Class7notes

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Contents 1 Preliminary Class Business 2 Creator Creatures 3 The "Bottom-Up" Direction in Creativity Research 4 Distributed, Collaborative Bottom-Up Creativity 5 Emergence (Complexity) Theory

Preliminary Class Business

• Progress on the team topic pages
• Reminder of team assignments in next series of workshops

Creator Creatures

• Harold Cohen's Aaron
  • Cohen's home page
  • Downloadable screensaver version

     Is it art? Is it creative?

• Hybrot/MEART

• Cyberpoet (Poet Assistant)

The "Bottom-Up" Direction in Creativity Research

• Rodney Brooks's robotics research
  • Brooks's projects
  • "subsumption architecture"
• The Golem Project
  • Smalley, Eric. "Robots Emerge From Simulation." Technology Research News. 20 September 2000. Retrieved 24 April 2006. <http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/092000/Evolutionary_Robots.html>

Distributed, Collaborative Bottom-Up Creativity

• Steven Johnson, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (on slime molds, ants, etc.), p. 18
• Cellular automata
  • John Conway's Game of Life (e.g., as implemented in Life32 by Johan Bontes]
  • Steven Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
  • images of celluar automata
• Douglas Hoftadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group
  • Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition (aka the Fluid Analogies Research Group)
  • Hofstadter, Douglas. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Vintage, 1980.
  • Hofstadter, Douglas, and the Fluid Analogies Research Group. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. New York: Basic, 1995.

Emergence (Complexity) Theory

• Holland, John H. Emergence from Chaos to Order. Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 1998.
• Nicolis, Grégoire, and Ilya Prigogine. Exploring Complexity: An Introduction. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1989.
• Kauffman, Stuart. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.