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Pedro Cruz, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Peter Bentley, University College London , UK
Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA
Philippe Pasquier, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Roisin Loughran, University of Limerick, Ireland
Scott Draves, Independent Artist, USA
Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK
Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Stephen Todd, IBM, UK
Takashi Ikegami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Vic Ciesielski, RMIT, Australia
William Latham, University of London, UK