3rd International Conference on Generative Art

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Politecnico di Milano University, Milan, Italy
Conference 14-16 Dec 2000
Exhibition 12-16 Dec 2000
 

FINAL PROGRAM OF GA2000

14 Dec. 2000 - 9:30 AM /7:30 PM
Aula Magna Rogers
9:00 AM Opening Session
• From Forming to Transforming
Celestino Soddu, Generative Design Lab, Milan Polytechnic University, Italy
• Experimental Search for Order in the Code of Generated Drawings
Hans Dehlinger, University of Kassel, Kunsthochschule, Germany
• Evolving the Shape of Things to Come. A Comparison of Interactive Evolution and Direct Manipulation for Creative Tasks
Andreas Lund, Interactive Institute & Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden
10:45 AM Coffee break
11:00 AM Session 2
• Swarm modelling
Paul Coates & Pablo Miranda, University of East London School of Architecture, UK
• Mater Matuta
Enrica Colabella, Milan Polytechnic University, Italy
12:00 AM Round Table on the state of Generative Art
Maria Grazia Mattei, MGM Digital Communication, Italy
1:00 PM Lunch
2:30 PM Session 3
• Redirecting design generation in architecture
Alexander Koutamanis, Delft University of Technology Faculty of Architecture, Berlageweg, The Netherlands
• Aesthetic Evolutionary Design with Data Flow Networks
Matthew Lewis, The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
• ArTbitrariness in Music
Artemis Moroni, Information Technology Institute - Interactive Computer Graphics Lab, ITI/LSGI,
Fernando Von Zuben, State University of Campinas, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering - UNICAMP/FEEC,
Jônatas Manzolli, State University of Campinas, Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Sound Communication, UNICAMP/NICS, Brazil
• Travels in Space and Time, Explorations of Virtual SoundScapes, Multi-dimensionalism of Digital Music
Gabriel Maldonado, Musician, Italy
4:30 PM Coffee break
4:45 PM Session 4, Paper and Music Performances
• A Generative Approach to Variations in Production Processes
PierPaolo Brotzu, Marco Maiocchi – TEAnO, Milano, Italy
• Generative Interactive Music
Aaron Wolf Baum, San Francisco California, USA
Video and Music Performances
• Universal City
Luca Tanzini, Laboratorio Multimediale, Universita' di Siena, Italy
• Embryonic
Marianne Selsjord, Norwegian State Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo
7:00 PM Discussion

15 Dec. 2000 - 9.00 AM - 7:30 PM
Aula Magna Rogers
9:00 AM Session 5
• Evolutionary Architecture (videoconference)
John Hamilton Frazer, Professor, Dean of the School of Design - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
• On the Translation of Design Data into Design Form in Evolutionary Design
Cristiano Ceccato, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
• Algorithms of the Mind. The generative art of drawing
Howard Riley MA(RCA) School of Art & Design Swansea Institute Associate College of the University of Wales, Swansea,Wales, UK
10:30 AM Coffee break
10:45 AM Session 6
• Artificial Worlds, Virtual Generations
Mauro Annunziato and Piero Pierucci, Plancton art studio, Rome, Italy
• Controlling Chaos: a Simple Deterministic System for Creating Complex Organic Shapes
Kevin McGuire, Object Technology International Inc
• Communicative Profiles.Generative Art Applied in Information Access Interfaces
Joanna Kabala, Philips Design, Senior Interaction Designer
Claudine Conrado, Philips Research, Research Scientist
Kees van Overveld, Philips Research, Senior Consultant, The Netherlands
12:30 AM Round Table on Generative Design, Production and Commerce
1:00 PM Lunch
2:30 PM Session 7
• Artificial Neural Network Spaces
Robert Thum, Dipl Ing MSc and Christian Derix, Cand Arch, University of East London, UK
• Architectural Innovation as an evolutionary process
Roel Daru, in collaboration with Eric Vreedenburgh and Remko Scha University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Generative Recognizable Codes from Gaudi'
Matteo Codignola, Generative Design Lab, Milan Polytechnic University, Italy
• The aesthetics of generative code
Alex McLean, Adrian Ward (VX-SLAB & Sidestream), Geoff Cox (CAiiA-STAR), UK
4:30 PM Coffee break
4:45 PM Session 8
• Hearing Architectural Design: Simulation and Auralization for Generating Better Acoustic Spaces
Quinsan Ciao, Department of Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
• Teaching Generative Design Approaches
Maya Kagawa, Marcello Pinzero, Generative Design Lab, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy
• GA2: a Programming Environment for Abstract Generative Fine Art
Philip Galanter, Interactive Telecommunications Program: New York University, USA
• Music Composition with Interactive Evolutionary Computation
Nao Tokui and Hitoshi Iba, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Generative music composition in practice - a critical evaluation
John Eacott, UK
7:00 PM Discussion
8:30 PM Conference Dinner

16 Dec. 2000 - 9.00 AM - 1:30 PM
Aula Magna Rogers
9:00 AM Session 9
• TEAnO or the computer assisted generation of manufactured aesthetic goods seen as a constrained flux of technological unconsciousness
Paolo Ferrara and Gabriele Foglia, TEAnO, Italy
• Deep architectures and exterior communication in Generative Art
Andrea Chiodi, TEAnO Italy, Marco M. Vernillo, TEAnO, Italy
• Possible Futures in Computer Art Generation
Owen F. Ransen, Ing. Computer Graphics and CAD consultant, Italy
• Music Generation through Cellular Automata
E. Bilotta, P. Pantano and V. Talarico, Evolutionary Systems Group, Centro Interdipartimentale della Comunicazione, University of Calabria, Italy
11:00 AM Coffee break
11:10 AM  - 1:30 PM Round Table on Customer and Generative Art: the Quality

12/16 Dec. 2000 - 10.00 AM / 7:00 PM
Exhibition Hall of Architecture Faculty
• Exhibition GA2000
Besides posters and artworks by people presenting papers and performances:
Form generation and evolutionary development of mathematical forms, Robert J. Krawczyk,  Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, Antonio Pozzi, GenLab Politecnico Milano, Italy, Alessandra Venino, GenLab Politecnico Milano, Italy, )Sensitive spatial organisM( , Emilia Castellani, Francesco Deriu, Italy, Yoshiyuki Abe, Japan,  Matjaz Hmeljak, Italy, Jean-Pierre Hebert, California, Francesco Martin, Italy, A. Spizzichino, Italy