Dear Colleagues,

Colin Johnson, Juan Romero and Tiago Martins will publish a Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence and Complexity in Art, Music, Games and Design II” for the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design.

Journal: Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300), section “Complexity”
JCR Journal with Impact factor: 2.524 (Q2)
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021

Special Issue URL: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/ai_complexity_II
Instructions for authors: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/instructions
Volume I: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/ai_complexity

A major—potentially unachievable—challenge in computational arts is constructing algorithms that assess properties such as novelty, creativity and the aesthetic properties of artistic artefacts or performances. Approaches to this have often been based on broadly information-theoretic ideas. For example, ideas linking mathematical notions of form and balance to beauty date back to ancient times. In the twentieth century, attempts were made to produce aesthetic measures based on ideas of a balance between order and complexity. In more recent years, these have been formalised into ideas of aesthetic engagement happening when work is at the “edge of chaos” between excessive order and excessive disorder, formalising this using notions such as Gini coefficient and Shannon entropy, and links between cognitive theories of the Bayesian brain and free energy minimisation with aesthetic theories. These ideas have been used both for understanding human behaviour and building creative systems.

The use of artificial intelligence and complex systems for the development of artistic systems is an exciting and relevant area of research. There is a growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields, such as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation, sound synthesis, architecture, video, poetry, design, game content generation, and other creative tasks.

This Special Issue will focus on both the use of complexity ideas and artificial intelligence methods to analyse and evaluate aesthetic properties and to drive systems that generate aesthetically engaging artefacts, including but not limited to: music, sound, images, animations, designs, architectural plans, choreographies, poetry, text, jokes, etc.

Dr. Colin Johnson
Dr. Juan Romero
Tiago Martins

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