Mini-XEPA: An Installation of Collaborating Intelligent Light and Sound Sculptures

Mini-XEPA is an installation of about 16 systems that anticipates a future where machines form their own societies. The project is a second generation following the original XEPA project of a few years prior. These systems exhibit apparent artistic creativity by applying modest artificial intelligence to aesthetic challenges. The small mini-XEPA intelligent sculptures create animated light sequences and musical sound. No scripts, coordination information, or commands are used. Each mini-XEPA “watches” the others and modifies its own aesthetic behaviour to create a collaborative improvisational performance. First an overview of mini-XEPA is presented as to purpose, hardware, software, and algorithms for aesthetic evaluation and aesthetic group convergence. After that we drill down on a specific aspect of the mini-XEPA’s intelligent behaviour, the computational aesthetic evaluation of colour palettes.

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Philip Galanter

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 403-409

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[0001]Texas A&M University

Department of Visualization

C418 Langford Center – 3137 TAMU

College Station, Texas 77843-3137

USA

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.80

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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P. Galanter 2012 Computational Aesthetic Evaluation: Past and Future J. MccormackM. D’inverno Computers and Creativity Springer Berlin
P. Galanter 2013 XEPA: Color And Pattern Algorithms For Intelligent Light Sculptures International Conference on Generative Art Milan, Italy 10-12 December 2013 1 17 Generative Design Lab, Milan Polytechnic. Milan
P. Galanter 2014 Xepa - Autonomous Intelligent Light And Sound Sculptures That Improvise Group Performances Leonardo 47 4 386 393
L. A. HillerL. M. Isaacson 1958 Musical composition with a high-speed digital computer Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 6 6 154 160
A. MordvintsevC. OlahM. Tyka 2015 Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks. http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html 11 November 2015

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[1] P. Galanter 2012 Computational Aesthetic Evaluation: Past and Future J. MccormackM. D’inverno Computers and Creativity Springer Berlin

[2] P. Galanter 2013 XEPA: Color And Pattern Algorithms For Intelligent Light Sculptures International Conference on Generative Art Milan, Italy 10-12 December 2013 1 17 Generative Design Lab, Milan Polytechnic. Milan

[3] P. Galanter 2014 Xepa - Autonomous Intelligent Light And Sound Sculptures That Improvise Group Performances Leonardo 47 4 386 393

[4] L. A. HillerL. M. Isaacson 1958 Musical composition with a high-speed digital computer Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 6 6 154 160

[5] A. MordvintsevC. OlahM. Tyka 2015 Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks. http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html 11 November 2015

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