Computational Aesthetics 2008 http://computational-aesthetics.org June 18-20, 2008, Lisbon, Portugal Keynote Speakers: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford, CA and Ernest Edmonds, UT Sydney You are invited to participate in the fourth annual Symposium on Computational Aesthetics that will take place at the Hotel Riviera in Lisbon, Portugal from 18-20 June 2008. Computational Aesthetics bridges the analytic and synthetic and integrates aspects of computer science, philosophy, psychology, and the fine & performing arts. In particular it focuses on the mathematical and information theoretic aspects of both connectionist and symbol processing methods by humans and computers. Computational Aesthetics seeks to facilitate both the analysis and the augmentation of creative behaviour. It investigates the creation of tools that can enhance the expressive power of the fine and applied arts and furthers our understanding of aesthetic evaluation, perception and meaning. Invited talks will be given by individuals involved in the technical, artistic and theoretical aspects of this young field to help participants to better understand what aesthetics is, what computer technology is currently capable of delivering, and to appreciate what is involved in the creative process. Technical submissions are invited across the broad range of areas covered by Computational Aesthetics (for the Call for Participation by experts in the visual arts, see the website). Specific examples include, but are not limited to: • Computational analysis and modelling of creative behaviour (AI, A-life) • Artistic Image Transformation Techniques (colours, edges, patterns, dithering) • Image Analogies, Style Transfer Methods • Image Style and Salience Analysis (Paintings, Photographs, others) • Visualization (perceptual or aesthetics based) • Sketching, Simplification techniques (artistic, cognitive) • Composition, Visual Balance, Layout • Non-Photorealistic Rendering • Empirically based Metrics of Aesthetical Attributes • Applied Visual Perception (Colour Appearance, Spatial Vision, and other aspects) Paper Submission: Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work. The manuscripts must be written in English, must be formatted according to the EG publication guidelines, and can be no longer than 8 pages. The accepted technical and art papers will be presented at the symposium and will appear in the proceedings, which will be published by Eurographics, distributed by AK Peters and appear in the Eurographics and ACM Digital Libraries. For more information including paper formatting and submission guidelines see the website at http://computational-aesthetics.org Important dates: Submission deadline (Full Papers / Short Papers / Panels): March 15 2008 Acceptance notification: April 18, 2008 Artist’s Presentations / Artworks / Performances / Posters / Demo Proposals: April 15, 2008 Camera-ready deadline: May 2, 2008 Conference: June 18-20, 2008 Conference Chairs: Joaquim Jorge, INESC-ID, Portugal Bruce Gooch, Univ. Victoria, Canada Program Chairs: Technical Program: Douglas Cunningham, Univ. of Tübingen, Germany Victoria Interrante, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Arts Program: Paul Brown, Univ. Sussex, UK Jon McCormack, Monash Univ., Australia Local Arts Chair: Adérito Marcos, Univ Minho, Portugal Publicity Chair: Tobias Isenberg, Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands -- -J. Jorge http://web.ist.utl.pt/jorgej Yahoo IM: joaquim_jorge _________________________________________________________________________ Joaquim A. Jorge (jorgej(a)acm.org, jorgej(a)ieee.org) | PHONE:+351 213100363 INESC, Rua Alves Redol,9, 1000-029 Lisboa, PORTUGAL| TAGUS:+351 214233238 ____________________Simplex Sigillum Veri__________|____jaj(a)inesc.pt_____ Submit your paper to Computers & Graphics at: http://ees.elsevier.com/cag