Artificial Intelligence and the Arts (eBook)

Emotions, creativity, aesthetics, artistic behavior, divergent thoughts, and curiosity are both fundamental to the human experience and instrumental in the development of human-centered artificial intelligence systems that can relate, communicate, and understand human motivations, desires, and needs. In this book the editors put forward two core propositions: creative artistic behavior is one of the key challenges of artificial intelligence research, and computer-assisted creativity and human-centered artificial intelligence systems are the driving forces for research in this area.

Penousal Machado is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Informatics of the University of Coimbra in Portugal and scientific director of its Computational Design and Visualization Lab. His research interests include Computational Creativity, Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Visualization. He has chaired related scientific events, including the Intl. Conf. on Computational Creativity (ICCC), the Intl. Conf. on Parallel Problem-Solving from Nature (PPSN), and EvoStar, the European Conf. on Bio-inspired Computing, and he is a member of related steering committees and editorial boards. Among his recognitions is the EvoStar Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe. He has given invited keynotes on Evolutionary Computation, Visualization, and Art, his work was featured in the journal Leonardo and Wired magazine, and he has presented in venues such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.