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Evolving Artistic Styles through Visual Dialogues

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We describe an interactive art that can facilitate visual dialogues with a user and reveal the user’s compositional proclivity. The system invites the user for a visual dialogue, initially presenting two compositions in distinct styles. Then, the user “converses” with the system by responding. As the interactions continue, the user starts to experience a tendency evolving in the compositions–much the same way as in a dialogue between two people. Throughout the interactions, the evolutionary process brings out a certain sense of self-reflection to the user. The product of the dialogue is an experience in self-reflection in visual proclivity. I3 was exhibited to the public in two international art forums.

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  • Parse Tree
  • Perceptual Grouping
  • Artistic Style
  • Small Shape
  • Gestalt Theory

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,  

    Jae C. Oh

  2. Department of Transmedia, Visual Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 13214, U.S.A.

    Edward Zajec

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  3. ’Dalla Molle’ Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Galleria 2, 6928, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland

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  9. Department of Informatics Engineering, Polo II - Pinhal de Marrocos, University of Coimbra, 3030 - 290, Coimbra, Portugal

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Oh, J.C., Zajec, E. (2010). Evolving Artistic Styles through Visual Dialogues. In: , et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computation. EvoApplications 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6025. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12242-2_27

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