Creative Evolution
Natural Selection and the Urge to Remix
edited by Mark Amerika
Introduction: What Is Creativity?
What is Creativity?
In his Process and Reality
Alfred North Whitehead writes that
Creativity is the principle of novelty.
The concept of novelty or more specifically
novelty generation as the modus operandi of
all living creatures mutating in the remix pool
relates to current trends in networked art
where the artist-as-medium postproduces
the Source Material Everywhere
as part of a larger co-poietic unfolding
inside the networked space of flows (more...)
Readings
- Cheryl A. Kerfeld
- When Art, Science, and Culture Commingle
- David P. Barash
- Biology Lurks Beneath: Bioliterary Explorations of the Individual versus Society
- Liane Gabora
- The Beer Can Theory of Creativity
- Elena Daprati, Marco Iosa, Patrick Haggard
- A Dance to the Music of Time: Aesthetically-Relevant Changes in Body Posture in Performing Art
- Marco Iacoboni, Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, Vittorio Gallese, Giovanni Buccino, John C. Mazziotta, Giacomo Rizzolatti
- Grasping the Intentions of Others with One’s Own Mirror Neuron System
- Chrisantha Fernando, K.K. Karishma, Eors Szathmary
- Copying and Evolution of Neuronal Topology
- Steven P. DiPaola and Liane Gabora
- Incorporating Characteristics of Human Creativity into an Evolutionary Art Algorithm
- Richard Samuels
- Is the Mind Massively Modular?
- Johan De Smedt
- Toward an Integrative Approach of Cognitive Neuroscientific and Evolutionary Psychological Studies of Art
- Mark Amerika
- Source Material Everywhere
- Mark Amerika
- Ghost Tendencies
- John Egenes
- Commentary: The Remix Culture; How the Folk Process Works in the 21st Century
- Geoffrey F. Miller
- Aesthetic fitness: How Sexual Selection Shaped Artistic Virtuosity as a Fitness Indicator and Aesthetic Preferences as Mate Choice Criteria
- Julie Copeland
- The Creative Urge: Elizabeth Grosz