CALL FOR PAPERS

evomusart 2013

2nd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired

Music, Sound, Art and Design

3-5 April 2013, Vienna, Austria

Part of evo* 2013

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

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Following the success of previous events and the importance of the

field of evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and

design, evomusart has become an evo* conference with independent

proceedings. Thus, evomusart 2013 is the eleventh European Event and

the second 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 2013 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 3-5 April, 2013 in Vienna, Austria as part

of the evo* event.

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 2012 was 34.9% for papers

accepted for oral presentation, or 46.5% for oral and poster

presentation combined.

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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

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Submission: 1 November 2012

Conference: 3-5 April 2013

Notification to authors: 21 December 2012

Camera-ready deadline: 15 January 2013

Evo*: 3-5 April 2013

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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 1, 2012.

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

about the authors in the submitted paper.

Conference chairs

Penousal Machado

University of Coimbra, Portugal

machado(at)dei.uc.pt <http://dei.uc.pt>

James McDermott

University College Dublin, Ireland

jamesmichaelmcdermott(at)gmail.com <http://gmail.com>

Publication chair

Adrian Carballal

University of A Coruna, Spain

adrian.carballal(at)udc.es <http://udc.es>