---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS evomusart 2011 9th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design 27-29 April, 2011, Torino, Italy evomusart 2011: http://www.evostar.org/call-for-contributions/evoapplications/evomusart/ evo* 2011: http://www.evostar.org/ CFP in pdf: http://www.evostar.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/call_evomusart.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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; and design. evomusart 2011 is the ninth european event on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of evomusart 2011 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area. The event will be held from 27-29 April, 2011 in Torino, Italy as part of the evostar event. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included in the evoapplications proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should concern the use of biologically inspired techniques - e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, 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 Biologically Inspired Design and Art - Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; o Biologically Inspired Sound and Music - Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, etc.; o Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music; o Other related generative techniques; - Theory o Computational Aesthetics, Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty; o Representation techniques; o Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification; o Validation methodologies; o Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas; o New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically inspired computation; - Computer Aided Creativity o Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to promote the creativity of a human user; o New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle; o Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artifacts; o Collaborative distributed artificial art environments; - Automation o Techniques for automatic fitness assignment; o Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce novel objects; o 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: 22 November 2010 Notification: 7 January 2011 Camera ready: 1 February 2011 Workshop: 27-29 April 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) no later than November 22, 2010 to site http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps11 The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by January 7, 2011. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by February 1, 2011. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be available at the workshop. Further information, including the Online Submission Details, can be found on the following pages: evomusart2011: http://www.evostar.org/call-for-contributions/evoapplications/evomusart/ evostar 2011: http://www.evostar.org/ CFP in pdf: http://www.evostar.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/call_evomusart.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA Brian Ross, Brock University, Canada Carla Farsi, University of Colorado, USA Carlos Grilo, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal Christian Jacob, University of Calgary, Canada Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK Craig Kaplan, University of Waterloo, Canada Dan Ashlock, University of Guelph, Canada Eduardo Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK Eleonora Bilotta, University of Calabria, Italy Erwin Driessens, Independent Artist, Netherlands Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA Gary Nelson, Oberlin College, USA Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany James McDermott, University of Limerick, Ireland John Collomosse, University of Surrey, UK Jon Bird, University of Sussex, UK Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia Jorge Tavares, University of Coimbra, Portugal Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain Kevin Burns, Mitre Corporation, USA Luigi Pagliarini, Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting & University of Southern Denmark, Italy Maria Verstappen, Independent Artist, Netherlands Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA Mauro Annunziato, Plancton Art Studio, Italy Nicolas MonmarchÈ, University of Tours, France Oliver Bown, Monash University, Australia Palle Dahlstedt, Güteborg University, Sweden Paul Brown, University of Sussex, UK Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal Peter Bentley, University College London, UK Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Rodney Waschka II, North Carolina State University, USA Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Indonesia Scott Draves, Independent Artist, USA Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy Stephen Todd, IBM, UK Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Vic Ciesielski, RMIT, Australia William Latham, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Yang Li, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juan Romero University of A Coruna, Spain jj AT udc DOT es Gary Greenfield University of Richmond, USA ggreenfi AT richmond DOT edu