Recent Publications

This is a selection of recent publications by members of the Creative Systems Lab, many of which are downloadable in PDF format.

Books

M. A. Boden (2004) The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. London: Routledge (2nd edition, revised & expanded).

M. A. Boden (1994), Ed., Dimensions of Creativity. London: MIT Press.

Book-extracts

M. A. Boden (2006) 'Explaining the Ineffable', Chapter 13.iv of M. A. Boden (2006) Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science. Oxford: OUP/Clarendon Press.

Papers

J. Bird and D. Stokes and P. Husbands and P. Brown and B. Bigge (forthcoming) 'Towards Autonomous Artworks', Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

M. A. Boden (forthcoming) 'Creativity and Artificial Evolution'. In J. Copeland and R.
Brooks (Eds.) Creativity, Mathematics, and Computers (provisional title), to be published by Templeton Press/MIT Press. (PDF)

P. Brown, B. Bigge, J. Bird, P. Husbands, M. Perris, D. Stokes (forthcoming) 'The Drawbots', Proceedings of Mutamorphosis 2007, Prague.

T. Magnusson (forthcoming) 'The Acoustic, the Digital and the Body: A Survey on Musical Instruments', Proceedings of NIME 2007, New York.

D. Stokes (forthcoming) 'An Aesthetics of Creativity'. In K. Stock and K. Thompson-Jones  (Eds.) New Waves in Aesthetics, Ashgate Publishers.

D. Stokes and J. Bird (forthcoming) 'Evolutionary Robotics and Creative Constraints'. In B. Hardy-Vallée and N. Payette (Eds.) Beyond the Brain: Embodied, Situated and Distributed Cognition, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

C. Thornton (forthcoming) 'A Quantitative Reconstruction of Boden's Creativity Theory'. Artificial Intelligence.

J. Bird and E. Di Paolo (in press) 'Gordon Pask and his Maverick Machines'. In P. Husbands and M. Wheeler (Eds.) The Mechanization of Mind in History. MIT Press.

M. A. Boden (in press) 'Aesthetics and Interactive Art'. In C. Makris, R. L. Chrisley, R. W. Clowes and M. A. Boden (Eds.) Art, Body, Embodiment, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle. (PDF)

M. A. Boden (in press) 'Authenticity and Computer Art'. In P. Brown (Ed.) Computational Creativity (provisional title), Leonardo: Cambridge, MA. (PDF)

M. A. Boden (in press) 'Stillness and Autonomy'. In Proceedings of CADE-2007, Perth. (PDF)

J. Bird and M. d’Inverno and J. Prophet (2007) 'Net Work: An Interactive Artwork Designed Using an Interdisciplinary Performative Approach', Digital Creativity, 18(1), pp. 11-23. (PDF)

J. Bird and D. Stokes (2007) 'Minimal Creativity, Evaluation and Pattern Discrimination'. In A. Cardoso and G. Wiggins (Eds.) Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Creativity, pp. 121-128. (PDF)

N. Collins (2007) 'Matching Parts: Inner Voice Led Control for Symbolic and Audio Accompaniment'. Proceedings of NIME 2007, New York. (PDF)

P. Husbands and P. Copley and A. Eldridge and J. Mandelis (2007) 'An Introduction to Evolutionary Computing for Musicians'. Chapter 1 in E. R. Miranda and J. A. Biles (Eds.) Evolutionary Computer Music, Springer, pp. 1-27.

D. Stokes (2007) 'Incubated Cognition and Creativity', Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14, pp. 83-100.

C. Thornton (2007) 'How thinking inside the box can become thinking outside the box'. In A. Cardoso and G. Wiggins (Eds.) Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Creativity, pp. 113-119.

J. Bird (2006) 'Paul Granjon – Fluffy Tamagotchi'. In G. Ashkram (Ed.) Game/Play Catalogue, Quad Publishing, pp. 36-37. (PDF)

J. Bird (2006) 'Paul Granjon: A 21st Century Bestiary'. In H. Adams (Ed.) Re:Imaging Wales - A Yearbook of the Visual Arts, Seren: Bridgend, Wales, p. 34.

J. Bird and M. d’Inverno and J. Prophet (2006) 'Net Work: Lessons from collaboratively designing an interactive artwork'. In C. Soddu (Ed.) Generative Art 2006 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, pp. 309-316.

J. Bird and D. Stokes (2006) Evolving Fractal Drawings. In C. Soddu (Ed.) Generative Art 2006 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, pp. 317-327. (PDF)

J. Bird and D. Stokes (2006) 'Evolving Minimally Creative Robots'. In S. Colton and A. Pease (Eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity (ECAI ’06), pp. 1-5. (PDF)

M. A. Boden (2006) 'Creativity and Conceptual Art'. In P. Goldie and E. Schellekens
(Eds.) Philosophy and Conceptual Art, OUP: Oxford. (PDF)

S. Bullock and T. Smith and J. Bird (2006) 'Picture this: The state of the art in visualization for complex adaptive systems', Artificial Life, 12(2), pp. 189-192.

A.C. Eldridge (2006) 'Issues in Auditory Display'. Artificial Life, 12(2), pp. 258-274. (PDF)

M. Jungmann and R. Lutz and N. Villar and P. Husbands and G. Fitzpatrick (2006) Exploring the Boundaries between Perception and Action in an Interactive System. In B. Bardy and D. Mottet (Eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Enactive Interfaces 2006, University of Montpellier: Montpellier, p. 165. (PDF)

T. Magnusson (2006) 'Affordances and Constraints in Screen-Based Musical Instruments', ACM Proceedings of NordiCHI, Oslo. (PDF)

T. Magnusson (2006) 'Screen-Based Musical Instruments as Semiotic-Machines', Proceedings of NIME 2006, IRCAM: Paris. (PDF)

J. Mandelis and P. Husbands (2006) 'Genophone: Evolving Sounds and Integral Performance Parameter Mappings',  International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 15(4), pp. 599-621.  (PDF)

D. Stokes (2006) ‘Art and Modal Knowledge’. In M. Kieran and D. Lopes (Eds.) Knowing Art: Essays in Epistemology and Aesthetics, Springer Press.

J. Bird and B. Bigge and M. Blow and R. Brown and E. Clive and R. Easton and T. Grimsey and G. Haslett and A. Webster (2005) 'There does not, in fact, appear to be a plan: A collaborative experiment in creative robotics'. In T. Hirst and A. Green (Eds.) Proceedings of the Symposium on Robotics, Mechatronics and Animatronics in the Creative and Entertainment Industries and Arts, AISB, pp. 58-65. (PDF)

A.C. Eldridge (2005) 'Cyborg dancing: generative systems for man machine musical improvisation', Proceedings of Third Iteration, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 129-141. (PDF)

A.C. Eldridge (2005) 'Fond Punctions: Generative Processes in Live Improvised Performance', Proceedings of Generative Arts Practice,Sydney, Australia, pp. 41-51. (PDF)

A.C. Eldridge (2005) 'ExtraMusic(ologic)al Algorithms for Automated composition'. In F. Rothlauf et al (Eds.) Evomusart workshops 2005, LNCS 3449, Springer Press, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 557-562. (PDF)

T. Magnusson (2005) 'ixi software: The Interface as Instrument', Proceedings of NIME 2005, University of British Columbia: Vancouver. (PDF)

T. Magnusson (2005) 'ixi software: Open Controllers for Open Source Software', Proceedings of ICMC 2005, University of Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona. (PDF)

A. Webster and J. Bird and G. Monaghan (2005) 'Experiments in open-ended curation'. In J. Gibbons and K. Winwood (Eds.) Hothaus Papers: Perspectives and Paradigms in Media Arts, VIVID/Article Press: Birmingham, pp. 201-208. (PDF)

J. Bird (2004) 'Containing reality: Epistemological issues in generative art and science'. In J. McCormack (Ed.) Impossible Nature (Artist’s Monograph), Australian Centre for the Moving Image: Melbourne, pp. 40-53.

M. A. Boden (2004) 'Creativity in a Nutshell', reprinted from pp. 1-10 of M. A. Boden (2004) The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. (PDF)

J. Bird and J. Faith, J. and A. Webster (2003) 'Tabula Rasa: a case study in evolutionary curation'. In G.R. Raidl and J-A. Meyer and M. Middenhorf and S. Cagnoni and J. J. R. Cardalda and D. Corne and J. Gottlieb and A. Guillot and E. Hart and C. G. Johnson and E. Marchiori (Eds.) Applications of Evolutionary Computing, EvoWorkshop 2003: EvoBIO, EvoCOP, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, EvoROB and EvoSTIM, Essex, UK, April 14-16, 2003, pp. 479-489. (PDF)

J. Bird and P. Layzell and A. Webster and P. Husbands (2003) 'Towards epistemically autonomous robots: Exploiting the potential of physical systems', Leonardo, 36(2), pp. 109-114. (PDF)

M. A. Boden (2003) 'Are Autodidacts Creative?'. In J. Solomon (Ed.) The Passion to Learn: An Inquiry Into Autodidactism, RoutledgeFalmer: London, pp. 24-31. (PDF)

A. Gartland-Jones and P. Copley (2003) 'The Suitability of Genetic Algorithms for Musical Composition', Contemporary Musical Review, 22 (3), pp. 43-55. (PDF)

J. Mandelis and P. Husbands (2003) 'Musical Interaction with Artificial Life Forms: Sound Synthesis and Performance Mappings'. Contemporary Music Review, 22(3), pp. 69-77. (PDF)

A.C. Eldridge (2002) 'Adaptive Systems Music: Algorithmic Process as Musical Form'. In C. Soddu (Ed.) Proceedings of Generative Art, Milan, 2002. (PDF)

C. Thornton (2002) 'Creativity and Runaway Learning. In T. Dartnall (Ed.) Creativity, Cognition and Knowledge, Praeger: London, pp. 239-250.

J. Bird and A. Webster (2001) 'The Blurring of Art and Alife'. In A. Dorin (Ed.) Proceedings of Second Iteration, CEMA, Melbourne, pp. 38-46. (PDF)

M. A. Boden (2000) 'Crafts, Perception, and the Possibilities of the Body', British Journal of Aesthetics, 40, pp. 289-301. (PDF)

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