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Ellen Dissanayake’s Evolutionary Aesthetic

Biology & Philosophy, 2005
AbstractIn a series of books, Ellen Dissanayake has developed a subtle, complex account in which art is seen as an evolutionary adaptation. We use it to make ourselves and our environments special and, more generally, to cement familial and social bonds.
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Evolutionary Aesthetics: Contemporary Evolutionary Aesthetics: The View from the Humanities (and Humanists)

Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 2017
In this paper, I assess the current state of evolutionary aesthetics by reviewing four recent books by scholars in art history, literary studies, and psychology. Each book is humanistic in a broad sense. While they all address evolutionary themes and share a commitment to understanding aesthetic experience via methodological pluralism, they differ ...
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Investigating aesthetic measures for unsupervised evolutionary art

Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2014
Abstract We present an extensive study into aesthetic measures in unsupervised evolutionary art (EvoArt). In contrast to several mainstream EvoArt approaches we evolve images without human interaction, using one or more aesthetic measures as fitness functions.
Eelco den Heijer, A. E. Eiben
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Learning aesthetic judgements in evolutionary art systems

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2013
Learning aesthetic judgements is essential for reducing users' fatigue in evolutionary art systems. Although judging beauty is a highly subjective task, we consider that certain features are important to please users. In this paper, we introduce an adaptive model to learn aesthetic judgements in the task of interactive evolutionary art.
Yang Li 0007, Changjun Hu, Leandro L. Minku, Haolei Zuo   +3 more
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Aesthetics and Evolutionary Psychology

2009
The applications of the science of psychology to our understanding of the origins and nature of art is not a recent phenomenon; in fact, it is as old as the Greeks. Plato wrote of art not only from the standpoint of metaphysics, but also in terms of the psychic, especially emotional, dangers that art posed to individuals and society.
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Evolutionary Aesthetics, Values, and Methodology

2014
We treat the scientific procedures and assumptions used throughout the book. The scholarly study of aesthetic judgments, including those about the attractiveness/unattractiveness of values, initially arose as a branch of philosophy. We criticize the philosophical method as a way of knowing the causes of values.
Randy Thornhill, Corey L. Fincher
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Aesthetic Measures for Evolutionary Vase Design

2013
In order to avoid the expense of interactive evolution, some researchers have begun using aesthetic measures as fitness functions. This paper explores the potential of one of the earliest aesthetic measures by George Birkhoff as a fitness function in vase design after suitable modifications.
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Aesthetic Learning in an Interactive Evolutionary Art System

2010
Learning aesthetic judgements is essential for reducing the users' fatigue in evolutionary art system. Although judging beauty is a highly subjective task, we consider that certain features are important to please users. In this paper, the aesthetic preferences are explored by learning the features, which we extracted from the images in the interactive
Yang Li 0007, Changjun Hu
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Aesthetic habits and aesthetic experience: an evolutionary view

2017
Recent attempts, naturalistically inspired, to re-interpret the aesthetic and the arts beyond the ancient dichotomies (culture vs. nature, form vs. content, mind vs. world) have not been entirely successful so far. With some - although promising - exceptions, neither contemporary evolutionary aesthetics, the main aim of which is to investigate the ...
Portera, M, MANDRIOLI, Mauro
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Aesthetic experience in the evolutionary perspective

2013
Negli ultimi vent’anni, un ampio spettro di discipline è stato mobilitato nella formulazione di modelli teorici e sperimentali in grado di rispondere alle principali domande che emergono quando si cerca di ripensare l’estetica in ottica evoluzionistica: esiste una facoltà estetica?
Lorenzo Bartalesi, Gianluca Consoli
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