While improvements in computer performance are dramatically changing the computer-generated art industry, scientists in natural computing have teamed up with artists to examine how bioinspired systems can influence art, technology and even aesthetic appreciation. This comprehensive book gives an up-to-date survey of the relevant bioinspired computing research fields - such as evolutionary computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence and ant colony algorithms - and examines applications in art, music and design. The editors and contributors are researchers and artists with deep experience of the related science, tools and applications, and the book includes overviews of historical developments and future perspectives. The book will be of interest to computer scientists and artists engaged with natural computing techniques applied to art, music and design. The accompanying DVD contains image, video and music samples, as well as source code and demonstrations, providing a good starting point for beginners. The book is supported with a dedicated website. TOC:Part I - Fundamentals.- Introduction.- Evolutionary Music.- Evolutionary Art.- Historical Perspective.- Part II - Evolutionary Music.- Interactive Evolutionary Music.- Cellular Automata, Artificial Life and Music.- Self-organised Music.- Part III - Evolutionary Art, Video and Design.- Interactive Evolutionary Art.- Electric Sheep.- Creative Evolutionary Design Tools.- Part IV - Artistic Perspectives.- Artists and Artificial Music.- Action Painting and Evolution.- Evolving Virtual Ecosystems.- Part V - Future Perspectives.- Coevolutionary Art.- Evolutionary Art and Hybrid Societies.- Open Problems. Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. Leonardo da Vinci Artistic behavior is one of the most valued qualities of the human mind. Although artistic manifestations vary from culture to culture, dedication to artistic tasks is common to all. In other words, artistic behavior is a universal trait of the human species. The current, Western de?nition of art is relatively new. However, a d- ication to artistic endeavors ¿ such as the embellishment of tools, body - namentation, or gathering of unusual, arguably aesthetic, objects ¿ can be traced back to the origins of humanity. That is, art is ever-present in human history and prehistory. Artandsciencesharealongandenduringrelationship.Thebest-known- ample of the explorationof this relationship is probably the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Somewhere in the 19th century art and science grew apart, but the cross-transfer of concepts between the two domains continued to exist. Currently, albeit the need for specialization, there is a growing interest in the exploration of the connections between art and science. Focusingoncomputerscience,itisinterestingtonoticethatearlypioneers of this discipline such as Ada Byron and Alan Turing showed an interest in using computational devices for art-making purposes. Oddly, in spite of this early interest and the ubiquity of art, it has received relatively little attention fromthe computersciencecommunityingeneral,and,moresurprisingly,from the arti?cial intelligence community. Part I Evolutionary Art 1 Evolutionary Visual Art and Design Matthew Lewis 3 2 Evolutionary Search for the Artistic Rendering of Photographs John P. Collomosse 39 3 Evolution and Collective Intelligence of the Electric Sheep Scott Draves 63 Part II Evolutionary Music 4 Evolutionary Computation Applied to Sound Synthesis James McDermott, Niall J.L. Griffith, and Michael O'Neill 81 5 Swarm Granulation Tim Blackwell 103 6 Evolutionary Computing for Expressive Music Performance Rafael Ramirez, Amaury Hazan, Jordi Marine, and Xavier Serra 123 Part III Real-World Applications 7 Evolutionary and Swarm Design in Science, Art, and Music Christian Jacob. and Gerald Hushlak 115 8 Genr8: Architects' Experience with an Emergent Design Tool Martin Hembery, Una-May O'Reilly, Achim Menges, Katrin Jonas, Michel da Costa Gon ves, and Steven R. Fuchs 167 9 Evolving Human Faces Charlie D. Frowd, and Peter J.B. Hancock 189 10 Evolutionary Reproduction of Dutch Masters: The Mondriaan and Esater Evolvers A.E. Eiben 211 Part IV Artistic Perspectives 11 Artificial Art Made by Artificial Ants Nicolas Monmarch Isabelle Mahnich, aml Mohamed Slimane 227 12 Embedding of Pixel-Based Evolutionary Algorithms in My Global Art Process G nter Bachelier 249 13 Evolving Structure in Liquid Music J.J. Ventrella 269 14 A Survey of Virtual Ecosystems in Generative Electronic Art Alan Dorin 289 15 Complexism and the Role of Evolutionary Art Philip Galanter 311 Part V Future Perspectives 16 The Evolution of Artistic Filters Craig Neufeld, Brian J. Ross, and William Ralph 335 17 Co-evolutionary Methods in Evolutionary Art Gary R. Greenfield 357 18 Experiments in Computational Aesthetics Penausal Machado, Juan Romero, and Bill A Manaris 381 19 Facing the Future: Evolutionary Possibilities for Human-Machine Creativity Jon McCormack 417 Index 453