Creative Evolution

edited by Mark Amerika

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

This ongoing remix practice
procured by all living creatures
feels like an innate biological imperative
one that indicates an aesthetically charged culture of
intersubjective jamming where
the cut-and-paste as-you-go
open source lifestyle practice of
the artist-as-live-medium stimulates
the creative environment to the point of excess (more...)

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1. Cheryl A. Kerfeld
When Art, Science, and Culture Commingle

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000100

2. David P. Barash

Biology Lurks Beneath: Bioliterary Explorations of the Individual versus Society

http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep02200219.pdf

3. Liane Gabora

The Beer Can Theory of Creativity

http://cogprints.org/4768/1/beercan.htm

4. Elena Daprati, Marco Iosa, Patrick Haggard

A Dance to the Music of Time: Aesthetically-Relevant Changes in Body Posture in Performing Art

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005023

5. 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

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1044835/pdf/pbio.0030079.pdf

6. Chrisantha Fernando, K.K. Karishma, Eors Szathmary

Copying and Evolution of Neuronal Topology

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003775

7. Steven P. DiPaola and Liane Gabora

Incorporating Characteristics of Human Creativity into an Evolutionary Art Algorithm

http://cogprints.org/6767/

8. Richard Samuels

Is the Mind Massively Modular?

http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/944/

9. Johan De Smedt

Toward an Integrative Approach of Cognitive Neuroscientific and Evolutionary Psychological Studies of Art

www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP08695719.pdf

10. Mark Amerika

Source Material Everywhere

http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/viewArticle/351

11. Mark Amerika

Ghost Tendencies

http://www.vjtheory.net/web_texts/text_amerika.htm

12. John Egenes

Commentary: The Remix Culture; How the Folk Process Works in the 21st Century

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=abstract&id=614106&q1=remix&f1=all&b1=and&q2=&f2=all&recNo=2&uiLanguage=en

See also these articles that are copyrighted but are still available to read for free on the Internet:

13. Geoffrey F. Miller

Aesthetic fitness: How Sexual Selection Shaped Artistic Virtuosity as a Fitness Indicator
and Aesthetic Preferences as Mate Choice Criteria

http://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/aesthetic_fitness.htm

14. Julie Copeland

The Creative Urge: Elizabeth Grosz
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/sunmorn/stories/s1381964.htm

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