GA2002
Generative Art and Design Conference,

Politecnico di Milano University, Italy , Milan 11-12-13 December 2002

Program



10th December 2002

Sala Mostre, Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano University.
Via Ampere (near Piola Underground Station of Green Line)

6:30 pm
Welcome Cocktail

11th December 2002

Aula Rogers, Aula Magna of the faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano University
Via Ampere 2

• 9:30
Opening GA2002 Conference
Giulio Ballio, Rector of Politecnico di Milano University
Giuseppe Turchini, Dean of VI Faculty of Engineering/Architecture
Ettore Zambelli, President of Course of Studies Council of VI Faculty
Celestino Soddu, Chairman of Generative Art Conference

• 10:00          
“La citta’ ideale”, Generative Codes Design Identity
Celestino Soddu
Director of Generative Design Lab, DiAP
Politecnico di Milano University, Italy

• 10:20          
Instance and System: a Figure and its 218 Variations
H. E. Dehlinger
Kunsthochschule Kassel, University of Kassel, Germany

• 10:40
Generative and Evolutionary Techniques for Building Envelope Design
John Frazer, Tang Mingxi, Patrick Janssen
Design Technology Research Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China SAR,
Julia Frazer
Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London
Liu Xiyu
DTRC and Shandong Normal University, PRC

• 11:00
Quinsan Ciao
Ball State University, USA

• 11:20
Coffee Break at Poster and Artwork Exhibition

• 11:40
Figura, Aura uniqueness
Enrica Colabella
Generative Design Lab, DiAP
Politecnico di Milano University, Italy

• 12:00
Generative Art: Multi-Modal Meanings
Howard Riley
School of Art and Design, Swansea Institute, University of Wales

• 12:20
Arms, Wings, & Mechanical Things. analogue…assimilation…appropriation
Anthony Viscardi
Department of Art and Architecture, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,USA

• 12:40
The generate method of Multi-storey Chinese Pagodas
Tang Zhong, Zhang Yijie
Tongji University, Shanghai, China

• 13:30
Lunch at PUB, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci

• 15:00
Constructing Distributed Fretted Instruments for the Web
Jônatas Manzolli
Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Sound Studies - NICS, Music Department, Arts Faculty , UNICAMP, BRAZIL.
Fernando Lindner Ramos
Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Sound Studies - NICS, Institute of Computing , UNICAMP, BRAZIL.
Frederick Carrilho
Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Sound Studies - NICS, Music Department, Arts Faculty , UNICAMP, BRAZIL.

• 15:20
Narrative Spaces: bridging architecture and entertainment via interactive technology
Flavia Sparacino
MIT Media Lab, Boston, USA

• 15:40
A generative design system based on evolutionary and mathematical functions
Liu Xiyu
Design Technology Research Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
and
School of Information and Management, Shandong Normal University, P.R. China
John Hamilton Frazer
Director of the Design Technology Research Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Tang Ming Xi
Design Technology Research Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• 16:00
pCM (pure C Music): a real-time music language
Leonello Tarabella
computerART  Project, Istituto A.Faedo ISTI/C.N.R,  Area della Ricerca di Pisa

• 16:20
Coffee Break at Poster and Artwork Exhibition

• 16:40
Exploring Aesthetic Pattern Formation
Katie A Bentley
Computer Science Department, University College London.

• 17:00
Algorithmic process for time-base arts
Yoshiyuki Abe
Artist, Tokyo, Japan
Akemi Ishijima
Composer, London

• 17:20
Modular Perspective as a Method for Generative Design
Tomás García-Salgado
Faculty of Architecture, National Autonomous University of México.

• 17:40
Design from Known to New -Issues of Generative Architecture under Digital Environment-
Shuenn.-Ren Liou
Department of Architecture, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.

• 18:00
1st Poster session

Daniel Oberti, Sebastopol, CA, US
Stefano Milani, Arek Seredyn , Rotterdam
Massimo Fontana, Italy
Andrea Polli, Hunter College, Film and Media New York        
Andrew Landford, University College Northampton   
Bernard Caillaud, Paris, France
Carlo Coppola, Universita' di Napoli
Claudio Parrini, Ferry Byte e Mirella Castigli, Italy               
Diego Diaz, Laboratorio de Luz. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Spain.
Domiziana Giordano, Digital Sisters Indeed, Italy
Ergian Alberg, Netherlands.        

• 20:00
Conference Dinner


12th December 2002
Aula Rogers, Aula Magna of the faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano University
Via Ampere

• 9:30
Interaction between conscious operations and unconscious driver in creative processes
Enrico G. Botta
QuArch, Italy

• 9:50
GenOrchestra: An Interactive Evolutionary Agent for Musical Composition
Fabio De Felice, Fabio Abbattista.
VALIS Group, Dipartimento di Informatica,Università di Bari, Italy.
Francesco Scagliola.
Conservatorio di Musica “N. Piccinni”, Bari, Italy.

• 10:10
Can a Genetic Algorithm Think Like a Composer?
Andrew Gartland-Jones
Computational Creativity Research Group, The University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

• 10:30
Human-Artificial Ecosystem: searching for a language
M. Annunziato, P. Pierucci
Plancton Art Studio, Italy

• 10:50
Applied Generative Procedures in Furniture Design
Markus Schein
Department of Product-Design, University of Kassel, Germany

• 11:10
Coffee Break at Poster and Artwork Exhibition

• 11:30
Euro-China exchange: technology and culture of Generative Design approach
Program financially supported by European Commission

GeneDIP-Net. Generative Design and Intelligent production network
Network of Excellence to be presented to VI Framework of European Commission.

Celestino Soddu
Coordinator of the programs, Generative Design Lab, DiAP, Politecnico di Milano
Quinsan Ciao
Co-coordinator, Generative Design Lab, DiAP, Politecnico di Milano
Enrica Colabella
Manager, Generative Design Lab, DiAP, Politecnico di Milano
Hans Dehlinger
Partner, Kassel University
Wang Bowei
Partner, Dean of Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Changming Yang
Partner, Dean of Tianjin University, China
Aant van der Zee
Eindhoven Technological University
Giancarlo Spinelli
Director of CRI, Politecnico di Milano University
Dora Longoni
CRI, Politecnico di Milano University

• 13:30
Lunch at PUB, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci

• 15:00
GenJam in Transition: from Genetic Jammer to Generative Jammer
John A. Biles
Information Technology Department, Rochester Institute of Technology

• 15:20
Computation-Universal Voxel Automata as Material for Generative Design Education
Thomas Fischer
School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• 15:40
Architectural Interpretation of Cellular Automata
Robert J. Krawczyk
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA.

• 16:00
Pseudo-urban automatic pattern generation
Renato Saleri Lunazzi
Laboratoire MAP aria UMR 694 CNRS – Ministère de la culture et de la Communication, France

• 16:20
Interacting unities: an agent-based system
P. Eleni, A. Turner, R. Thum
Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, London, UK.

• 16:40
Generative Architectural Design and Complexity Theory
Christiane M. Herr
Department of Architecture, Hong Kong University.

• 17:00
Adaptive Systems Music: Musical structures from algorithmic process
Alice C. Eldridge
School of cognitive and computing sciences, University of Sussex, UK

• 17:20
Computer Aided Evolutionary Architectural design
Aant van de Zee, B. de Vries
Faculty of Building and Architecture, Design Systems Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

• 17:40
Using Social Interaction in Generative Design of  Shared Virtual Spaces
Nicole Schadewitz, Timothy Jachna
School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Raewyn Turner
Multi-senses Artist, Auckland, New Zealand

• 18:00
2nd Poster Session

Jody Zellen, Santa Monica, Ca, US
Joesér Alvarez, Porto Vehlo, Brazil                   
Lane Last, University of Tennessee, US
Lukasz Lysakowski, Poland
Matjaz Hmeljak, Italy         
Peter McLeish, Quebec, Canada, video "Lightnings`s Angels" sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts: Inter-Arts: Program
Reiner Strasser, Germany                                              
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Thailand                    
Valentina Loi, IT                 
Zeljko Blace, Multimedia Institute in Zagreb

• 20:00
Aula Magna S01, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci

Performances

John A. Biles
Information Technology Department, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jônatas Manzolli
Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Sound Studies - NICS
Music Department, Arts Faculty , UNICAMP, BRAZIL
Gabriel Maldonado, Enrica Colabella, Celestino Soddu
Italy
Luca Tanzini
Universita’ di Siena
Nina Ntt, Caen Botto
Italy, Argentina
Bogdan Soban
Live Image Generator, Slovenia

13th December 2002

• 9:30
The imaginary unit: a key disclosing new dimensions in space/time
Giuseppe Caglioti
Politecnico di Milano University

• 9:50
On Morphogenesis
Giulio Giorello
Universita’ Statale di Milano

• 10:10
Spatial Forms Generated by Music – The Case Study
Mirjana Devetakovic Radojevic
Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
• 10:30
Projeto Missões, Computação Gráfica. Multimídia da Reconstituição Computadorizada da Redução de São, Miguel Arcanjo no Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil  
Isabel A. Medero Rocha, Voltaire Danckwardt
Núcleo de Computação Gráfica,   Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas,   Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos. Unisinos. São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul , Brasil

• 10:50
The Side Effect of a Generative Experiment
Joanna Kabala
The Netherlands

• 11:10
Coffee Break at Poster and Artwork Exhibition

• 11:30
The Evolving Role of the Artist
Jamy Sheridan
Chairman Department of Experimental Animation. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, USA

• 11:50
A collaborative platform supporting graphic pattern design and reuse of design knowledge
Wu Yingfei, Tang Mingxi, John Hamilton Frazer,
Design Technology Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, PRC
Sun Shouqian, PanYunhe
Modern Industry Design Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PRC

• 12:10
An Informal Shape Grammars for Interpolations of Traditional Bosnian Hayat Houses in a Contemporary Context
Birgul Colakoglu
Yildiz Technical University, Department of Architecture

• 12:30
Pursuing New Urban Living Environment In The New Millennium: Projecting The Future Of High-Rise And High Density Living In Hong Kong
Wang Xu, Lau Siu Yu
Center for Architecture & Urban Design, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong

• 12:50
Shared, Collective, Generative, Dynamic Virtual Environments
Riccardo Antonini
Consorzio Roma Ricerche, Universita’ di Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy

• 13:30
Lunch at PUB, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci

• 15:00
Architectural Forms by Abstracting Nature
Kamon Jirapong
Faculty of Architecture, Sripatum University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Robert J. Krawczyk
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

• 15:20
Urban ecomorphic environments
Alasdair Turner
Barlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, London, UK

• 15:40
Creative Multimedia: the commodity of the 21st
Ahmad Rafi M. E
Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, 63100 Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

• 16:00
Coffee Break at Poster and Artwork Exhibition

• 16:20
Round table, open discussion

• 18:00
3rd Poster session (second presentation for discussion)

Daniel Oberti, Sebastopol, CA, US
Stefano Milani, Arek Seredyn , Rotterdam
Massimo Fontana, Italy
Andrea Polli, Hunter College, Film and Media New York        
Andrew Landford, University College Northampton   
Bernard Caillaud, Paris, France
Carlo Coppola, Universita' di Napoli
Claudio Parrini, Ferry Byte e Mirella Castigli, Italy               
Diego Diaz, Laboratorio de Luz. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Spain.
Domiziana Giordano, Digital Sisters Indeed, Italy
Ergian Alberg, Netherlands.        
Jody Zellen, Santa Monica, Ca, US
Joesér Alvarez, Porto Vehlo, Brazil                   
Lane Last, University of Tennessee, US
Lukasz Lysakowski, Poland
Matjaz Hmeljak, Italy         
Peter McLeish, Quebec, Canada, video "Lightnings`s Angels" sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts: Inter-Arts: Program

Reiner Strasser, Germany                                              
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Thailand                    
Valentina Loi, IT                 
Zeljko Blace, Multimedia Institute in Zagreb

• 20:00
Aula Magna S01, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci
Performances

Michael P. White
Chicago, US
Leonello Tarabella
computerART  Project, Istituto A.Faedo ISTI/C.N.R,  Area della Ricerca di Pisa
Marco Cardini
Cart Lab of CNR Pisa, Italy
Simone Merli, Paolo Lucchi
Milan, Italy
Duccio Domini
Italy
Steven Noll
New York, USA