tailieunhanh - Aesthetic Computing Dagstuhl Seminar Report Nº 348

Witasek is described as having been particularly musical and is reported to have spent many hours playing music together with Meinong. It was indeed his passion for music which first brought him to study in Graz: he had been provoked by Stumpf's Tonpsychologie to take an interest in the psychology of music and was attracted by the possibilities promised by the experimental psychology laboratory which had been so recently established by Meinong. At that stage the future of the laboratory was still uncertain and it is Witasek - who was already the effective head. | Aesthetic Computing Dagstuht Seminar N 02291 . Organised by Paul Fishwick Roger Malina and Christa Sommerer Dagstuhl Seminar Report N 348 Edited by Olav w. Bertelsen and Paul Fishwick Preface The Aesthetic Computing Seminar was organized by Paul Fishwick University of Florida Roger Malina University of California Berkeley and Christa Sommerer ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Lab and took place at Schloss Dagstuhl in July 2002. The initial motivation for the seminar was to investigate into alternative cultural and aesthetically-motivated representations for computer science models such as automata networks flow graphs software visualization structures semantic networks and information graphs. This was seen as increasingly relevant as the wave of rich personalized sensory modes became more economic by the perpetual march toward faster and better interfaces. If it were possible to build software models from any material and with great speed and agility what new forms of expression would be crafted It was expected that aesthetics and artist-driven approaches to model representation was about to emerge from more efficient and expressive methods of representation based on advanced technologies. So it was hoped that the advanced possibilities could bring . visualization to be not only about presenting output but also to be about completely new methods of modeling. Thus Aesthetic Computing was understood as a new trend in modeling and representation where art and science would come together with art in direct support of science The mix of artists and academics from all sorts of fields resulted in a fruitful week with inspiring presentations divergent discussions and even constructive group work bringing us closer to an understanding of what aesthetic computing might be but further away from a definition. In the last session we tried to formulate what aesthetic computing could be about based on that discussion Paul wrote the aesthetic .