EvoMUSART 2009 : Submission Deadline extended to 30 November 2008

*** additional submission deadline extension***

Due to a number of requests by individual authors for a further
deadline extension, we have decided to grant an extension of
the submission deadline for all the Evo* 2009 events to

30 November 2008


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EvoMUSART 2009

7th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music,
Sound, Art and Design

15-17 April, 2009, Tubingen, Germany

http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoMUSART/EvoMUSART.html
http://www.evostar.org


INTRODUCTION

EvoMUSART 2009 is the seventh 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
2009 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically
inspired techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to
promote, present and discuss ongoing work in this area.

The workshop will be held from 15-17 April, 2009 in Tubingen, Germany
as part of the EvoStar 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.


EvoMUSART 2009 important dates are:

Submission deadline: November 30, 2008
Conference: April 15-17, 2009

To submit a paper you can directly access the page:
http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoworkshops09/

or otherwise find all instructions and information about the
EvoStar 2009 events at the page:
http://www.evostar.org


TOPICS OF INTEREST

The papers should concern the use of bio-inspired techniques -
e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural
Networks, 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 Biologically Inspired Design and Art-Systems that create
drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, objects,
designs, webpages, buildings, etc.;
o Biologically Inspired Sound and Music - Systems that create
music, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound
analysis, 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 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
biologically inspired computation;
- Computer Aided Creativity
o Systems in which biologically 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 biologically
inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these
approaches; the resulting artifacts;
o Collaborative distributed artificial art environments;
- Automation
o Techniques for automated fitness assignment;
o Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks
is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to
produce novel objects;
o Systems that exploit biologically inspired computation to
perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some
other types of artistic object;


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format no later than November 30, 2008. Formatting instructions
available at:

http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=1-164-7-72376-0&teaserId=45515&CENTER_ID=73062)

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 January 9, 2008.

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 28, 2009. 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*2009: http://www.evostar.org
EvoMUSART2009: http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoMUSART/EvoMUSART.html


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission: 30 November 2008
Notification: 9 January 2008
Camera ready: 28 January 2009
Workshop: 15-17 April 2009


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Alain Lioret, Paris 8 University, France
Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia
Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Andrew Gildfind, Google, Inc., Australia
Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Artemis Sanchez Moroni, Renato Archer Research Center, Brazil
Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA
Brian Ross, Brock University, Canada
Carla Farsi, University of Colorado, USA
Christian Jacob , University of Calgary, Canada
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
David Hart, Independent Artist, USA
Eleonora Bilotta, University of Calabria, Italy
Erwin Driessens, Independent Artist, Netherlands
Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA
Gary Nelson, Oberlin College, USA
Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany
James McDermott, University of Limerick, Ireland
John Collomosse, University of Bath, UK
Jon Bird, University of Sussex, UK
Jonatas Manzolli , UNICAMP, Brasil
Jorge Tavares, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France
Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain
Luigi Pagliarini, Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting & University of Southern Denmark, Italy
Maria Verstappen, Independent Artist, Netherlands
Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA
Mauro Annunziato, Plancton Art Studio, Italy
Nicolas Monmarché, University of Tours, France
Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Paul Brown, University of Sussex, UK
Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa , Portugal
Peter Bentley, University College London , UK
Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA
Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Rodney Waschka II, North Carolina State University, USA
Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK
Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Stephen Todd, IBM, UK
Steve DiPaola, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
William Latham, Art Games Ltd, UK


STEERING COMMITTEE

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

Jon McCormack

Monash University
Jon DOT McCormack AT infotech DOT monash DOT edu DOT au


WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Penousal Machado
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Machado AT dei DOT uc DOT pt

Jon McCormack
Monash University
Jon DOT McCormack AT infotech DOT monash DOT edu DOT au