Jon McCormack
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Jon McCormack is an Australian-based electronic media artist and researcher in computing. He holds an Honours degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Monash University, a Graduate Diploma of Art (Film and Television) from Swinburne University and a PhD in Computer Science from Monash University. He is currently Associate Professor in Computer Science, an ARC Australian Research Fellow and co-director of the Centre for Electronic Media Art (CEMA) at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. CEMA is an interdisciplinary research centre established to explore new collaborative relationships between computing and the arts. His research interests include generative art and design, evolutionary systems, creativity, visualisation, interaction, machine learning, L-systems and developmental models.
Since the late 1980s McCormack has worked with computer code as a medium for creative expression. Inspired by the complexity and wonder of a diminishing natural world, his work is concerned with electronic “after natures” – alternate forms of artificial life that may one day replace the biological nature lost through human progress and development.
His artworks have been widely exhibited at leading galleries, museums and symposia, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Tate Gallery (Liverpool, UK), ACM SIGGRAPH (USA), Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Australia). He is the recipient of 16 awards for new media art and computing research including prizes at Ars Electronica (Austria), Images du Futur (Canada), New Voices, New Visions (USA), Alias/Wavefront (USA), The John Lansdown Award for Interactive Media (Europe/UK), Nagoya Biennial (Japan) and the 2012 Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science. The monograph, Impossible Nature: the art of Jon McCormack, was published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in 2005 and documents McCormack’s creative achievements over the last 15 years.
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2014
- Jon McCormack, Oliver Bown, Alan Dorin, J. McCabe, G. Monro and Mitchell Whitelaw, "Ten Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art", Leonardo Vol. 47, No. 2 (2014), pp. 135-141, MIT Press http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/TenQuestionsLJ-Preprint.pdf
- Jon McCormack and M. d'Inverno, "On the Future of Computers and Creativity", AISB 2014 Symposium on Computational Creativity, London, 1–4 April 2014 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/AISB14McCormack-dInverno.pdf
- Jon McCormack: Balancing Act: Variation and Utility in Evolutionary Art. In: EvoMUSART 2014, S. 26-37. DOI: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-662-44335-4_3 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/McCormack_EvoMUSART2014.pdf
2013
- Jon McCormack: ‘Jon McCormack: Eden’, in Peter Weibel and Ljiljana Fruk (eds), Molecular Aesthetics, ZKM Books/MIT Press, Karlsruhe/Boston, pp. 258-260, 2013 http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/molecular-aesthetics
- Jon McCormack: "Evolutionary and A-Life Art: Cosmic Pyramids and the Origination of Novelty in Machines" (English with Russian translation) in Dmitry Bulatov (ed), Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age (Part 2: Theory), National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad, Russia, pp. 84-101, 2013.
- Jon McCormack: "Representation and Mimesis in Generative Art: Creating Fifty Sisters" in Proceedings of xCoAx 2013, Bergamo, Italy 27-28 June 2013, pp. 71-79 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/xcoax2013-mccormack.pdf
- Jon McCormack: Aesthetics, Art, Evolution. In: EvoMUSART 2013, 1-12. DOI: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-36955-1_1 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/McCormackEvoMUSART2013.pdf
2012
Jon McCormack, Pablo eCasso: in search of the first computer masterpiece, The Conversation, 15 November 2012
- Alan Dorin, J. McCabe, * Jon McCormack, G. Monro and M. Whitelaw, "A Framework for Understanding Generative Art", Digital Creativity, Vol. 23(3-4), pp. 239-259, 2012.
- Jon McCormack and M. d'Inverno (eds) Computers and Creativity, Springer, Heidelberg, 2012.
- Jon McCormack: Creative ecosystems. In: McCormack & d’Inverno: Computers and Creativity, Springer, Berlin, 2012, 39-60 DOI: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31727-9_2 http://jonmccormack.info/~jonmc/sa/research/creative-ecosystems/ http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/EcoCreativity.pdf
- H. Cohen, F. Nake, D. C. Brown, P. Brown, Philip Galanter, Jon McCormack and M. d'Inverno: Evaluation of Creative Aesthetics. In Jon McCormack and M. d'Inverno (eds) Computers and Creativity, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 95-111, 2012 DOI: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31727-9_4
- Jon McCormack and M. d'Inverno: Computers and Creativity: The Road Ahead. In: Jon McCormack and M. d'Inverno (eds) Computers and Creativity, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 421-424, 2012 DOI: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31727-9_16
A. Pirnia and * Jon McCormack, "Compressed Multidimensional Trees for Evolutionary Music Representation", International Computer Music Conference, Irzu, Ljubljana 9-14 September 2012, pp. 608-613 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/ICMC2012_Pirnia_McCormack.pdf
- T. Kowaliw, Alan Dorin and * Jon McCormack: Promoting Creative Design in Interactive Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol 16(4), pp. 523-536, 2012 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/evoeco/kowaliw_evoeco_tec2011.pdf https://vimeo.com/29488209 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/evoeco/
2011
Jon McCormack and P. McIlwain, "Generative Composition with Nodal", in E. R. Miranda (ed): A-Life for Music: Music and Computer Models of Living Systems, A-R Editions, Inc. Middleton, Wisconsin, 2011, pp. 99-113
T. Kowaliw, Jon McCormack and Alan Dorin, An Interactive Electronic Art System Based on Artificial Ecosystemics, 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - SSCI 2011) April 11-15, 2011 - Paris, France, IEEE 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0470-3, pp. 162-169 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/evoeco/kowaliw_evoeco_SSCI2011.pdf http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/evoeco/
Oliver Bown, Jon McCormack and T. Kowaliw, Ecosystemic methods for creative domains: niche construction and boundary formation, 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - SSCI 2011) April 11-15, 2011 - Paris, France, IEEE 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0470-3, pp. 132-139 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/bown_mccormack_kowaliw_ieee-alife11.pdf
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