Just in time for Open Day, a new artwork by Alice created using custom software she has developed for the Design After Nature project. In this version of You Pretty Little Flocker, Alice created four large backlit lightbox images, each generated using separate runs of the software. The artwork is on permanent exhibition outside the Centre for Electronic Media Art studio, Building 63, Monash University, Clayton Campus.
activities associated with the project
Alice Eldridge presents our paper on Manipulating Artificial Ecosystems. at the workshop of Evolutionary Music and Art in Naples. This workshop is part of the evostar conference on Evolutionary Computation.
EVOLUTIONARY MUSIC AND ART
0900 - 1800
Weds 26th March 2007
Manipulating artificial ecosystems
Evolutionary approaches to music, art and design have tended to employ either an Interactive IGA, or a fixed, formal fitness function to guide the evolutionary process. In this talk I present the ecosystemic concept of niche and explain how this and the associated ideas expand the possibilities for generative artists. I shall argue that this broader picture is not only more representative of the ongoing, dynamic (non-teleological) nature of evolution that standard Evolutionary Algorithms, but offers a novel way of conceiving and designing evolutionary pressure in creative situations.
This one day workshop examines the applications and critical analysis of Ecosystems in electronic media art. Speakers include: Palle Dahlstdet, Alan Dorin, Alice Eldridge, Petra Gemeinboeck, Mark Guglielmetti, Troy Innocent, Jon McCormack, Peter McIlwain, Ben Porter, Rob Saunders, and Mitchell Whitelaw.
Wednesday, December 12 2007. 10am - 6pm.
Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Caulfield Campus.
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Improvised Electronic Music
by Dahlstedt & Mcilwain
Live at Horse Bazaar Dec 11, 9 pm
397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne(Between Queen St and Elizabeth St near the corner of Hardware St)
An evening of interesting and creative music making by two very experienced and talented composers who come from opposite ends of the world. Palle Dahlstedt (Sweden) and Peter Mcilwain (Australia) are respected for both their creative work and their research into the development of new software and hardware tools for generative music. Palle’s software is used by the Clavia company in the renowned Nord Modular synthesisers and Peter is a co-designer of Nodal a popular new composition system for Mac OS X. Their compositions have been performed around the world and they are both experienced in live improvisation in groups such as; Palle’s duo pantoMorf and Peter’s Sonic Art Group. Their commissioned work includes sound installations such as Peter’s work in the Virtual Room of the Melbourne Museum.
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Jon McCormack presents Colourfield at the joint meeting of the Colour Group and the British Computer Society Computer Arts Society Meeting
COLOUR IN COMPUTER ART
13:30 for 14.00 – ends 16:30
Wednesday 20 June 2007
British Computer Society
The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London, WC2E 7HA
Colourfied: an evolutionary ecosystem of colour
In biology, evolutionary synthesis is a process capable of generating unprecedented novelty, i.e. it is creative. It has been able to create things like prokaryotes, eukaryotes, higher multicellularity and language through a non-teleological process of replication and selection. Colourfield is a simple experiment in machine assisted creative discovery. It uses the metaphor of an adaptive ecosystem. A population of colours exists in a 1-dimensional world, and the colours are “grown” from a gene that expresses natural weights towards neighbouring colours along with an innate “personal” colour.