On the Origins of the Term "Computational Aesthetics"

To provide some background, as well as a historical context, for the Eurographics 2005 Workshop on Graphics, Visualization and Imaging we provide a chronology, complete with references, covering various research activities that invoke the term 'aesthetics" in a computational setting. Much of the research cited focuses on the problem of making numerical assessments of the aesthetic content of works of art.

[1]  John S. McCaskill,et al.  Art and Artificial Life—A Coevolutionary Approach , 2000 .

[2]  Tomás Staudek.  Computer-Aided Aesthetic Evaluation of Visual Patterns , 2003 .

[3]  Václav Linkov,et al.  Personality Characteristics and Aesthetic Preference for Chaotic Curves , 2004 .

[4]  Jane Prophet,et al.  Perspectives on Aesthetic Computing , 2005, Leonardo.

[5]  Nikos A. Salingaros,et al.  A Pattern Measure , 2000, 1108.5508.

[6]  D. Berlyne.  Studies in the New Experimental Aesthetics: Steps Toward an Objective Psychology of Aesthetic Appreciation, , 1974 .

[7]  R. Arnheim,et al.  Information Theory and Esthetic Perception , 1968 .

[8]  Gary R. Greenfield.  Color Dependent Computational Aesthetics for Evolving Expressions , 2002 .

[9]  Helmar G. Frank.  Grundlagenprobleme der Informationsästhetik und erste Anwendung auf die mime pure : mit 15 Abbildungen und einer Bildtafel , 1959 .

[10]  Petr Machala,et al.  Recent exact aesthetics applications , 2002, SIGGRAPH '02.

[11]  Frieder Nake,et al.  Computer art: a personal recollection , 2005, C&C '05.

[12]  G. Stiny,et al.  Algorithmic Aesthetics: Computer Models for Criticism and Design in the Arts , 1978 .

[13]  F. Nake.  Art in the Time of the Artificial , 2017 .

[14]  George David Birkhoff.  The collected mathematical papers , 1909 .

[15]  Vitorino Ramos.  On the Implicit and on the Artificial - Morphogenesis and Emergent Aesthetics in Autonomous Collective Systems , 2004, ArXiv.

[16]  Gary Greenfield.  Computational aesthetics as a tool for creativity , 2005, C&C '05.

[17]  Gary R. Greenfield,et al.  Simulated Aesthetics and Evolving Artworks: A Coevolutionary Approach , 2002, Leonardo.

[18]  Shumeet Baluja,et al.  Towards Automated Artificial Evolution for Computer-generated Images , 1993, Connect. Sci..

[19]  狷士 後藤,et al.  マックス・ベンゼ『美学』 : あたらしい美学へのてびき, Max Bense, Aesthetica-Einfuhrung in die neue Aesthetik Agis-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1965 , 1967 .