Connotation in Computational Creativity

Johnson, Colin G.

doi:10.1007/s12559-012-9141-8

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“…This requires both a depth of understanding largely beyond current AI systems, and a breadth of contextual understanding. One possibility is to base such measures on the 'connotational' value (Johnson, 2012a) of an object-how it fits into a network of concepts, which might be changing with time and responding to external events-rather than purely form-based measures.…”

Section: Form and Aesthetic Measurementioning

confidence: 99%

Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, and Search-Based Art

Johnson

2021

Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems

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Why do people exhibit particular behaviour towards a class of objects called artworks? That is the topic of study in aesthetics. This paper explores how various theories of aesthetics can be interpreted in the context of artworks generated by artificial intelligence systems, in particular those that are grounded in the idea of search as a means of implementing intelligence computationally. A number of aesthetic theories are explored, including ideas of imitation, skill, form, expression, imagination, and focus. The paper concludes by highlighting a number of areas that, in light of these considerations, have been neglected by the makers of computer art systems and which provide future opportunities in this area.

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Section: Form and Aesthetic Measurementioning

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Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, and Search-Based Art

Johnson

2021

Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems

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“…This concept of giving a fitness value to components by virtue of their role in a network rather than by their value in isolation has been explored by Berthold and colleagues (Nagel et al, 2011;Kötter and Berthold, 2011), and the idea of a fitness measure based on what a population member connotes as well as what it denotes has been explored elsewhere (Johnson, 2012a). This kind of exploration incorporates many of the valuable aspects of how human designers and artists carry out the creation process; however, this is not to say that the aim of an evolutionary creative exploration is to replicate point-for-point the human-based design/creation process.…”

Section: Memory and Scaffoldingmentioning

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Fitness in evolutionary art and music: a taxonomy and future prospects

Johnson

2016

IJART

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This paper is concerned with the idea of fitness in art and music systems that are based on evolutionary computation. A taxonomy is presented of the ways in which fitness is used in such systems, with two dimensions: what the fitness function is applied to, and the basis by which the function is constructed. A large collection of papers are classified using this taxonomy. The paper then discusses a number of ideas that have not been used for fitness evaluation in evolutionary art and which might be valuable in future developments: memory, scaffolding, connotation and web search.

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