Second Iteration : emergence

Second international conference on generative systems in the electronic arts
December 5-7, 2001, Melbourne, Australia

 

The conference was held in the Art and Design building of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The event attracted a diverse international crowd of ninety people who spent the three days enjoying paper presentations, artist and technical talks, panel sessions, informal demonstrations and numerous social events.

  • Conference programme: daily conference programme.
  • Alphabetic contributor list: table of Second Iteration conference, CD-ROM & audio CD contributors.
  • Conference participants (and presentation titles) are also listed below according to category.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Erwin Driessens & Maria Verstappen (Netherlands)
Art needs emergent properties... A Recipe for Surprise		 N. Katherine Hayles (USA)
 The Ideology of Emergent Narrative: Exploring the Military-Entertainment Complex
Ray Jarvis (Aus)
On robotics and biology

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (Japan)
Expanding Artificial Life to Art and Entertainment for Mobile Phones

John Tonkin (Aus)
Generative Process as Metaphor 		 

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

All scholarly papers presented at Second Iteration were peer reviewed by full paper.

Papers chair: Alan Dorin. Paper reviewers: Mark Bedau, Peter Bentley, Rodney Berry, Richard Brown, Troy Innocent, Jon McCormack, Linda McIver, Peter McIlwain, Gordon Monro, Alistair Riddell.

Jon Bird & Andy Webster (UK)
The Blurring of Art and ALife		 Andrew Brown (Aus)
Growing Melodies: Automated melodic extension
Daniel Chien-Meng May et al (Denmark)
Tangible Objects: Modeling In Style		 Jon McCormack & Alan Dorin (Aus)
Art, Emergence and the Computational Sublime
Ananda Poernomo & Iman Poernomo (Aus)
Mosaic : Functional Programming for Set Theoretic Composition		 Christa Sommerer et al (Japan)
Expanding Artificial Life to Art and Entertainment for Mobile Phones
Tatsuo Unemi & Manabu Senda (Japan)
A New Musical Tool for Composition and Play Based on Simulated Breeding 		 

ARTIST / TECHNICAL SKETCHES

Darrel Anderson (USA)
The Genetic Aesthetic 		Tim Barrass (Aus)
Visualising the emergence of shared behavioural pathways in a crowd
Rodney Berry (Japan)
Have I emerged yet? 		David Birchfield (USA)
Evolving Intelligent Musical Materials
Stuart Bunt et al - SymbioticA (Aus)
Fish 'n Chips - the semi living artist		 Grant Dunlop et al (Aus)
Paramorphs: An Alternative Generative System
Troy Innocent (Aus)
Artefact		 Sonia Leber (Aus)
The Persuaders
Garth Paine (Aus)
Interactive sound works in public exhibition spaces, an artist's perspective		 Douglas Irving Repetto (USA)
This is not a simulation - physical systems inspired by computer models
Rob Saunders (UK)
Artificial Creativity: Emergent Notions of Creativity in Artificial Societies of Curious Agents		  

PANEL SESSIONS

Extravagant Synthesis
Emergence, autonomy and processes in electronic art.		 Wrong Turnings
On the pitfalls and possibilities of interdisciplinary interpretation of scientific theory

DEMO SESSION

  • Gordon Monro
  • Jonathon Crane
  • Jules Moloney
  • Rodney Berry
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