[alife] FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - EvoMUSART 2007

[Titus Brown]

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

EvoMUSART 2007

5th European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art

11-13 April, 2007, Valencia, Spain

http://www.evostar.org/

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INTRODUCTION
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The use of biological 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; and design.

EvoMUSART 2007 is the fifth 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
2007 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 11-13 April, 2007 in Valencia, Spain,
as part of the Evo* event.

Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and included
in the EvoWorkshops proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The papers should concern the use of biological inspired techniques -
e.g. 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;
- 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 biological
  inspired computation;
- 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 Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biological
  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 biological inspired techniques to produce
  novel objects;
o Systems that resort to biological inspired computation to perform
  the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types
  of artistic object;

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
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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 1, 2006.

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 December 15, 2006.

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 January 8, 2007. 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:
Evo*2007: http://www.evostar.org
EvoMUSART2007: http://evonet.lri.fr/TikiWiki/tiki-index.php?page=EvoMUSART

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission:  1 November 2006
Notification:  15 December 2006
Camera ready:  8 January 2007
Workshop:  11-13 April 2007

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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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


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia
Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Andrew Gildfind, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Artemis Sanchez Moroni, Renato Archer Research Center, Brazil
Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA
Brian J. Ross, Brock University, Canada
Carlos Grilo, School of Technology and Management of Leiria, Portugal
Charlie D. Frowd, University of Stirling, UK
Christian Jacob, University of Calgary, Canada
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
Eduardo R. Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK
Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France
Francisco Camara Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Francois-Joseph Lapointe, University of Montreal, Canada
Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA
Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Gianfranco Campolongo, University of Calabria, Italy
James McDermott, University of Limerick, UK
Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths College,  University of London, UK
Jeffrey Ventrella, Independent Artist, US
Joao Martins, University of Plymouth, UK
John Collomosse, University of Bath, UK
Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia
Jorge Tavares, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Larry Bull, University of the West of England, UK
Luigi Pagliarini, Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting & University of
Southern Denmark, Italy
Maria Goga, University of Bucharest, Romania
Martin Hemberg, Imperial College London, UK
Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA
Nicolas Monmarch?, University of Tours, France
Nicolae Goga, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Paul Brown, University of Sussex, UK
Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Peter Bentley, University College London, UK
Peter Todd, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
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
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Stephen Todd, IBM, UK
Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
William Latham, Art Games Ltd, UK