Re: [Swarm-Modelling] creative expressions?

[Vitorino RAMOS]

At 12:09 05-11-2005, you wrote:
> hi
>
> im exploring the idea of using swarm intel as a means to creative 
> expressions like dynamic displays of information and the like. Is there 
> any work being conducted in this area ?
>
> Sujit
> National Institute of Design, India

Dear Sujit:

Here are some of my works in some different areas, which maybe can be of 
interest to you.
Every work web-page as a PDF link in order to download the full document:

# Vitorino Ramos, "On the Implicit and on the Artificial - Morphogenesis 
and Emergent Aesthetics in Autonomous Collective Systems", in ARCHITOPIA 
Book, Art, Architecture and Science, INSTITUT D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, J.L. 
Maubant et al. (Eds.), pp. 25-57, Chapter 2, ISBN 2905985631 - EAN 
9782905985637, France, Feb. 2002. 
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_37.html

# Vitorino Ramos, Filipe Almeida, "Artificial Ant Colonies in Digital Image 
Habitats - A Mass Behaviour Effect Study on Pattern Recognition", 
Proceedings of ANTS'2000 - 2nd International Workshop on Ant Algorithms 
(From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants), Marco Dorigo, Martin Middendorf & 
Thomas Stüzle (Eds.), pp. 113-116, Brussels, Belgium, 7-9 Sep. 2000. 
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_29.html

# V.Ramos, "A Strange Metamorphosis - From Kakfa 2 Red Ant": 
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/kafka2ant.html

# LeonelMoura, Vitorino Ramos, "Swarm Paintings - Non-Human Art", in 
ARCHITOPIA Book, Art, Architecture and Science, INSTITUT D'ART 
CONTEMPORAIN, J.L. Maubant et al. (Eds.), pp. 5-24, Chapter 1, ISBN 
2905985631 - EAN 9782905985637, France, Feb. 2002. 
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/aswarm.html

# Swarm Paintings at SOCIALFICTION.ORG: http://www.socialfiction.org/leonel.htm

# Vitorino Ramos, "Self-Organizing the Abstract: Canvas as a Swarm Habitat 
for Collective Memory, Perception and Cooperative Distributed Creativity", 
in 1st Art & Science Symposium - Models to Know Reality, J. Rekalde, R. 
Ibáñez and Á. Simó (Eds.), pp. 59, Facultad de Bellas Artes EHU/UPV, 
Universidad del País Vasco, 11-12 Dec., Bilbao, Spain, 2003. 
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_47.html

# The ARTSBOT project: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Artsbot.html

# The MC2 project: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/MC2.html

# Vitorino Ramos, Juan J. Merelo, "Self-Organized Stigmergic Document Maps: 
Environment as a Mechanism for Context Learning", in AEB´2002, 1st Spanish 
Conference on Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Algorithms, E. Alba, F. 
Herrera, J.J. Merelo et al. (Eds.), pp. 284-293, Centro Univ. de Mérida, 
Mérida, Spain, 6-8 Feb. 2002. 
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_42.html

# Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa, "Social Cognitive 
Maps, Swarm Collective Perception and Distributed Search on Dynamic 
Landscapes", submitted to Brains, Minds & Media, Journal of New Media in 
Neural and Cognitive Science, NRW, Germany, 2005.
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_58.html

Hope they can be somehow useful. Kind regards. vitorino