Zer0: An Emergent and Autopoietic Multi-agent System for Novelty Creation in Game Art through Gesture Interaction

Autopoiesis in Creativity and Art

“…3 .. in much the same way as Koskinen identifies that all business organisations eventually wither, dissolve away and ultimately die ".. decisions have to be imagined as events. In the very moment of their coming into being, they already fade away.…”

“…In our example the artistic environment is initially an outline sketch of Kooning's abstract canvas, displayed initially in the right-hand panel of the video; with the creative output, displayed on the left. 13 In [3] Francisco de Paula Barretto and Suzete Venturelli outline a evolutionary multi-agent system inspired by autopoiesis, that has been deployed in a computer game ('Zer0') to compose emergent music in real time. Although the authors note the influence of autopoiesis in their conceptualisation, the Barretto and Venturelli paper fails to expand any manner in which the Zer0 agents qualify as autpoietic systems; indeed their use of explicit goals and internal representations argue against this conceptualisaiotn being fully merited.…”

“…Although the authors note the influence of autopoiesis in their conceptualisation, the Barretto and Venturelli paper fails to expand any manner in which the Zer0 agents qualify as autpoietic systems; indeed their use of explicit goals and internal representations argue against this conceptualisaiotn being fully merited. For these reasons we are unable to consider [3] further in this exposition. 14 For example, in our system we have defined such an area of interest (or 'meaning distinction') to be a line situated in a complex region of the image; an area that is rich/dense in comparison with other lines.…”

“…While these creative processes continue to produce interesting and meaningful outputs, her autopoietic unity will continue intact; conversely, if her output becomes gradually less meaningful and interesting, her creative unity will begin to dissolve and ultimately die; and the artist return to reflect upon the tabula-rasa again 3 .…”

Autopoiesis, creativity and dance

“…Although these are short-term attention-fields, they can be related to 5 As Clare [10] observes, "Jacob von Uexkull labelled perception of the world, experienced by and through the capacity of species-specific bodies, the umwelt: literally surround-world. That is to say it is inherently embodied because it is biologically limited by the sensory apparatus of the physical body".…”