Creative Evolution
Creative Evolution: Natural Selection and the Urge to Remix
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...)
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