EvoMUSART 2006 4th European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art 10-12 April, 2006, Budapest, Hungary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: 5 November 2005 EuroGP website: http://evonet.lri.fr//eurogp2006/ EvoMUSART2006 website: http://evonet.lri.fr//eurogp2006/?page=evomusart Exhibition website: http://evonet.lri.fr//eurogp2006/?page=art_exhibition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EvoMUSART 2006 is the fourth 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 2006 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. The workshop will be held from 10-12 April, 2006 in Budapest, Hungary, as part of the EuroGP&EvoCOP2006 event. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and included in the EuroGP2006 conference proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. This year, the exhibition component of the workshop is entitled "Process Revealed", and focuses on the disclosure and explanation of the processes involved in artistic creation. "Process revealed" considers the generative, the algorithmic and the evolved in relation to analytical, performative possibilities. The submission of works for "Process Revealed" is independent from the submission of papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should include original and unpublished contributions related to the use of biological inspired techniques - such as Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, etc - in the scope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 o Biological Inspired Art - Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, etc.; o Biological Inspired Music - Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, etc.; o Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music; o Other related generative techniques; - Analysis and Interpretation o Systems that resort to biological inspired computation to perform the analysis of image, music, sound sculpture, or some other types of artistic object; o Systems in which the analysis of artworks is used in conjunction with EC techniques to produce novel objects; - Computer Aided Creativity o Systems in which biological inspired computation is used to promote the creativity of a human user; o New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle; o Collaborative distributed environments; - Theory o Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification; o Representation techniques; o Validation methodologies; o New models designed to promote the creative potential of biological inspired computation; o Aesthetics, emotional response; o Philosophical implications; o Studies on the applicability of these techniques to other creativity- related areas; -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information about EvoMUSART2006 and the "Process Revealed" exhibition can be found on the following pages: EvoMUSART2006: http://evonet.lri.fr//eurogp2006/?page=evomusart Exhibition: http://evonet.lri.fr//eurogp2006/?page=art_exhibition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: 4 November 2005 Notification: 12 December 2005 Camera ready: 9 January 2006 Workshop: 10-12 April 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Penousal Machado University of Coimbra, Portugal Machado AT dei DOT uc DOT pt Juan Romero University of A Coruna, Spain jj AT udc DOT es -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXIBHITION CURATORS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Blackwell University of London, UK t.blackwell AT gold DOT ac DOT uk Janis Jefferies University of London, UK j.jefferies AT gold DOT ac DOT uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia Alice C. Eldridge, University of Sussex, UK Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain Anargyros Sarafopoulos, Bournemouth University, UK Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA Carlos Grilo, School of Technology and Management of Leiria, Portugal Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK Eduardo R. Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France Francisco Camara Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan James McDermott, University of Limerick, UK Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Jeffrey Ventrella, Independent Artist, US John Collomosse, University of Bath, UK Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia Jorge Tavares, University of Coimbra, Portugal Ken Musgrave, Pandromeda, Inc., US Lee Spector, Hampshire College, USA Luigi Pagliarini, Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Italy & University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Martin Hemberg, Imperial College London, UK Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA Mauro Annunziato, Plancton Art Studio, Italy Michael Young, University of London, UK Niall J.L. Griffith, University of Limerick, UK Paul Brown, Visiting Professor, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, UK Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa Peter Bentley, University College London Peter Todd, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Rodney Waschka II, North Carolina State University, USA Scott Draves, San Francisco, USA Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma., Italy Stephen Todd, IBM, UK Tatsuo Unemi, Soka University, Japan Tim Blackwell, University of London, UK William Latham, Art Games Ltd, UK