By Associate Professor Oliver Bown

Books

Bown O, 2021, Beyond the Creative Species Making Machines That Make Art and Music, MIT Press

Book Chapters

Marynowski W; Knowles J; Bown O, 2023, 'Sonic robotics: musical genres as platforms for understanding robotic performance as cultural events', in Dunstan B; Koh J; Turnbull Tilman D; Brown S (ed.), Cultural Robotics 2.0

Bown O, 2021, 'Risk, creative spaces and creative identity in creative technologies research (or why it's okay for academic creative technology outputs to look scrappy and be buggy)', in The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research, pp. 614 - 621

Bown O, 2021, 'Sociocultural and Design Perspectives on AI-Based Music Production: Why Do We Make Music and What Changes if AI Makes It for Us?', in Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72116-9_1

Bown O; Brown A, 2018, 'Interaction Design for Metacreative Systems', in New Directions in Third Wave Human-Computer Interaction: Volume 1 - Technologies, Springer, pp. 67 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73356-2_5

Eldridge A; Bown O, 2018, 'Biologically Inspired and Agent-Based Algorithms for Music', in Dean RT; McLean A (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music, Oxford University Press, pp. 209 - 244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190226992.013.18

Bown O; Gough P; Tomitsch M, 2017, 'Learning design through facilitating collaborative design: Incorporating service learning into a first year undergraduate design degree course', in Collaboration and Student Engagement in Design Education, pp. 209 - 229, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0726-0.ch010

Bown O; Gemeinboeck P; Saunders R, 2014, 'The machine as autonomous performer', in Candy L; Ferguson S (ed.), Interactive Experience in the Digital Age, edn. Springer Series on Cultural Computing, Springer, pp. 75 - 90, http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/book/978-3-319-04509-2

Bown O, 2012, 'Generative and adaptive creativity: A unified approach to creativity in nature, humans and machines', in Computers and Creativity, pp. 361 - 381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31727-9_14

Blackwell T; Bown O; Young M, 2012, 'Live algorithms: Towards autonomous computer improvisers', in Computers and Creativity, pp. 147 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31727-9_6

Blackwell T; Young M; Bown O, 2012, 'Live Algorithms: towards autonomous computer improvisers', in Computers and Creativity, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 147 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31727-9

Bown O, 2012, 'Generative and Adaptive Creativity', in Computers and Creativity, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 361 - 381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31727-9

Edited Books

Loke L, (ed.), 2015, Musify+Gamify Exhibition Catalogue

Journal articles

Gough P; Bown O; Campbell CR; Poronnik P; Ross PM, 2023, 'Student responses to creative coding in biomedical science education', Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 51, pp. 44 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21692

Robinson FA; Velonaki M; Bown O, 2022, 'Crafting the Language of Robotic Agents: A vision for electroacoustic music in human-robot interaction', Organised Sound, 27, pp. 206 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355771822000358

Robinson FA; Bown O; Velonaki M, 2022, 'Designing Sound for Social Robots: Candidate Design Principles', International Journal of Social Robotics, 14, pp. 1507 - 1525, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00891-0

Bown O; Ferguson S; Dias Pereira Dos Santos A; Mikolajczyk K, 2021, 'Hacking the Medium: Shaping the creative constraints of network architectures in multiplicitous media artworks', Organised Sound, 26, pp. 305 - 316, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S135577182100039X

Bown O; Ferguson S; Dos Santos ADP; Mikolajczyk K, 2021, 'Supporting Creative Practice in Wireless Distributed Sound Installations Given Technical Constraints', JOURNAL OF THE AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY, 69, pp. 757 - 767, http://dx.doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2021.0039

Pasquier P; Eigenfeldt A; Bown O, 2021, 'Preface', Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 8, pp. vii - vii, http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v8i4.12568

Pasquier P; Eigenfeldt A; Bown O, 2021, 'Preface', Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 10, pp. vii - vii, http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v10i5.12774

Fraietta A; Bown O; Ferguson S; Gillespie S; Bray L, 2020, 'Rapid composition for networked devices: Happybrackets', Computer Music Journal, 43, pp. 89 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/COMJ_a_00520

Bown O; Ferguson S, 2018, 'Understanding media multiplicities', Entertainment Computing, 25, pp. 62 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2017.11.001

Bown O; Ferguson S, 2018, 'Creative media + the internet of things = media multiplicities', Leonardo, 51, pp. 53 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01549

Bown O, 2018, 'Performer interaction and expectation with live algorithms: experiences with Zamyatin', Digital Creativity, 29, pp. 37 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2018.1432663

Martin A; Jin CT; Bown O, 2018, 'Design and Evaluation of Agents that Sequence and Juxtapose Short Musical Patterns in Real Time', Computer Music Journal, 41, pp. 45 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/comj_a_00439

Bech T; Sun D; Su P; Chanel D-A; Constant R; Rowe A; Birtles L; Bennewith C; Bown O, 2017, 'Demo hour', Interactions, 24, pp. 10 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3044536

Pasquier P; Eigenfeldt A; Bown O; Dubnov S, 2016, 'An introduction to musical metacreation', Computers in Entertainment, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2930672

Bown O; Eigenfeldt A; Pasquier P; Dubnov S, 2016, 'Special issue on musical metacreation, part I', Computers in Entertainment, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3024062

Bown O; Eigenfeldt A; Pasquier P; Dubnov S, 2016, 'Special issue on Musical Metacreation, part II', Computers in Entertainment, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3029374

Brucker-Cohen J; Bech T; Rowe A; Bushell G; Birtles L; Bennewith C; Bown O; Sun D; Su P; Roy N; Jan V; Morozov D; Digumarti T; Alonso-Mora J; Siegwart R; Beardsley P; Jacobsen M; Chanel DA; Constant R; Grosser B, 2016, 'Data materialities art gallery curator', Leonardo, 49, pp. 352 - 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01289

Saunders R; Bown O, 2015, 'Computational Social Creativity', Artificial Life, 21, pp. 366 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00177

Saunders R; Bown O, 2015, 'Computational Social Creativity', Artificial Life, 21, pp. 366 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00177

Bown O; Britton S, 2014, 'An Album in 1,000 Variations: Notes on the Composition and Distribution of a Parametric Musical Work', Leonardo, 47, pp. 437 - 441, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00866

McCormack J; Bown O; Dorin A; McCabe J; Monro G; Whitelaw M, 2014, 'Ten Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art', Leonardo, 47, pp. 135 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00533

Bown O; Eigenfeldt A; Hodhod R; Pasquier P; Swanson R; Ware SG; Zhu J, 2012, 'Reports on the 2012 AIIDE Workshops', AI Magazine, 34, pp. 90 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v34i1.2459

Bown O, 2011, 'Experiments in modular design for the creative composition of live algorithms', Computer Music Journal, 35, pp. 73 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/COMJ_a_00070

Bown O; Mccormack J, 2010, 'Taming nature: Tapping the creative potential of ecosystem models in the arts', Digital Creativity, 21, pp. 215 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2011.550029

Bown O; Wiggins G, 2009, 'From maladaptation to competition to cooperation in the evolution of musical behaviour', Musicae Scientiae, 13, pp. 387 - 411, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1029864909013002171

Bown O; Eldridge A; McCormack J, 2009, 'Understanding interaction in contemporary digital music: From instruments to behavioural objects', Organised Sound, 14, pp. 188 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355771809000296

Conference Papers

Andres J; Ocampo R; Bown O; Hill C; Pegram C; Schmidt A; Shave J; Wright B, 2023, 'The Human-Built Environment-Natural Environment Relation-An Immersive Multisensory Exploration with 'System of a Sound'', in International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI, ACM, pp. 8 - 11, presented at IUI '23: 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3581754.3584119

Ocampo R; Andres J; Schmidt A; Pegram C; Shave J; Hill C; Wright B; Bown O, 2023, 'Using GPT-3 to Achieve Semantically Relevant Data Sonificiation for an Art Installation', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 212 - 227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29956-8_14

Pepperkorn M; Saunders R; Bown O; Jordanous A, 2022, 'Mechanising Conceptual Spaces using Variational Autoencoders', in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Bolzano, Italy, pp. 287 - 290, presented at International Conference on Computational Creativity, Bolzano, Italy, 27 June 2022 - 01 July 2022, https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc22/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ICCC22_proceedings.pdf

Ibarrola F; Bown O; Grace K, 2022, 'Towards Co-Creative Drawing Based on Contrastive Language-Image Models', in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Balzano, Italy, pp. 96 - 100, presented at International Conference on Computational Creativity, Balzano, Italy, 27 June 2022 - 01 July 2022, https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc22/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ICCC22_proceedings.pdf

Ocampo R; Bown O; Grace K, 2022, 'A Framework for Dialogue-Based Human-AI Creative Collaboration', in GenAICHI: CHI 2022 Workshop on Generative AI and HCI, New Orleans, LA, presented at GenAICHI: CHI 2022 Workshop on Generative AI and HCI, New Orleans, LA, 30 April 2022 - 06 May 2022

Bown O; Mikolajczyk K; Samuel F; Benedict C, 2022, 'Buildings as Audio Visual Synthesisers: Experiments Performing Live Music on Wirelessly Networked Multi-Speaker Media Architectures', in Proceedings of the 2022 International Symposium on Electronic Art, Barcelona, presented at International Symposium on Electronic Art, Barcelona, - , http://dx.doi.org/10.7238/ISEA2022.Proceedings

Robinson FA; Velonaki M; Bown O, 2021, 'Smooth operator: Tuning robot perception through artificial movement sound', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, ACM, pp. 53 - 62, presented at HRI '21: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3434073.3444658

Pelikan H; Robinson FA; Keevallik L; Velonaki M; Broth M; Bown O, 2021, 'Sound in human-robot interaction', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, ACM, pp. 706 - 708, presented at HRI '21: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3444871

Bown O; Grace K; Bray L; Ventura D, 2020, 'A Speculative Exploration of the Role of Dialogue in Human-ComputerCo-creation', in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Coimbra, Portugal, presented at International Conference on Computational Creativity, Coimbra, Portugal, 07 September 2020 - 11 September 2020

Fraietta A; Bown O; Ferguson S, 2020, 'Transparent Communication Within Multiplicities', in Bown O; Ferguson S (ed.), Trento, Italy, pp. 61 - 72, presented at 1st International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds, Trento, Italy, 07 September 2020 - 08 September 2020

Bown O; Fraietta A; Ferguson S; Tillman D, 2020, 'Rapid Composition for a Multi-Device Networked Music Platform', in Spagnol S (ed.), Proceedings of the 17th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Torino, June 24th – 26th 2020, Torino, Italy, pp. 399 - 406, presented at Sound and Music Computing Conference, Torino, Italy, 24 June 2020 - 26 June 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3903573

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