Selected list of publications
Computing with Living Components
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference, Rome, Italy, 2019
Art as a Living Interface
Proceedings of the Computer-Human Interaction Conference, Orlando, FL, 2019
Motivated Learning in Human-machine Improvisation
NIME2017, Proceedings of New Instruments for Musical Expression, Blacksburg, VA, 2018
Crickets (an Interactive Ecosystem)
Proceedings of the Computer-Human Interaction Conference, San Jose, CA, 2017
From Responsive Art to Interactive Ecosystems
Generative Arts Conference, Rome, Italy 2017
Improvisation as Speculative Computing
ICW2017, International Workshop on Improvisation, Monash University, Prato, Italy, 2017
Açores - A Systemic Island,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference, Florence, Italy, December 2016
Life-like Behavior in a Gestural Interface for Interacting with Sound,
12th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2016
Beyls, Peter and Perrotta, Andre: Rainforest, an Interactive Ecosystem,
Proceedings of CHI2016, San Jose, CA, ACM, 2016
Eargram/Actors – An Interactive System Based on Social Behavior
(with Gilberto Bernardes and Marcelo Caetano), CITAR Journal, volume 6, nr. 1, Porto, 2015
Towards Emergent Gestural Interaction,
Proceedings of Generative Arts Conference 2015, Venice, Italy, December 2015
Drawing is a Thinking Machine (Tekenen, publication in Dutch),
DW&B, Dietsche Warande en Belfort, MER Publishing, Belgium, 2015
The Emergence of Complex Behavior as an Organizational Paradigm for Concatenative Sound Synthesis, (with Gilberto Bernardes and Marcelo Caetano), xCoAx – Computing and Aesthetics Conference 2015, University of Glasgow, UK, 2015
Stormy Weather, Database-oriented Emergent Sonification
NIME2015 Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2015
Cognitive Issues in Coding for Art,
STAR2014 – International Conference on Science Technology Art Relations, Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2014
Simple Thoughts,
Peter Beyls Monograph, MER Paperkunsthalle Publishing, Ghent, Belgium, November 2014
Selected Work,
Peter Beyls Monograph, MER Paperkunsthalle Publishing, Ghent, Belgium, October 2014
Database-driven Mapping of Complex Dynamical Systems,
Proceedings of xCoAx2014, Computation Communication Aesthetics and X Conference, Porto, 2014
Bit-by-Bit.
Introductory text to solo exhibition at DAM, Exhibition catalog, DAM Publishing, Frankfurt, 2013
Autonomy, influence and emergence in an audio-visual ecosystem,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference 2012, Lucca, Italy, 2012
Interaction in Hybrid Spaces,
Proceedings of ISEA, The International Symposium of Electronic Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2012
London Orbital,
GASATHJ, Generative Art, Science and Technology Hard Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Rome, Italy, 2012
Interfacing The Earth,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2012
Found Systems as Glitch Culture, Peter Beyls & Jerry Galle,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference 2011, Rome, Italy
Structural Coupling in a Society of Musical Agents, Book chapter,
in: Artificial Life and Music, E. Miranda (ed.), A-R Editions, Evanston, WI, 2011
The Headless Horseman,
Contemporary Music in Flanders, Ed. Marc Delaere, KU Leuven, 2010
Web-based Real-time Sonification of the Amsterdam Harbor,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, New York, 2010.
The Presumption of Ada Lovelace. Computer Art; the First Twenty Years.
In: Longing for Abstraction. Exhibition catalogue Felix De Boeck Museum, Belgium, 2010
Introductory note and contextualisation of Petri; an interactive audiovisual installation.
in: UPDATE_III, exhibition catalogue, Lieds-Meesen Foundation, Belgium, 2010.
Cellular Automata as Excitable Media. Synthesis of Spatiotemporal Patterns from Cellular Automata Exited by Human Brainwaves, Research proposal, St Lukas University College of Art and Design, Brussels & University of Plymouth, UK, 2009
Interactive Composing as the Expression of Autonomous Machine Motivations,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2009
On-line Development of Human-Machine Relationships: Motivation-driven Musical Interaction,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference, Polytechnic University, Milan, Italy, C Soddu (ed.) 2008
Interaction and Self-organisation in a Society of Musical Agents,
ECAL, 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007
Interaction in Context,
KASK Cahier, University College Ghent, September 2006 (N/E)
Fingertips,
in: UPDATE_1 catalogue, Lieds-Meesen Foundation, Biënnale of Digital Art, Ghent 2006
Introducing Virtual Robotics,
Transfiguration Conference, OKNO, Brussels 2006
A molecular collision model of musical interaction,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Symposium GA2005, Milan, C Soddu (ed.) 2005
Evolving adaptive sensors in a synthetic listener,
Proceedings of ICMC, Pompeu-Fabra University, Barcelona 2005
Cellular Automata Mapping procedures,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, University of Florida, Miami, November 2004
Selectionist Musical Automata,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Symposium GA2003, Milan, C Soddu, (ed.) 2003
Integrating explicit instruction and evolutionary algorithms,
Proceedings of the IX Brazilian Computer Music Conference, University of Campinas, Brazil 2003
Genetic Algorithms for Interactive Composing,
SONY Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France 2003
Synthetic Creatures in Context,
Proceedings of INTERSENS 2000, in: Bulletin d’informatique Approfondie et Applications, Université de Provence, Marseilles 2002
Evolutionary strategies for spontaneous man-machine interaction,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Beijing, China 1999
Artificial life and the Arts,
Cybertheatre Webcast Lecture Series, Cybertheatre Brussels, February 1998
Synthetic Creatures in Context,
ISEA 98 Symposium Proceedings, Liverpool and Manchester 1998
Interactive Cellular Automata,
ISEA 98 Symposium -- John Moores University, Liverpool 1998 (CD-ROM)
Actors, a musical ecosystem,
ISEA 98 Symposium -- John Moores University, Liverpool 1998 (CD-ROM)
Statements, ICC Artists' Database - Working Research Version, 1997,
CD ROM produced by Intercommunication Centre NTT, Tokyo 1997
The agents paradigm in art and science,
International Symposium on Art and Technology, V2 Organization, Rotterdam 1996
A survey of agents based real-time interactive systems,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 1997, Thessaloniki, Oct. 1997
Principles of biological evolution and social computing in the arts,
ISEA 97 Conference, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Oct. 1997
Aesthetic Navigation: musical complexity engineering using genetic algorithms,
Proceedings of the JIM Conference, Lyon, May 1997
Artificial Creativity Panel (Nake, Sperka, Levy, Hofstadter and Beyls),
ISEA-95 Conference, Université de Quebec, Montreal, September 1995
Introduction to the panel on Algorithms,
Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH-95 Conference, Los Angeles, CA August 1995
Algorithms for conceptual navigation,
Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH-95 Conference, Los Angeles, CA August 1995
Art Education in the Binary Era,
AVE Symposium, V2 Organization Rotterdam, March 1995
Algorithms (statement on the panel on Algorithms and the Artist),
ISEA94 Conference, Helsinki, September 1994
Creativity and computation. Tracing attitudes and motives,
ISEA93 Symposium Proceedings, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MO, September 1993
Dynamic models for musical interaction in virtual reality,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 1992
Statement, Virtual Worlds, exhibition catalogue,
International Cultural Centre. Antwerp 1992
Self-organizing control structures using multiple cellular automata,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Montreal 1991
Chaos and Creativity. The dynamic Systems approach to musical composition,
Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 1 nr. 1 Pergamon Press 1991
Towards self-organizing control structures,
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Man-Machine Interaction, Pisa, Italy 1991
Chaos and Creativity,
ISEA Conference, SCAN Publications, Groningen, Holland 1991
Behavioural models for interactive composing,
EMS, Stockholm International Symposium on Computer Music, 1991
Discovery through interaction: a cognitive approach to computer media in the visual arts,
Leonardo Journal of the arts and sciences, Vol. 24 nr. 3 Pergamon Press, UK 1991
Symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches to visual intelligence, an exploratory study,
Proceedings of the IMAGINA Conference, Monte Carlo, Monaco 1991
Complex dynamics and musical creativity,
Proceedings of the SISEA Conference, SCAN (ed.) Groningen 1990
Sub-symbolic approaches to musical composition, a behavioural model,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Glasgow 1990
Musical morphologies from self-organising systems,
Interface Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 19, Nr 2-3, Swetts and Zeitlinger, 1990
The emergence of musical structures from self-organisation,
Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Music, Genoa, Italy 1989
The musical universe of cellular automata,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Columbus, OH 1989
Introducing Oscar,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Cologne, Germany 1988
Recent work in AI and music with lines for the future.
Proceedings of the European conference on computer music, Rome, Italy 1988
Intimate Machine Interaction; an illustrated definition,
The Visual Computer, Vol. 1, Nr. 1, Springer, 1990
Artificial Intelligence and the Visual Arts,
Konsthogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden 1988
Knowledge-based systems in the arts,
Intelligent Images Forum, IMAGINA Conference Proceedings, Monte Carlo, Monaco 1988
Interactive Media,
in: Da Vinci Quartely, vol. 3 nr. 6 Brussels 1985
ASA Drawings,
in: Belgian Assembly, Schraenen (ed.) Antwerp 1984
THRESH
Computer Graphics Work 1979-83, An-Hyp (ed.) Antwerp 1984
Expanded Media,
International Computer Art Festival, Omegalfa Pub. Brussels 1981
Reflections on Computer Art,
International Computer Art Festival, Omegalfa Pub. Brussels 1981
A personal approach,
International Media Festival, TATA Publications, Tokyo. Japan 1981
Search Programs,
in: Aspects of the Computer in the Visual Arts, ICSAC Publications, Brussels 1981
On complexity and interaction,
Symposium Art et Ordinateur, Centre Culturel Suedois, Paris, France 1979
Personal Statement.
PAGE, Computer Arts Society, Boreham (ed.) London, UK 1979
Computer Drawings,
Working Information, Jean Spencer (ed.) London, UK 1978
Computing with Living Components
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference, Rome, Italy, 2019
Art as a Living Interface
Proceedings of the Computer-Human Interaction Conference, Orlando, FL, 2019
Motivated Learning in Human-machine Improvisation
NIME2017, Proceedings of New Instruments for Musical Expression, Blacksburg, VA, 2018
Crickets (an Interactive Ecosystem)
Proceedings of the Computer-Human Interaction Conference, San Jose, CA, 2017
From Responsive Art to Interactive Ecosystems
Generative Arts Conference, Rome, Italy 2017
Improvisation as Speculative Computing
ICW2017, International Workshop on Improvisation, Monash University, Prato, Italy, 2017
Açores - A Systemic Island,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference, Florence, Italy, December 2016
Life-like Behavior in a Gestural Interface for Interacting with Sound,
12th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2016
Beyls, Peter and Perrotta, Andre: Rainforest, an Interactive Ecosystem,
Proceedings of CHI2016, San Jose, CA, ACM, 2016
Eargram/Actors – An Interactive System Based on Social Behavior
(with Gilberto Bernardes and Marcelo Caetano), CITAR Journal, volume 6, nr. 1, Porto, 2015
Towards Emergent Gestural Interaction,
Proceedings of Generative Arts Conference 2015, Venice, Italy, December 2015
Drawing is a Thinking Machine (Tekenen, publication in Dutch),
DW&B, Dietsche Warande en Belfort, MER Publishing, Belgium, 2015
The Emergence of Complex Behavior as an Organizational Paradigm for Concatenative Sound Synthesis, (with Gilberto Bernardes and Marcelo Caetano), xCoAx – Computing and Aesthetics Conference 2015, University of Glasgow, UK, 2015
Stormy Weather, Database-oriented Emergent Sonification
NIME2015 Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2015
Cognitive Issues in Coding for Art,
STAR2014 – International Conference on Science Technology Art Relations, Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2014
Simple Thoughts,
Peter Beyls Monograph, MER Paperkunsthalle Publishing, Ghent, Belgium, November 2014
Selected Work,
Peter Beyls Monograph, MER Paperkunsthalle Publishing, Ghent, Belgium, October 2014
Database-driven Mapping of Complex Dynamical Systems,
Proceedings of xCoAx2014, Computation Communication Aesthetics and X Conference, Porto, 2014
Bit-by-Bit.
Introductory text to solo exhibition at DAM, Exhibition catalog, DAM Publishing, Frankfurt, 2013
Autonomy, influence and emergence in an audio-visual ecosystem,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference 2012, Lucca, Italy, 2012
Interaction in Hybrid Spaces,
Proceedings of ISEA, The International Symposium of Electronic Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2012
London Orbital,
GASATHJ, Generative Art, Science and Technology Hard Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Rome, Italy, 2012
Interfacing The Earth,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2012
Found Systems as Glitch Culture, Peter Beyls & Jerry Galle,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference 2011, Rome, Italy
Structural Coupling in a Society of Musical Agents, Book chapter,
in: Artificial Life and Music, E. Miranda (ed.), A-R Editions, Evanston, WI, 2011
The Headless Horseman,
Contemporary Music in Flanders, Ed. Marc Delaere, KU Leuven, 2010
Web-based Real-time Sonification of the Amsterdam Harbor,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, New York, 2010.
The Presumption of Ada Lovelace. Computer Art; the First Twenty Years.
In: Longing for Abstraction. Exhibition catalogue Felix De Boeck Museum, Belgium, 2010
Introductory note and contextualisation of Petri; an interactive audiovisual installation.
in: UPDATE_III, exhibition catalogue, Lieds-Meesen Foundation, Belgium, 2010.
Cellular Automata as Excitable Media. Synthesis of Spatiotemporal Patterns from Cellular Automata Exited by Human Brainwaves, Research proposal, St Lukas University College of Art and Design, Brussels & University of Plymouth, UK, 2009
Interactive Composing as the Expression of Autonomous Machine Motivations,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2009
On-line Development of Human-Machine Relationships: Motivation-driven Musical Interaction,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Conference, Polytechnic University, Milan, Italy, C Soddu (ed.) 2008
Interaction and Self-organisation in a Society of Musical Agents,
ECAL, 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007
Interaction in Context,
KASK Cahier, University College Ghent, September 2006 (N/E)
Fingertips,
in: UPDATE_1 catalogue, Lieds-Meesen Foundation, Biënnale of Digital Art, Ghent 2006
Introducing Virtual Robotics,
Transfiguration Conference, OKNO, Brussels 2006
A molecular collision model of musical interaction,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Symposium GA2005, Milan, C Soddu (ed.) 2005
Evolving adaptive sensors in a synthetic listener,
Proceedings of ICMC, Pompeu-Fabra University, Barcelona 2005
Cellular Automata Mapping procedures,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, University of Florida, Miami, November 2004
Selectionist Musical Automata,
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Symposium GA2003, Milan, C Soddu, (ed.) 2003
Integrating explicit instruction and evolutionary algorithms,
Proceedings of the IX Brazilian Computer Music Conference, University of Campinas, Brazil 2003
Genetic Algorithms for Interactive Composing,
SONY Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France 2003
Synthetic Creatures in Context,
Proceedings of INTERSENS 2000, in: Bulletin d’informatique Approfondie et Applications, Université de Provence, Marseilles 2002
Evolutionary strategies for spontaneous man-machine interaction,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Beijing, China 1999
Artificial life and the Arts,
Cybertheatre Webcast Lecture Series, Cybertheatre Brussels, February 1998
Synthetic Creatures in Context,
ISEA 98 Symposium Proceedings, Liverpool and Manchester 1998
Interactive Cellular Automata,
ISEA 98 Symposium -- John Moores University, Liverpool 1998 (CD-ROM)
Actors, a musical ecosystem,
ISEA 98 Symposium -- John Moores University, Liverpool 1998 (CD-ROM)
Statements, ICC Artists' Database - Working Research Version, 1997,
CD ROM produced by Intercommunication Centre NTT, Tokyo 1997
The agents paradigm in art and science,
International Symposium on Art and Technology, V2 Organization, Rotterdam 1996
A survey of agents based real-time interactive systems,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 1997, Thessaloniki, Oct. 1997
Principles of biological evolution and social computing in the arts,
ISEA 97 Conference, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Oct. 1997
Aesthetic Navigation: musical complexity engineering using genetic algorithms,
Proceedings of the JIM Conference, Lyon, May 1997
Artificial Creativity Panel (Nake, Sperka, Levy, Hofstadter and Beyls),
ISEA-95 Conference, Université de Quebec, Montreal, September 1995
Introduction to the panel on Algorithms,
Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH-95 Conference, Los Angeles, CA August 1995
Algorithms for conceptual navigation,
Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH-95 Conference, Los Angeles, CA August 1995
Art Education in the Binary Era,
AVE Symposium, V2 Organization Rotterdam, March 1995
Algorithms (statement on the panel on Algorithms and the Artist),
ISEA94 Conference, Helsinki, September 1994
Creativity and computation. Tracing attitudes and motives,
ISEA93 Symposium Proceedings, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MO, September 1993
Dynamic models for musical interaction in virtual reality,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 1992
Statement, Virtual Worlds, exhibition catalogue,
International Cultural Centre. Antwerp 1992
Self-organizing control structures using multiple cellular automata,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Montreal 1991
Chaos and Creativity. The dynamic Systems approach to musical composition,
Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 1 nr. 1 Pergamon Press 1991
Towards self-organizing control structures,
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Man-Machine Interaction, Pisa, Italy 1991
Chaos and Creativity,
ISEA Conference, SCAN Publications, Groningen, Holland 1991
Behavioural models for interactive composing,
EMS, Stockholm International Symposium on Computer Music, 1991
Discovery through interaction: a cognitive approach to computer media in the visual arts,
Leonardo Journal of the arts and sciences, Vol. 24 nr. 3 Pergamon Press, UK 1991
Symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches to visual intelligence, an exploratory study,
Proceedings of the IMAGINA Conference, Monte Carlo, Monaco 1991
Complex dynamics and musical creativity,
Proceedings of the SISEA Conference, SCAN (ed.) Groningen 1990
Sub-symbolic approaches to musical composition, a behavioural model,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Glasgow 1990
Musical morphologies from self-organising systems,
Interface Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 19, Nr 2-3, Swetts and Zeitlinger, 1990
The emergence of musical structures from self-organisation,
Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Music, Genoa, Italy 1989
The musical universe of cellular automata,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Columbus, OH 1989
Introducing Oscar,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Cologne, Germany 1988
Recent work in AI and music with lines for the future.
Proceedings of the European conference on computer music, Rome, Italy 1988
Intimate Machine Interaction; an illustrated definition,
The Visual Computer, Vol. 1, Nr. 1, Springer, 1990
Artificial Intelligence and the Visual Arts,
Konsthogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden 1988
Knowledge-based systems in the arts,
Intelligent Images Forum, IMAGINA Conference Proceedings, Monte Carlo, Monaco 1988
Interactive Media,
in: Da Vinci Quartely, vol. 3 nr. 6 Brussels 1985
ASA Drawings,
in: Belgian Assembly, Schraenen (ed.) Antwerp 1984
THRESH
Computer Graphics Work 1979-83, An-Hyp (ed.) Antwerp 1984
Expanded Media,
International Computer Art Festival, Omegalfa Pub. Brussels 1981
Reflections on Computer Art,
International Computer Art Festival, Omegalfa Pub. Brussels 1981
A personal approach,
International Media Festival, TATA Publications, Tokyo. Japan 1981
Search Programs,
in: Aspects of the Computer in the Visual Arts, ICSAC Publications, Brussels 1981
On complexity and interaction,
Symposium Art et Ordinateur, Centre Culturel Suedois, Paris, France 1979
Personal Statement.
PAGE, Computer Arts Society, Boreham (ed.) London, UK 1979
Computer Drawings,
Working Information, Jean Spencer (ed.) London, UK 1978