4th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

Event Dates

Apr 08, 2015 - Apr 10, 2015

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Submission Deadline

Nov 25, 2014

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CALL FOR PAPERS – DEADLINE EXTENSION – 25 November

EvoMUSART 2015

http://www.evostar.org/2015/cfp_evomusart.php

4th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired

Music, Sound, Art and Design

April 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark

Part of evo* 2015

evo*: http://www.evostar.org

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NEW THIS YEAR: LEONARDO Gallery

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The journal LEONARDO will be publishing a Gallery Section (online and in the

print edition) associated with the conference. This will consist of a number

of visual artworks based on ideas and techniques presented at the conference.

A separate call for this will be issued after papers have been selected for

the conference.

http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/

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Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of

evolutionary and biologically inspired (artificial neural network, swarm,

alife) music, sound, art and design, evomusart has become an evo* conference

with independent proceedings since 2012. Thus, evomusart 2015 is the

fourth 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 2015 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 in April, 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark,

as part of the Evo* event.

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Publication Details

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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 2014 was 26.7% for papers accepted for oral

presentation, or 36.7% for oral and poster presentation combined.

Submitters are strongly encouraged to provide in all papers a link for

download of media demonstrating their results, whether music, images, video,

or other media types. Links should be anonymised for double-blind review,

e.g. using a URL shortening service.

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Topics of interest

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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;

– 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 artefacts;

– 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 (to be confirmed)

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Submission (UPDATED): 25 November 2014

Notification to authors: 07 January 2015

Camera-ready deadline: 21 January 2015

Evo*: 8-10 April 2015

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Additional information and submission details

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Submit your manuscript, at most 12 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format

(instructions downloadable from

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) no later than

November 15th, 2014.

Page limit: 12 pages

The reviewing process will be double-blind; please omit information about

the authors in the submitted paper.

Submission page: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart15/

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Programme committee

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Adrián 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 Brown, Griffith University, Australia

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

Antonios Liapis, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Arne Eigenfeldt, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Benjamin Schroeder, Ohio State University, USA

Benjamin Smith, Indianapolis University, Purdue University,Indianapolis, 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

Dan Ventura, Brigham Young University, USA

Daniel Jones, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

Daniel Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Douglas Repetto, Columbia University, USA

Eduardo Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK

Eelco den Heijer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Eleonora Bilotta, University of Calabria, Italy

Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA

Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany

Jonathan E. Rowe, University of Birmingham, UK

Jane Prophet, City University of Hong Kong, China

Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia

Jonathan Byrne, University College Dublin, Ireland

Jonathan Eisenmann, Ohio State University, USA

José Fornari, NICS/Unicamp, Brazil

Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain

Kate Reed, Imperial College, UK

Marcelo Freitas Caetano, IRCAM, France

Marcos Nadal, University of Vienna, Austria

Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA

Mauro Annunziato, Plancton Art Studio, Italy

Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, University of Patras, Greece

Michael O’Neill, University College Dublin, Ireland

Nicolas Monmarché, University of Tours, France

Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Palle Dahlstedt, Göteborg University, Sweden

Patrick Janssen, National University of Singapure, Singapure

Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Pedro Abreu, University of Coimbra, 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

Philippe Pasquier, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

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

Roisin Loughran, University College Dublin, Ireland

Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Indonesia

Scott Draves, Independent Artist, USA

Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Brunei Institute of Technology, Malaysia

Stephen Todd, IBM, UK

Takashi Ikegami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

Vic Ciesielski, RMIT, Australia

Yang Li, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

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Conference chairs

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Colin Johnson

University of Kent, UK

c.g.johnson(at)kent.ac.uk

Adrián Carballal

University of A Coruña, Spain

adriancarballal(at)gmail.com

Publication chair

João Correia, University of Coimbra

jncor(at)dei.uc.pt