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Aesthetics, Art, Evolution

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Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2013)

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This paper discusses issues in evolutionary art related to Art Theory and Aesthetics with a view to better understanding how they might contribute to both research and practice. Aesthetics is a term often used in evolutionary art, but is regularly used with conflicting or naïve understandings. A selective history of evolutionary art as art is provided, with an examination of some art theories from within the field. A brief review of aesthetics as studied in philosophy and art theory follows. It is proposed that evolutionary art needs to resolve some important conflicts and be clearer about what what it means by terms like “art” and “aesthetics”. Finally some possibilities for how to resolve these conflicts are described.

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  3. School of Computer Science, Department of Communications and Information Technologies, University of A Coruña, Campus de Elviña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    Adrian Carballal

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McCormack, J. (2013). Aesthetics, Art, Evolution. In: Machado, P., McDermott, J., Carballal, A. (eds) Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. EvoMUSART 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7834. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36955-1_1

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