evomusart 2012 announcement: IJART and GPEM special issues on evolutionary art and music

[Juan Romero]

announcement: IJART special issue on evolutionary art and music
(International Journal of Arts and Technology)
announcement: GPEM special issue on evolutionary art and music
(Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines)
announcement: Deadline extension: December 7th.
HARD DEADLINE. No further extensions.

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

evomusart 2012

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

11-13 April 2012, Malaga, Spain


Part of evo* 2012
evo*: http://www.evostar.org
evomusart: http://www.evostar.org/2012/call-for-contributions/evomusart/
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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 evo* event.

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Publication Details
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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.

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POST-CONFERENCE JOURNAL PUBLICATION
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit expanded versions
of their work for two planned special issues on Evolutionary Art and
Music. One on the Springer journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable
Machines (GPEM) and another on the International Journal of Arts and
Technology (IJART)

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Topics of interest
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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;

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Important Dates
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Submission: 7 December 2011
Conference: 11-13 April 2012