[agents] CFP Evolutionary Art, Design, and Creativity Competition at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)

[Amy K. Hoover]

Evolutionary Art, Design, and Creativity Competition

                 to be held as part of the

 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)
                July 7-11, Philadelphia, PA, USA

                 Organized by ACM SIGEVO
              http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012

 Submission Deadline for this competition: June 15, 2012



The Evolutionary Art, Design, and Creativity Competition at the Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation Conference showcases the power of evolutionary
computation through human-quality artistic works or creativity enhancing
experiences generated by or with the assistance of evolution. Entries can
be music, images, sculptures, videos, or interactive online experiences,
but are not limited to these forms of expression; the goal is that the
submissions exhibit some form of independent creativity through genetic and
evolutionary computation.

==Entry Submission==

Entrants must submit: (1) a brief artistic statement illustrating the
concept, (2) a short paper describing the technical details and the
evolutionary algorithm, and (3) a set of multimedia files, either 5 still
images, a video of up to 5 minutes, or a sound file of up to 5 minutes,
that demonstrates the output quality of the evolutionary process.  All
submissions should be sent to ahoover at eecs.ucf.edu by June 15, 2012.

==Evaluation==

The submissions will be evaluated by a jury of researchers from the
evolutionary computation and the technological arts communities. Each
submission will be judged on the following criteria:
artistic or design merit, innovation, creativity, technical quality, and
relevance.

==Presentation==

Finalists selected by the jury will be invited to present their submission
at the competition session, held during the GECCO conference.The winner of
the competition will be announced at the SIGEVO meeting ceremony, on July
11, 2012.

==Important Dates==

* Submission deadline: June 15, 2012
* Conference: July 07-11, 2012

==Organizers==

Christian Gagné, Université Laval
Amy K. Hoover, University of Central Florida
Jon McCormack, Monash University

==Jury==

* Peter J. Bentley, Department of Computer Science, University College
London
* Simon Colton, Computational Creativity Group, Department of Computing,
Imperial College, London
* Palle Dahlstedt, Department of Applied IT & The Academy of Music and
Drama, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
* William Latham, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths' College, University
of London
* Geraint A. Wiggins, Intelligent Sound and Music Systems, Centre for
Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London


GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ACM SIGEVO).