GENERATIVE ART CONFERENCE _ GA2024
17 December 2024 
papers at UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Castello 4930, 30122 Venice _ Conference room
9.30 _ Celestino Soddu, Enrica Colabella, Italy, Chairs of Generative Art conference, OPENING
10.00 _ Celestino Soddu, Italia, ARGENIA: AN OPERATIONAL STEP TOWARDS THE DYNAMIC DEFINITION OF URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL IDENTITIES AS HERITAGE TO BE SAFEGUARDED, Generative Art & Design Lab, Argenia
10.20 _ Enrica Colabella, Italia, BEAUTY TRACES FOR AI NATURELESS, Generative Art & Design Lab, Argenia
10.40 _ Marie_Pascale Corcuff, France, CITY PATHS, MAZES, INTELLIGENCE, AND GENERATIVE DESIGN, Architect, Rennes
11.00 coffee
11.30 _ Peter Beyls, Belgium, EMBODIED INTERACTION WITH ALGORITHMS, The School of Arts, University College Ghent.
11.50 _ Ben Baruch Blich,  Israel,  THE BEAUTY OF THE RUINED BUILDING, The Interdisciplinary program of the Arts, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
12.10 _ B.T. Franklin, USA, SPOOKLIGHT: A GENERATIVE APPROACH TO AI_DRIVEN STORYTELLING, independent Researcher, Phoenix, AZ
12.30  lunch at Giardinetto Restaurant
14.00 _ Rafael Tamim, Tristan Cazenave, France, AN ATTEMPT AT GENERATING BEETHOVEN’S 33RD, PIANO SONATA WITH MUSIC TRANSFORMER, LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine _ PSL, Paris
14.20 _ Ian O’Loughlin, USA, GENERATIVE AUTHORSHIP, Department of Philosophy, Pacific University, Forest Grove.
14.40 _ Sun Park, UK, THE REGISTRATION OF AI_GENERATED WORKS AS UNESCO HERITAGE: HUMAN_ALGORITHMIC COMMON HERITAGE OF MANKIND, Department of Art History and Cultural Practices, University of Manchester, Manchester
15.00 _ Christopher Fry, UK, Chad Eby, USA LEXICONIA – A LEXICON OF GENERATIVE AI, Westminster School of Art, University of Westminster, School of Art and Visual Studies, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
15.20 _ Tatsuo Unemi, Japan, BUILDING A WEB SITE TO PLAY BACK GENERATIVE ANIMATIONS, Glycan and Life Systems Integration Centre, Soka University, Hachioji
16.00 coffee
posters at UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Castello 4930, 30122 Venice _ Exhibition space
16.30 _ Curtis L Palmer, Canada, IN, OUT, AROUND _ REVISITED, Synergetic Design, Edmonton, Alberta
16.45 _ Marija Obradović, Slobodan Mišić, Serbia, LEARNING THROUGH PLAYING WITH AI: COLLABORATION OF INTELLIGENCES IN CREATING A TRANSFORMABLE 3D ART INSTALLATION, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts
17.00 _ Yan Bello Méndez, Spain, SONIFICATION.AI: GENERATIVE SOUND EXPERIMENTS, SpaceMinds SL, Madrid
17.15 _ Arne Eigenfeldt, Canada, GOGO MUSEBOTS: A GENERATIVE CO_CREATION WITH HUMAN MUSICIANS School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
17.30 _ Jan Paredaens, Belgium, THE BEAUTY OF ROTATIONS IN PROCESSING, University of Antwerp
17.45 _ Bin Umino, Asako Soga, Motoko Hirayama, Japan, UTILIZING THE GENERATED DANCE CHOREOGRAPHIES IN THEATRE PERFORMANCES, Faculty of Sociology, Toyo University, Tokyo, Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Otsu, Graduate School of C
18.00 _ Angela Ferraiolo, USA, COUPLED AND INTELLIGENT INTERACTIONS IN REACTION_DIFFUSION SYSTEMS, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York (paper)
18.15 discussion end of the day program
20.00 Conference Dinner at Giardinetto Restaurant
18 December
papers at UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Castello 4930, 30122 Venice _ Conference room
9.30 _ Cristina M. Reis, Portugal, Nuno Barreiro, UK MAKE ROOM FOR NATURE! PERSONAL NARRATIVES CO_CREATED WITH GENERATIVE AI CENSE – Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Caparica, 
9.50 _ Nicolas Reeves, Vincent Cusson, Alexandre Pariseau, Pierrot_Baptiste Lemée_Jolicœur, Marie_Martine Bédard, Canada THE JOURNEY OF THE MEMORY HORSE, University of Quebec in Montreal,  University of Montreal, Activist and independent musician, Ste_Adèle.
10.10 _ Monika Karwaszewska, Poland, GENRE MEMORY AND THE BEAUTY OF EARLY MUSIC VS AI IN THE AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE ‘CONCERTO GROSSO – W LABIRYNCIE’, Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk
10.30 _ Agnieszka Mensfelt, UK, ON THE ARTISTRY OF GENERATIVE AI AND THE CASE FOR SURRE_AI_LISM, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham
10.50 coffee
11.30 _ Manuel Báez, Canada, THE RESONANT MIND_FIELD OF EMBODIED CONSCIOUSNESS, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University, Ottawa
11.50 _ Ginger L Franklin, USA, ENCODING THE DIVINE: LEVERAGING AI FOR THE TRANSLATION AND PRESERVATION OF SIKH SCRIPTURE, Independent Scholar/Phoenix, Arizona
12.10 _ Davide Prete, USA, AN EXPLORATION OF AI TEXT_TO_3D GENERATORS: LATEST DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS ON 3D PRINTING, Division of Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
12.30 lunch at Giardinetto Restaurant
Artworks at UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Castello 4930, 30122 Venice _Exhibition space
14.00 _ Chin_En Keith Soo, Rowan Simmons, New Zealand, CHROMATIC GHOST, Department of Design, University of Waikato
14.15 _ David Bouchard, Canada, ISOPOLIS, New Media Department, Toronto Metropolitan University
14.30 _ İrem Hafız, Turkiye, A NEW AESTHETICS OF VASTNESS: COMPLEX FRACTAL GEOMETRIES IN GENERATIVE AI, Department of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
14.45 _ Anna M. Chupa, Michael A. Chupa, USA, HANDAIWORK: GENERATIVE AI_ENHANCED QUILTED TEXTILES, Art Architecture and Design, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Anna Chupa Designs, Easton, Pennsylvania
15.00 _ Slawomir Wojtkiewicz, Karolina Masłowska, Poland, DREAM OF A CITY, Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Architecture, Bialystok University of Technology, Academy of Fine Art in Gdansk, Department of Architecture
15.15 _ Lucas Bang, USA, AUTOPOIETIC NEURAL NETWORK – DYNAMIC IMAGES ENCODED AS A SELF_MODIFYING NEURAL NETS, Department of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA
15.30 coffee
16.15 _ Celestino Soddu, IDENTITY AND FUTURE OF VENICE,  Generative Art & Design Lab, Argenia
16.30 _ Edward S. Johnston, USA, , FLUID TIME VARIATION, ANIMATED PROJECTION ARTWORK, Robert Busch School of Design, Michael Graves College, Kean University, Union, New Jersey
16,45 _ Chad Eby, USA, THE ALPHABETIC LABYRINTH, School of Art and Visual Studies, University of Kentucky, Lexington
Live Performances at UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Castello 4930, 30122 Venice _ Conference room
17.00 _ Andrea Wollensak, Katja Novak, Brett Terry, USA, Estonia, GENERATIVE VISUAL POETRY: DRAWING THE LAND’S MEMORY THROUGH PLACE_BASED POEMS, Department of Art, Ammerman Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT; Poet, Translator, Tallinn; Independent Scho
17.15 Open Discussion
19.00 end of the day program
19 December
papers at UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Castello 4930, 30122 Venice _ Conference room
9.30 _ Peggy Bloomer, USA, FAST FORWARD: HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) HAS INTEGRATED INTO THE DESIGN CURRICULUM IN LESS THAN A YEAR, Department of Art & Design, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
9.45 _ Nikolaus Bezruczko, USA, GENERATIVE AI CLARIFIES VALIDITY OF AUTHENTIC PAINTINGS FOR MEASURING ARTISTIC JUDGMENT APTITUDE, Department of Clinical Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago
10.00 _ Guillaume Rochais, France, RANDOMNESS, RULE, PROGRAM: HOW THE ISSUES OF GENERATIVE ART TAKE SHAPE IN PRE_ALGORITHMIC MUSIC, ACCRA, Université de Strasbourg
10.15 _ P. L. Capucci, Italy, ART, HUMANITY, AND BEYOND. TOWARDS NEW CREATIVE PARADIGMS, Noema, LABA Rimini
10.30 _ Margaret McManus, USA, ARCHIVE STUDIO: EXPLORING FUTURE SPACE FOR FORMER MATTERS, School of Building Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
10.45 _ Joanna E. Kabala, The Netherlands, BEAUTY AND THE PROMPT, Eindhoven
11.00 coffee
11.30 _ Jônatas Manzolli, Micael Antunes, Brazil, Portugal, France, RE(M)IND: COMPOSITION AND GENERATIVE SOUND DESIGN OF A MULTIMODAL OPERA, Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Sound Studies (NICS), Unicamp, Brazil, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the Universit
11.45 _ Stephen Erfle, USA, HUMANISTIC EXPLORATIONS IN ALGORITHMIC ART USING SEQUENCE PLAYER MODE OF PLAYING WITH POLYGONS, department of International Business and Management, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
12.00 _ Alain Lioret, Kamal Hennou, France, WORLD BEINGS, Université Paris 8, ESGI Digital Lab
12.15 lunch catering
14.00 _ Roland Baz, Kristina Malyseva, Anna Pappa, Tristan Cazenave, France, BRAICHT, A THEATRICAL  AGENT THAT SPEAKS LIKE BERTOLT BRECHT’S CHARACTERS, LAMSADE, Paris Dauphine _ PSL, ZHDK, Zurich Univ. of the Arts, LIASD Univ. Paris 8
14.15 _ Dragana Ćirić, Serbia, PROGRAMMABLE ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, AND TERRITORY: SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA_DRIVEN FORMS OF STRATEGIC URBAN SCENARIOS, Independent Scientific Associate/Research Assistant Professor;  Founder, Licenced Architect, and PI at un
14.30 _ Reza Kakooee Benjamin Dillenburger, Switzerland, ILLUMINATING SPACES: DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND LASER_WALL PARTITIONING FOR ARCHITECTURAL LAYOUT GENERATION, Institute of Technology in Architecture, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich
14.45 _ Natalie Oulikhanian,  Behnaz Merikhi, Rhonda McEwen, Canada, SHARED SPACES OF CREATION: GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE’S CREATIVE AGENCY AND AFFORDANCES IN THE ARTISTIC PROCESS, University of Toronto
15.00 _ Katherine Lapierre, Canada, OUTSIDER ARCHITECTURES, School of Design, Université du Québec à Montréal
15.15 _ Daniela Sirbu, Canada, IMPRESSIONS OF AQUASCAPES WITH REFLECTIONS OF SPRING, Department of New Media, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lethbridge
15.30 _ Umberto Roncoroni, Peru’, ANIMATION TECHNIQUES USING L_SYSTEMS, Department of Graphic Design, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
15.45 coffee
Live_Performances at UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Castello 4930, 30122 Venice _ Conference room
16.00 _ Jeffrey M. Morris, Rebecca Hays, USA, VIRIDISSIMARIGORE: EVERGREEN STRUGGLES BETWEEN THE ORGANIC AND THE MECHANICAL, College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts, Texas A&M University, College Station
16.20 _ Jean_Claude Heudin, France, ANGELIA: AN EMOTIONAL GENERATIVE ALGORITHMIC INTELLIGENCE FOR CONTEMPORARY ELECTRONIC MUSIC, Artificial_Creature, Univ. Paris_Sud
16.40 _ Monika Karwaszewska, Beata Oryl, Michał Garnowski, Marcin Garnowski, Poland, GESTOMAT _ AN INTERACTIVE INSTRUMENT FOR THE PRECOMPOSITION OF AUDIOVISUAL WORKS, Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Gdańsk Univers
17.10 _ Enrico “Catodo” Zimuel, Italy, SYMMETRIIS, A SOFTWARE TO PERFORM LIVE VISUAL SYMMETRIES IN GENERATIVE ART PERFORMANCES, Computational artist, Turin
17.30 _ Fernanda N. Bellicieri, Brazil, SOLO SALE SIAMO… JUSTDUST, Communication and Languages Center , Mackenzie Presbyterian Univ. San Paolo
17.45 _ Sam Wells, USA, THE COTTONWOOD FLORILEGIUM, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, Philadelphia.
18.00  greetings and final toast
19.00  end of the day program