Species Explorer: An interface for artistic exploration of multi-dimensional parameter spaces

Lomas, Andy

doi:10.14236/ewic/eva2016.23

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“…Currently the following creation methods are provided. For more technical detail see (Lomas 2016 These provide a flexible palette of different methods for generation of new parameter values. In the author's experience using the system, he has found that different techniques are appropriate depending on his current intent.…”

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Lomas

2018

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This article reviews the development of the author's computational art practice, where the computer is used both as a device that provides the medium for generation of art ('computer as art') as well as acting actively as an assistant in the process of creating art ('computer as artist's assistant'), helping explore the space of possibilities afforded by generative systems. Drawing analogies with Kasparov's Advanced Chess and the deliberate development of unstable aircraft using fly-by-wire technology, the article argues for a collaborative relationship with the computer that can free the artist to more fearlessly engage with the challenges of working with emergent systems that exhibit complex unpredictable behavior. The article also describes 'Species Explorer', the system the author has created in response to these challenges to assist exploration of the possibilities afforded by parametrically driven generative systems. This system provides a framework to allow the user to use a number of different techniques to explore new parameter combinations, including genetic algorithms, and machine learning methods. As the system learns the artist's preferences the relationship with the computer can be considered to change from one of assistance to collaboration.

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2018

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“…Digital Art, Culture and Heritage: New constructs and consciousness Jonathan P. Bowen, Tula Giannini, Rachel Ara, Andy Lomas & Wonderland (1999). Lomas has previously presented at EVA London Conferences (Lomas 2016;Bowen et al 2018b).…”

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Digital Art, Culture and Heritage: New constructs and consciousness

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Electronic Workshops in Computing

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This half-day Symposium explores themes of digital art, culture, and heritage, bringing together speakers from a range of disciplines to consider technology with respect to artistic and academic practice. As we increasingly see ourselves and life through a digital lens and the world communicated on digital screens, we experience altered states of being and consciousness in ways that blur the lines between digital and physical reality, while our ways of thinking and seeing become a digital stream of consciousness that flows between place and cyberspace. We have entered the postdigital world and are living, working, and thinking with machines as our computational culture driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning embeds itself in everyday life and threads across art, culture, and heritage, juxtaposing them in the digital profusion of human creativity on the Internet.

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“…In 2014, his work Cellular Forms won The Lumen Prize Gold Award. He is a previous presenter and exhibitor at the EVA London conference (Lomas 2016;Papadimitriou et al 2017).…”

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Turing’s Genius – Defining an apt microcosm

Bowen

Trickett

Green

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Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Turing (1912-1954) is widely acknowledged as a genius. As well as codebreaking during World War II and taking a pioneering role in computer hardware design and software after the War, he also wrote three important foundational papers in the fields of theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical biology. He has been called the father of computer science, but he also admired by mathematicians, philosophers, and perhaps more surprisingly biologists, for his wide-ranging ideas. His influence stretches from scientific to cultural and even political impact. For all these reasons, he was a true polymath. This paper considers the genius of Turing from various angles, both scientific and artistic. The four authors provide position statements on how Turing has influenced and inspired their work, together with short biographies, as a starting point for a panel session and visual music performance.

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Species Explorer: An interface for artistic exploration of multi-dimensional parameter spaces

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

On Hybrid Creativity

On Hybrid Creativity

Digital Art, Culture and Heritage: New constructs and consciousness

Turing’s Genius – Defining an apt microcosm

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