Günter Bachelier

1967 born in Völklingen (Germany)
1988 Study of Information Science, Cognitive Psychology and Information Logistics at the University of Saarland (Saarbrücken, Germany)
1995 Magister Artium M.A. in Information Science about Selforganizing Maps (Kohonen maps) in Information Retrieval
2002 Ph.D. in Information Science about Machine Learning in extended Vector Space Models in Information Retrieval
2003 Lectureship in Information Science at the University Saarland since 2004 freelance artist and building up the enterprise "Dr. Bachelier AROSHU ® Health Art"

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Tim Blackwell

Tim Blackwell graduated in physics from Bristol University and received a Ph.D from Sussex University for research in discrete quantum field theory. He was a research assistant at Imperial College, London and the University of Glasgow before leaving academia to spend time developing musical interests. He founded a jazz school in Edinburgh in the 1990s and moved to London in 2000 where he took an MSc in Computing at University College. His MSc thesis on the application of swarms to improvised music led to a number of publications and he returned to research in 2003 with a lectureship at Goldsmiths College. He is the Goldsmiths principal investigator for the EPSRC funded Extended Particle Swarms project and the Live Algorithms for Music research network. His digital art works have been exhibited at galleries in Budapest, New York and London and he regularly performs with live algorithms.

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John Philip Collomosse

John Collomosse holds a first class BSc honours degree in Computer Science and a PhD in the field of Image and Video-based Non-photorealistic Rendering. He has been a member of the Media Technology Research Centre at the University of Bath since 2001, where he completed his PhD prior to appointment as lecturer (asst. professor) in 2004.
His research interests lie in the convergence area between Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, specifically in the analysis of images and video to extract semantic representations of salient scene content and dynamics.
Application areas focus on information retrieval (e.g. video search and summarisation), and in particular the problem of non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) from two-dimensional content.

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Michel da Costa Gonçalves

Michel da Costa Gonçalves studied in France and Spain before graduating from the Emergent Technologies & Design postgraduate programme at the Architectural Association. Author and collection director of architecture books at 'Editions Autrement', he was Project Manager for Shigeru Ban Architects and Architecture Studio on a variety of prominent projects until 2005, when he co-founded r_ar|e. The practice develops prospective approaches to architecture, processes and materials with an interest in introducing a sustainable conception from the scale of object to the urban.

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Alan Dorin

Alan Dorin is a generative artist working in electronic media and a researcher in Artificial Life and Computer Animation. His interests include Applied Mathematics; Animation & Interactive Media; Biology (artificial/synthetic and natural); Computer Science; History; Mechanics; Music; Philosophy; Self-assembly; Visual Art and the links that bind all fields together. Alan is co-director of the Centre for Electronic Media Art at Monash University in Australia and an organizer of the international Iteration conference series on generative electronic art. He spends his spare time in the outdoors racing bicycles and climbing mountains.

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Scott Draves

Scott Draves a.k.a. Spot is a software artist residing in San Francisco. He is the creator of the Fractal Flame algorithm, the Bomb visual-musical instrument, and the Electric Sheep distributed screen-saver. All of Draves' software artworks are released as open source and distributed for free on the internet. His award-winning work has appeared in Wired Magazine, the Prix Ars Electronica, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and on the dance-floor at the Sonar festival in Barcelona. In 1997 Spot received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University for a thesis on metaprogramming for media processing. He projects live video for underground parties and at clubs, and self-publishes SPOTWORKS, a DVD of abstract animation synchronized with electronic music. His current project is Dreams in High Fidelity, a painting that evolves.

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A. E. Eiben

Address:
Department of Computer Science
Free University Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081a
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail: gusz [at] cs.vu.nl
Web: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gusz/

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Charlie D. Frowd

Charlie Frowd is a Research Fellow in the Psychology Department at the University of Stirling. He developed the first version of the EvoFIT facial composite system as part of his Ph.D. and has been improving it ever since. His research involves improving the quality of facial composites from composite systems in general, an approach which considers both the technology and the processes used with witnesses. He is also interested in how we process familiar and unfamiliar faces. Charlie is currently a Co-investigator on 2 EPSRC grants, one to develop EvoFIT, making it more responsive to the needs of a witness, and one to develop a version of EvoFIT as an exhibit to the Sensation Science Centre, Dundee, as part of a Partnerships for Public Engagement (PPE) project.

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Steven R. Fuchs

Steven Fuchs is a graduate of the digital architecture track M.Arch2 program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) led by architects Hernan-Diaz Alonso, Marcelo Spina and theorist Michael Speaks. His Masters Thesis, 'Coversion: Interactive Architectural Solution Networks', argues for creating a massively participatory network platform to radically challenge architectural expertise, of which, the 'Butterfly Machines' project is one experiment. He has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National & California Chapters as an "emerging professional" for being a leader in challenging the structure of architecture internship and taking introspective looks at the profession-architects as design currency. Currently, Steven works for Panelite | Los Angeles as a design & fabrication manager and is studying to be a licensed architect to balance his academic research with professional practice.

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Philip Galanter

Philip Galanter is an independent artist holding an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, and a B.A. in Philosophy. Previously he was the Associate Director for Arts Technology at New York University. At NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program he created the course "Foundations of Generative Art Systems". His current artistic work includes creating generative hardware systems, video installations, digital fine art prints, and light-box transparencies. As a curator he collaborated with others on "ArtBots - the Robotic Talent Show" in 2002 and 2003, as well as on "COMPLEXITY", the first touring fine art exhibition addressing art and complex systems.

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Gary R. Greenfield

Gary Greenfield is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Richmond.

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Niall J.L. Griffith

Niall Griffith received a BA Hons degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1972. He initially researched prehistoric economies. He took an MSc in Intelligent Knowledge Based systems at Essex University specialising in the application of AI to Music. He was awarded his PhD in 1994 by Exeter University for research on musical pitch class abstraction using collaborating self-organizing neural networks. Between 1994 and 1996 he researched the use of neural networks in software engineering and supervised the development of a prototype smart card based patient record.
In 1996 He moved to a lectureship in Computer Science at the University of Limerick. His principle research interests are in the area of machine learning, computational musicology and media performance systems with the aim of understanding the relationship between perceptual systems, cognition and the use of tools and to apply this understanding to the design of novel musical systems and instruments.

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Peter J.B. Hancock

Peter Hancock is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling. His PhD in Computing Science looked at the application of Genetic Algorithms to the design of Neural Nets. He moved on to study human face perception and the extent to which it might be explained by principal components analysis of face images. The combination of face PCA and Genetic Algorithms led to the idea behind EvoFIT. He has subsequently researched ways to further improve recall of face information by witnesses. He is also interested in evolutionary approaches to the understanding of human behaviour and in the role of temporal synchrony in the binding problem in early vision.

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Amaury Hazan

Amaury Hazan is a PhD Candidate at the Pompeu Fabra University. His Reserach interests include machine learning, evolutionary computing, and computer music.

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Martin Hemberg

Martin Hemberg is a post-graduate student in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. His main research interests are in developing and applying stochastic models for biological problems. He is also interested in network models and the behavior of stochastic models constrained to networks. Since 2003 he has been working as a tutor at the Emergent Design and Technologies programme at the Architectural Association.

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Gerald Hushlak

Professor Hushlak received his MFA from the Royal College of Art London England in 1973. Subsequent to this he studied at the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary and the University of California at Berkeley. In July of 1975 Gerald Hushlak joined the Department of Art at the University of Calgary and currently is a Full Professor. Administratively he served as Chairman of the Department of Art between 1997 to 2004.
Professor Hushlak is currently researching stereo 3-D printing, and 5-axis computer milling at a scale of several meters. He is affiliated with a research group in computer science using Swarm Intelligence (SwarmArt.com) for computer visualization. He is also affiliated with (SurveillanceArt.com), research team applying surveillance imagery toward art visualization and large scale plotting.
Professor Hushlak also exhibits large scale modular paintings and computer art in public museums (several dozen venues).

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Christian Jacob

Dr. Jacob received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. In July 1999, Dr. Jacob joined the Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Science) at the University of Calgary. Since August 2003, he also holds a joint appointment with the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (Faculty of Medicine), where he is the Director of Bioinformatics in the Bachelor of Health Sciences Program.
Dr. Jacob leads the Evolutionary & Swarm Design (ESD) research group within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary.
Dr. Jacob and his research group are investigating how to apply evolutionary, swarm and collective intelligence techniques in various application domains. So far, the ESD research group has built mathematical models, computer simulations and visualizations of traffic systems, army ants, neuron growth, biomolecular, and gene regulatory systems. Some of the projects are described in detail at the ESD website.
Dr. Jacob has written two books on evolutionary computing and natural programming paradigms: Principia Evolvica (dpunkt, Heidelberg, 1997; in German) and Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica (Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2001).

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Katrin Jonas

Katrin Jonas has a Master degree in Emergent Technology and Design from the Architectural Association. She worked with Buro Happold, a multidisciplinary, international Engineering practice, before commencing the Research Engineering program with the company and the Architecture and Computer Science department at University College London. At Buro Happold she is involved in the analysis andengineering of complex structures. Her research topic is the implementation of multiple objectives into a form generating process using evolutionary techniques.

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Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis is a computer graphics researcher and artist at The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at The Ohio State University.
Dr. Lewis has taught graduate courses in the College of the Arts on interactive performance and installation technologies, virtual environments, 3D animation, digital lighting, and procedural animation. He has presented research work on evolutionary design at conferences in Switzerland, Italy, and Portugal. His artwork has appeared on the cover of the journal Leonardo and has been exhibited in New York, Korea, Japan, France, Australia, and the UK.

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Penousal Machado

Penousal Machado holds an Engineering degree on Informatics, a MSc on Information systems and Technology, and a PhD in the field of Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the A.I. - Lab of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra since 1996, and a lecturer (auxiliary professor) of the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra.
His research interests lie in areas such as Evolutionary Art, Evolutionary Computation, and Computational Creativity. In particular, he is interested in the application of evolutionary computation techniques to the development of artificial artists and computer aided creativity systems. He is the author of approximately 50 papers in the fields of Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Art and Artificial Creativity and chaired several scientific events on Evolutionary and Artificial Art.

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Isabelle Mahnich

Isabelle Mahnich graduated from the computer science department of the Polytechnic Engineers School. Her research interests are focused on music generation and new technologies.

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Bill Manaris

Bill Manaris is an associate professor of Computer Science at the College of Charleston. His interests include human computer interaction and artificial intelligence. He currently explores statistical, connectionist, and evolutionary techniques in computer music and art with an emphasis on computer modeling of aesthetics.
Earlier research includes development of natural language and speech user interfaces. He has been supported by NSF and the Louisiana Board of Regents. He has more than 40 journal and conference publications.
Manaris is Associate Editor of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, and has served as chair of several conferences and special tracks. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Orleans (1986), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana (1988 and 1990). Dr. Manaris is a member of ACM, IEEE CS Society, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.

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Jordi Mariné

Jordi Mariné is a Computer Science student at the Pompeu Fabra University. His research interests include genetic algorithms and computer music.

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Jon McCormack

Jon McCormack is an artist, academic and researcher, specialising in evolutionary and artificial life approaches to artistic creativity.

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James McDermott

James McDermott holds a BSc in Computer Science with Mathematics from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and is currently studying for a PhD in Music Technology in the University of Limerick. His research interests include evolutionary computation, sound synthesis and analysis, audio perception, and software synthesizer interfaces.

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Achim Menges

Prof. Achim Menges is an architect and partner in OCEAN NORTH and the Emergence and Design Group. He studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany and graduated from the AA School of Architecture with Honors. He has been a visiting professor at Rice University School of Architecture, Houston and is currently Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and Professor at the HfG in Offenbach. Achim Menges research focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of evolutionary computation, parametric design, biomimetic engineering and computer aided manufacturing that enable a highly articulated, performative built environment. His research projects have been published in Europe, Asia and the United States. Achim Menges recently received the FEIDAD (Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design) Outstanding Design Award in 2002, the FEIDAD Design Merit Award in 2003, the Archiprix International Award 2003, RIBA Tutor Price 2004 and the International Bentley Educator of the Year Award 2005.

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Nicolas Monmarché

Nicolas Monmarché is Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Tours, France. In 1997 he graduated from the Engineers School in Computer Science for Industry of Tours, France and has presented his PhD work in 2000. His research interests are focused on ants-inspired algorithms, and more generally on bio-inspired clustering or optimization methods.

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Craig Neufeld

Craig grew up in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario, Canada. He attended Brock University where he earned his BSc in Computer Science with a concentration in Software Engineering. His undergraduate thesis was entitled "Evolutionary Aesthetic Image Filter Synthesis". He is currently attending graduate school in Elkhart, Indiana and anticipates earning a Master of Divinity Degree in Theology.

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Michael O'Neill

Dr. Michael O'Neill has over 90 peer reviewed publications on Natural Computing including two books, Grammatical Evolution in 2003, and Biologically Inspired Algorithms for Financial Modelling in 2006.
He is currently a lecturer in the School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland, where he leads the UCD Natural Computing Research & Applications group.

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Una-May O’Reilly

Dr. O'Reilly is a fellow of the International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (now SIG-EVO). She is leader of the Evo-DesignOpt research group which studies the development and application of evolutionary algorithms in tandem with convex optimization and machine learning techniques for solving a spectrum of engineering and design problems.

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William James Ralph

Bill Ralph grew up in North Bay, Ontario, Canada and has always been interested in mathematics, music and art. He spent three years in Toronto studying piano and composition before switching to mathematics at the University of Waterloo where he obtained a Ph.D. in Algebraic Topology. Several years ago, he was commissioned to design a piece of multimedia software to teach calculus and moved to San Francisco to create the award winning CD that is now called "Journey Through Calculus". While he was studying the behaviour of certain chaotic dynamical systems, Professor Ralph became interested in using the mathematics of dynamical systems to create visual art. His interest in using mathematics to both analyze and generate art has led to many exhibitions of his work. He is currently on the mathematics faculty of Brock University in St. Catharines Ontario where he enjoys teaching courses like mathematical modeling and the history of mathematics to excellent students.

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Rafael Ramírez

Rafael Ramirez is an Assistant Professor in the Technology Department of the Pompeu Fabra University. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics from the National University of Mexico, and his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, UK. Previously, he was a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the School of Computing of the National University of Singapore. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, evolutionary computing, computer music, declarative programming, and Program verification.

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Juan Romero

Juan Romero is an associate of the faculty of Computer Science in the University of Coruña, Spain. His work is related to the use of biological inspiring techniques (such us evolutionary techniques an artificial neural networks) in artistic domains. His main research interests are the developing artificial artist, artificial art critics, and the interaction of these systems with human society. He also organized scientific events (Evomusart, Gavam2000) and special issues in journals (Leonardo, special issue of GEnetic Algorithms in Visual Art and Music).

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Brian J. Ross

Brian Ross grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He obtained his B.C.Sc. at the University of Manitoba in 1984, his M.Sc. at the University of British Columbia in 1988, and his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1992.
He is now a professor of computer science at Brock University, where he has worked since 1992. His research interests include evolutionary computation, language induction, concurrency, computer graphics, computer music, and logic programming. He is particularly interested in applications of evolutionary computation in the arts. In his spare time, he composes experimental electronic music.

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Xavier Serra

Xavier Serrra is an Associate Professor of the Pompeu Fabra University, director of the Department of Technology of the UPF, and head of the Music Technology Group of the UPF. His research interests include signal processing, and computer music.

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Mohamed Slimane

Mohamed Slimane is Professor at the Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Tours, France. He studies hybrid deterministic and stochastic algorithms (such as genetic algorithms and artificial ants) for the optimization and learning of hidden Markov models. He applies those techniques to real world problem in pattern and image recognition and time series prediction.

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Jeffrey Ventrella

JJ Ventrella is an artist and software programmer who does research in artificial life. Ventrella makes his living as a developer of virtual world technology in the San Francisco bay area, previously a co-founder of There.com, and currently a developer at Linden Lab. He has an MFA from Syracuse University, and an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With early training in Art Education, Ventrella is interested in building interactive artifacts that inspire creativity. Having been involved in music all his life, Ventrella has recently begun to apply techniques in evolutionary computation to music composition.

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