Fictional Characters as Adaptive Systems: The Malaspina and de Graaf Gardens

This paper describes an artwork titled Nine Gardens . The project is a series of slowly evolving digital landscapes meant to represent the interior states of fictional characters. Each garden relies on a system of elements and signals to generate character states then model these as visual elements on screen. In addition to signals from their environment, the elements that make up each garden rely on internal schemes of deliberation to decide their appearance. Deliberation rules were conceived of as ‘character states’. The aim of the project is to portray character as a dynamic system or post-dramatic construction as opposed to the conventional view of character as an aggregate of wants and goals. This paper describes the design of two of the systems in the series, the Malaspina and de Graaf gardens.

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Angela Ferraiolo

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 313-321

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Bronxville, New York, USA

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.57

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] P Beyls 2012 Autonomy, influence and emergence in an audiovisual ecosystem Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference, Rome, Italy

[2] S Bush 2012 The Chinese Literati on Painting: Su Shih (1037–1101) to Tung Ch’i-Ch’ang (1555–1636) Hong Kong University Press

[3] J Cahill 1982 The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting 1979 Harvard Univ Pr

[4] J Elster 1993 Political psychology Cambridge University Press

[5] J. M Epstein 1999 Agent-based computational models and generative social science Complexity 4 5 41 60

[6] W FongF Marilyn 1973 Sung and Yuan paintings Metropolitan Museum of Art

[7] E Fuchs 2012 The Death of Character: Reflections on Theatre after Modernism Indiana University Press

[8] D GentnerA. L Stevens 2014 Mental models Psychology Press

[9] J. H Holland 1990 Echo: Explorations of evolution in a miniature world

[10] J. H Holland 1995 Hidden order how adaptation builds complexity No. 003.7 H6

[11] J. H Holland 2012 Signals and boundaries: Building blocks for complex adaptive systems MIT Press

[12] G HutzlerB GortaisA DrogoulB Hill 1999 Garden of Chances Leonardo 32 3 181 182

[13] S KassinS FeinH. R Markus 2007 Social Psychology: Readings Wadsworth Publishing Company

[14] J. L KirschR. A Kirsch 1988 The anatomy of painting style: Description with computer rules Leonardo 1988 437 444

[15] S. E LeeH Wai-kam 1968 Chinese art under the Mongols: the Yüan dynasty, 1279–1368 Cleveland Museum of Art; distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University

[16] H. T Lehmann 2006 Postdramatic theatre Routledge

[17] J McCormack 2001 Eden: An evolutionary sonic ecosystem European Conference on Artificial Life 133 142 Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

[18] J. H MillerS. E Page 2009 Complex adaptive systems: an introduction to computational models of social life Princeton University Press

[19] M. L Minsky 2007 The Society of Mind New York Simon & Schuster Paperbacks

[20] G Munro 2016 Nanocosm Art exhibition, 19th Generative Art Conference Florence, Italy

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[22] M. L Ryan 1991 Possible worlds, artificial intelligence, and narrative theory Indiana University Press

[23] C SommererL Mignonneau 2002 Modeling the emergence of complexity: Complex systems, the origin of life and interactive on-line art Leonardo 35 2 161 169

[24] K Sims 1994 Evolving virtual creatures Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques 15 22 ACM

[25] L XiongK Zhang 2016 Generation of Miro’s Surrealism Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction 130 137 ACM

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