JON McCORMACK::research publications by year
2009
Bown, O. and J. McCormack: 'Creative Agency: A Clearer Goal for Artificial Life in the Arts' in Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) 2009, Budapest, Hungary.
Bown, O., A. Eldridge and J. McCormack: 'Understanding Interaction in Contemporary Digital Music: from instruments to behavioural objects', Organised Sound Vol 14(2), Cambridge University Press, August 2009, pp. 188-196 [pdf]
M.A. Boden, M. d'Inverno and J. McCormack (eds): 'Computational Creativity: an interdisciplinary approach', Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 09291, LZI Germany, ISSN 1862 - 4405 [link]
J.McCormack: 'The Evolution of Sonic Ecosystems' in Komosinski, Maciej; Adamatzky, Andrew (eds.), Artificial Life Models in Software (Second Edition), Springer, Berlin 2009 [pdf][book web site] revised paper on Eden for the second edition of this book.
J. McCormack, A. Eldridge, A. Dorin and P. McIlwain: 'Generative Algorithms for Making Music: Emergence, Evolution and Ecosystems', in R.T. Dean (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music, Oxford University Press, pp. 354–379, 2009 [web site][preview on google books]
J. McCormack and O. Bown: 'Lif'e's what you make: Niche Construction and Evolutionary Art', in M. Giacobini, et. al. (eds): EvoWorkshops 2009, LNCS 5484, pp. 528-537, 2009 [pdf]
2008
J. McCormack: 'Evolutionary L-systems', in P.F. Hingston, L.C. Barone and Z. Michalewicz (eds.) Design by Evolution: Advances in Evolutionary Design, Springer, Berlin, pp. 168-196, 2008
P. Brown, D. W. Cunningham, V. Interrante and J. McCormack (eds), Computational Aesthetics 2008: Eurographics Workshop on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualisation and Imaging, Eurographics Association, Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland, ISBN 978-3-905674-08-8, 2008
Mario Giacobini, et. al. (eds), Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2008: EvoCOMNET, EvoFIN, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, EvoNUM, EvoSTOC, and EvoTransLog Proceedings, Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008, LNCS 4974, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. [volume editor]
A. Eldridge, A. Dorin & J. McCormack: Manipulating Artificial Ecosystems, in Mario Giacobini, et. al. (eds): Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoWorkshops 2008: EvoCOMNET, EvoFIN, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, EvoNUM, EvoSTOC, and EvoTransLog), LNCS 4974/2008, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2008., pp. 392-401 [pdf]
J. McCormack: Facing the Future: Evolutionary Possibilities for Human-Machine Creativity, in P. Machado and J. Romero (eds.) The Art of Artificial Evolution: A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and Music, pp. 417-451, Springer, 2008 [pdf extract] [more information].
2007
J. McCormack, P. McIlwain, A. Lane & A. Dorin: Generative Composition with Nodal, in E.R. Miranda (ed.) Workshop on Music and Artificial Life (part of ECAL 2007), Lisbon, Portugal, 2007. [pdf]
J. McCormack: Artificial Ecosystems for Creative Discovery, in Thierens D. et. al. (eds) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007) 7-11 July 2007, London, ACM, New York, Volume 1, pp. 301-307. [pdf] [presentation slides]
J. McCormack: Creative Ecosystems, in A. Cardoso and G.A. Wiggins (eds), Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, 17-19 June 2007, Goldsmiths, University of London 2007, pp. 129-136. [pdf]
2006
P. McIlwain, J. McCormack, A. Dorin & A. Lane: "Composing With Nodal Networks", in Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC), Haines (ed.), 2006, ACMA, Fitzroy, Australia 2006, pp. 101-7. [pdf]
J. McCormack: New Challenges for Evolutionary Music and Art, in Lanzi, P. L. (ed), ACM SIGEVOlution Newsletter, Vol. 1(1), April 2006, pp. 5-11, ISSN 1931-8499. [pdf] Invited Paper.
2005
J. McCormack: A Developmental Model for Generative Media, in M. S. Capcarrere, A. A. Freitas, P. J. Bentley, C. G. Johnson and J. Timmis (eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol 3630 [Proceedings of the 8th European Conf. on Advances in Artificial Life, (ECAL 2005), Canterbury, UK, 5-9 September 2005 ], Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN-10: 3-540-28848-1, ISBN-13: 978-540-28848-0, pp 88-97. [pdf] Winner of a Special Commendation Award for Research from the ECAL programme committee.
P. McIlwain & J. McCormack: Design Issues in Musical Composition Networks, in T. Opie and A. Brown (eds), Proceedings of the Australiasian Computer Music Conference (ACMA), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. 12 - 14 July 2005, pp. 96-101. [pdf]
J. McCormack, On the Evolution of Sonic Ecosystems, in Adamatzky, A. & M. Komosinski (eds), Artificial Life Models in Software, Springer-Verlag, London. pp. 211-230. [Publisher Web Site]
J. McCormack: Open Problems in Evolutionary Music and Art, in F. Rothlauf et al. (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3449 [Proceedings of Applications of Evolutionary Computing, (EvoMUSART 2005), Lausanne, Switzerland, 30 March - 1 April 2005], Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISSN: 0302-9743 & ISBN: 3-540-25396-3, pp 428-436. [pdf] Winner of Best Paper Award, EvoMUSART 2005.
2004
J. McCormack: Impossible Nature: the art of Jon McCormack, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne.
J. McCormack, A. Dorin & T. Innocent: Generative Design: A Paradigm for Design Research, Futureground Conference Proceedings, Design Research Society (Conference held at Monash University, Melbourne, 17 - 21 November 2004). [pdf]
J. McCormack: Generative Modelling with Timed L-Systems, in J. S. Gero (ed) Design Computing and Cognition '04, [Proceedings of the First International Conference on Design, Computing and Cognition (DCC'04), Cambridge, USA, 19-21 July 2004], Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, ISBN: 1-4020-2393-6, pp. 157–175. [pdf]
J. McCormack: Aesthetic Evolution of L-Systems Revisited, in G. R. Raidl, S. Cagnnoni, J. Branke, D.W. Corne, R. Drechsler, Y. Jin, C.G. Johnson, P. Machado, E. Marchiori, F. Rothlauf, G.D. Smith & G. Squillero (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3005 [Procedings of Applications of Evolutionary Computing (Evoworkshops 2004, EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHOT, EvoISAP, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC, Coimbra, Portugal, 5-7 April, 2004], Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, ISSN: 0302-9743 & ISBN: 3-540-21378-3, pp 477-488. [pdf]
2003
J. McCormack: The Application of L-Systems and Developmental Models to Computer Art, Animation, and Music Synthesis, PhD thesis, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Clayton. [abstract]
J. McCormack: A Method for Generating Phyliotaxis over Surfaces of Revolution, Technical Report, No. 2003/149, December, 2003. Monash University, Melbourne. [abstract] [pdf]
J. McCormack: Evolving Sonic Ecosystems, in A Adamatzky (ed), The International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics - Kybernetes, Vol 32, Issue 1/2, 2003, Emerald, Northampton, UK, ISSN: 0368-492X, pp 184-202. [pdf]
J. McCormack: Art and the Mirror of Nature, in P. Brown (ed), Digital Creativity, Vol 14, Issue 1, 2003 (Special issue on Generative Computation and the Arts), Swets & Zeitlinger BV, The Netherlands, ISSN: 1462-6268, pp 3-22.
2002
A. Dorin and J. McCormack: Self-Assembling Dynamical Hierarchies, in R. K. Standish, M. A. Bedau and H. A. Abbass (eds), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life (Artificial Life VIII), NSW, Australia, 9-13 December 2002, The MIT Press, London, England, ISBN: 0-262-69281-3, pp 423-428. [Lecture Slides] [pdf]
J. McCormack and A. Dorin: Ways of Seeing: Visualization of Artificial Life Environments, Workshop Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Artificial Life VIII - Workshops), NSW, Australia, 10 December 2002, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia, ISBN: 0-7317-0509-2, pp 155-162. [pdf]
J. McCormack: Evolving for the Audience, International Journal of Design Computing, Vol 4, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia, ISSN: 1329-7147 13pp. [full paper html]
2001
J. McCormack and A. Dorin: Art, Emergence and the Computational Sublime, Second Iteration [Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, Victoria, Australia, 5-7 December 2001], Centre for Electronic Media Art, VIC, Australia, ISBN: 0-7326-2195-X, pp 67-81. [pdf]
J. McCormack: Eden: an evolutionary sonic ecosystem, in J. Kelemen and P. Sosik (eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol 2159, [Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the 6th European Conference (ECAL), Prague, Czech Republic, 10 - 14 September 2001], Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISSN: 0302-9743, 2001, pp 133-142. [pdf]
A. Dorin and J. Mccormack: First Iteration - A Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, Leonardo, Vol 34, Issue 3, (June 2001) and Issue 4 (August 2001), The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, ISSN: 0024-094X, pp 239-242. [web page]
1999
A. Dorin and J. McCormack (editors): First Iteration: a conference on generative systems in the electronic arts, Proceedings of the First International Conference, CEMA, Melbourne, 1999. ISBN: 0-7326-2123-2. [web site] [conference site]
A. Dorin and J. McCormack: (editors), First Iteration: a conference on generative systems in the electronic arts, (CD-Rom - 'D'), The Centre for Electronic Media Arts, Clayton, VIC, ISBN: 0-7326-2124-0.
A. Dorin and J. McCormack: (editors), First Iteration: a conference on generative systems in the electronic arts, (CD - 'A'), Audio works of the First Iteration, Solitary Sound, North Melbourne, VIC, ISBN: 0-7326-2124-0.
1998
J. McCormack and A. Sherstyuk: Creating and rendering convolution surfaces, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol 17, Issue 2, 1998. pp. 113-121. [web site] [examples from the paper]
1997
J. McCormack and A. V. Sherstyuk: Creating and rendering convolution surfaces, 97/324, Department of Computer Science Technical Reports, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Australia, 1-15, 15pp. Technical report CS 97/324. [Abstract available] [pdf]
1996
McCormack, J.: Grammar Based Music Composition, in Complex Systems 96: From Local Interactions to Global Phenomena, R. Stocker et. al., eds, ISO Press, Amsterdam, pp. 320-336. [pdf] [html]
J. McCormack: The poetics of programming: Can the programmer be an artist?, in The Language of Interactivity. The Australian Film Commission's Multimedia Conference, Australian Film Commission, Sydney Australia, pp. 23 - 23.
1995
J. McCormack: Modelling (Un)–Natural Forms, ACM Siggraph 95 Technical Sketch, Los Angeles (California), USA, August 1995.
1994
J. McCormack: Post-visual: Bitmaps: Ideas on art and technology, Photophile Vol 42, pp. 46-8, 1994. [html]
J. McCormack: TURBULENCE an interactive installation exploring artificial life, Visual proc. of ACM Siggraph 94, Orlando, Florida, Academic Press, N.Y., pp. 182-3, 1994. [see Turbulence web pages]
J. McCormack: WILD an interactive computer installation, 1994 Next Wave Art & Technology Catalogue: Proceedings of ARTECH'94 conference, Melbourne, pp. 22-25, 1994.
J. McCormack: Rule based modelling of natural forms, Proceedings of research conference: Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, 28, 1994.
1993
J. McCormack: New Trends in Computer Graphics, New Media Technologies, edited by Ross Harley. Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Sydney, Australia, 1993.
J. McCormack: Interactive Evolution of L-System Grammars for Computer Graphics Modelling, in Complex Systems: From Biology to Computation, David Green and Terry Bossomaier (eds.), ISO Press, Amsterdam, pp. 118-130, 1993. [pdf]
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