Search Results for author: Jon McCormack

Found 20 papers, 3 papers with code

Holon: a cybernetic interface for bio-semiotics

no code implementations5 Apr 2024 Jon McCormack, Elliott Wilson

This paper presents an interactive artwork, "Holon", a collection of 130 autonomous, cybernetic organisms that listen and make sound in collaboration with the natural environment.

No Longer Trending on Artstation: Prompt Analysis of Generative AI Art

no code implementations24 Jan 2024 Jon McCormack, Maria Teresa Llano, Stephen James Krol, Nina Rajcic

Image generation using generative AI is rapidly becoming a major new source of visual media, with billions of AI generated images created using diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney over the last few years.

Image Generation

Creative Discovery using QD Search

1 code implementation8 May 2023 Jon McCormack, Camilo Cruz Gambardella, Stephen James Krol

In creative design, where aesthetics play a crucial role in determining the quality of outcomes, there are often multiple worthwhile possibilities, rather than a single ``best'' design.

Image Classification

Message Ritual: A Posthuman Account of Living with Lamp

no code implementations26 Jan 2023 Nina Rajcic, Jon McCormack

As we become increasingly entangled with digital technologies, the boundary between human and machine is progressively blurring.

Towards the Generation of Musical Explanations with GPT-3

1 code implementation11 May 2022 Stephen James Krol, Maria Teresa Llano, Jon McCormack

Open AI's language model, GPT-3, has shown great potential for many NLP tasks, with applications in many different domains.

Language Modelling

Explainable Computational Creativity

no code implementations11 May 2022 Maria Teresa Llano, Mark d'Inverno, Matthew Yee-King, Jon McCormack, Alon Ilsar, Alison Pease, Simon Colton

Human collaboration with systems within the Computational Creativity (CC) field is often restricted to shallow interactions, where the creative processes, of systems and humans alike, are carried out in isolation, without any (or little) intervention from the user, and without any discussion about how the unfolding decisions are taking place.

Quality-diversity for aesthetic evolution

no code implementations4 Feb 2022 Jon McCormack, Camilo Cruz Gambardella

We show that the quality-diversity search is able to find multiple phenotypes of high aesthetic value.

Complexity and Aesthetics in Generative and Evolutionary Art

no code implementations5 Jan 2022 Jon McCormack, Camilo Cruz Gambardella

We apply a series of different complexity measures to three different evolutionary art datasets and look at the correlations between complexity and individual aesthetic judgement by the artist (in the case of two datasets) or the physically measured complexity of generative 3D forms.

Growing and Evolving 3D Prints

no code implementations7 Jul 2021 Jon McCormack, Camilo Cruz Gambardella

We find that by evolving first for aesthetic complexity, then evolving for structural consistency until the form is 'just printable', gives the best results.

Searching for Designs in-between

no code implementations11 Feb 2021 Camilo Cruz Gambardella, Jon McCormack

The use of evolutionary methods in design and art is increasing in diversity and popularity.

The Enigma of Complexity

no code implementations3 Feb 2021 Jon McCormack, Camilo Cruz Gambardella, Andy Lomas

We apply a series of different complexity measures to three different generative art datasets and look at the correlations between complexity and individual aesthetic judgement by the artist (in the case of two datasets) or the physically measured complexity of 3D forms.

Deep Learning of Individual Aesthetics

1 code implementation24 Sep 2020 Jon McCormack, Andy Lomas

Accurate evaluation of human aesthetic preferences represents a major challenge for creative evolutionary and generative systems research.

Dimensionality Reduction

Mirror Ritual: An Affective Interface for Emotional Self-Reflection

no code implementations21 Apr 2020 Nina Rajcic, Jon McCormack

This paper introduces a new form of real-time affective interface that engages the user in a process of conceptualisation of their emotional state.

Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER)

Mirror Ritual: Human-Machine Co-Construction of Emotion

no code implementations15 Apr 2020 Nina Rajcic, Jon McCormack

Mirror Ritual is an interactive installation that challenges the existing paradigms in our understanding of human emotion and machine perception.

Adaptive Music Composition for Games

no code implementations2 Jul 2019 Patrick Hutchings, Jon McCormack

The generation of music that adapts dynamically to content and actions has an important role in building more immersive, memorable and emotive game experiences.

Music Generation

Camera Obscurer: Generative Art for Design Inspiration

no code implementations6 Mar 2019 Dilpreet Singh, Nina Rajcic, Simon Colton, Jon McCormack

Using a visual similarity search for image retrieval, the \emph{Camera Obscurer} app enables rapid searching of tens of thousands of generated abstract images of various types.

Image Retrieval Retrieval

In a Silent Way: Communication Between AI and Improvising Musicians Beyond Sound

no code implementations18 Feb 2019 Jon McCormack, Toby Gifford, Patrick Hutchings, Maria Teresa Llano Rodriguez, Matthew Yee-King, Mark d'Inverno

When human musicians improvise together, a number of extra-musical cues are used to augment musical communication and expose mental or emotional states which affect musical decisions and the effectiveness of the collaboration.

Human-Computer Interaction

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