An interactive electronic art system based on artificial ecosystemics

Author

Kowaliw, Taras ; McCormack, Jon ; Dorin, Alan

Author_Institution

Centre Nat. de la Rech. Sci., Inst. des Syst. Complexes - Paris Ile-de-France, Paris, France

fYear

2011

fDate

11-15 April 2011

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

169

Abstract

In this paper, we explore a generative art system designed to promote the creation of a diverse range of aesthetically pleasing images. We introduce our system, EvoEco, an agent-based pixel-level means of generating images based on artificial ecosystems. This art system is driven by interactive evolutionary computation, and further augmented using special measures to promote the diversity of the individuals. Following previous work, we explore a tractable definition of creativity and its addition to this interactive search. EvoEco was released online, and used by forty-one anonymous users to generate artwork. Here we present some of the discovered results.

Keywords

ecology; evolutionary computation; image processing; interactive systems; natural sciences computing; EvoEco; aesthetically pleasing images; agent-based pixel-level; artificial ecosystemics; interactive electronic art system; interactive evolutionary computation; interactive search; Art; Ecosystems; Genomics; History; Image color analysis; Pixel; Interactive evolution; artificial ecosystem; computational creativity; electronic art; generative art;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Artificial Life (ALIFE), 2011 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

2160-6374

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-062-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954645

Filename

5954645