Computational Creativity: an evolutionary ecosystem approach

Understanding artistic creativity, and the ways in which computers can enhance that creativity, is a grand challenge for scientific research. This project will research new possibilities for the creative use of computers. Using models based on Darwinian evolution and ecosystem dynamics, the project will develop methodologies and software where human and machine work in a synergetic tandem, leading the computer to discover new creative ideas in a specific problem domain. The project will shed new light on creativity in humans and computers and has application to a wide variety of creative practice that uses technology.