Informatics Colloquium 26.11. Aesthetic Computing and Computational Aesthetics
Informatics Colloquium 26.11. 2019, 14:00 lecture hall D2
prof. Kang Zhang, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas,
Dallas, USA
Aesthetic Computing and Computational Aesthetics
Abstract: In this talk, we will introduce the recently emerging
interdisciplinary research topics of computational aesthetics and aesthetic
computing, and discuss their difference and complementary roles. As a case
study, the theories and practices of abstract painting and their existing and
potential applications in information visualization will be presented in the
context of aesthetic computing. We discuss the three dimensions of painting,
i.e. form, color, and texture, various visual cognition principles, and finally
aesthetic compositions used in abstract painting. Our objective is to bridge
visual art with information visualization, so that the latter could learn from
the former in creating more aesthetic visualizations and thus making the viewers
visualizing process a pleasant experience. In the context of computational
aesthetics, we provide a classification scheme on the complexity of intelligence
in generative art with example of generation approaches. Based on Birkhoff’s
work on aesthetic measure, we review several recent attempts in computational
approaches to aesthetic measurement and complexity measurement for art works.