Artificial Intelligence and Complexity in Art, Music, Games and Design III

Dear Colleagues,

A major—and potentially unachievable—challenge in computational arts is constructing algorithms that assess properties such as novelty, creativity, and the aesthetic properties of artistic artefacts or performances. Approaches to this have often been based on broadly information-theoretic concepts. For example, ideas linking mathematical notions of form and balance to beauty date back to ancient times. In the twentieth century, attempts were made to produce aesthetic measures based on ideas of a balance between order and complexity. More recently, these have been formalised into ideas of aesthetic engagement occurring when work is at the “edge of chaos” between excessive order and excessive disorder; formalising this using notions such as the Gini coefficient and Shannon entropy; and links between cognitive theories of the Bayesian brain and free energy minimisation with aesthetic theories. These ideas have been used both for understanding human behaviour and building creative systems.

The use of Artificial Intelligence and complex systems for the development of artistic systems is an exciting and relevant area of research. There is a growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; game content generation; and other creative tasks.

This Special Issue will focus on both the use of complex ideas and artificial intelligence methods to analyse and evaluate aesthetic properties, driving systems that generate aesthetically engaging artefacts, including but not limited to: music, sound, images, animations, designs, architectural plans, choreographies, poetry, text, jokes, etc.

Volume I: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/ai_complexity

Volume II: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/ai_complexity_II

Dr. Tiago Martins
Dr. João Correia
Dr. Nereida Rodríguez-Fernández
Guest Editors

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