Assoc Prof Alan Dorin - Researcher Profile

Biography

Alan's interests are primarily in the philosophy and application of the principles of artificial life, in particular self-assembly and ecosystem simulation, to generative electronic art. His formal background is in Computer Science and Interactive Media Art but his work-related interests include history, biology, philosophy and photography. He spends his time away from computers racing bicycles and climbing mountains.

Related Links:

• Alan Dorin's research homepage

Keywords

Artificial life, Behavioural animation, Computer Arts, Computer Music, Digital cinema, Generative electronic art, Virtual environments, digital design, electronic art

Qualifications

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1999

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA ANIMATION INTERACTIVE MEDIA

Institution: RMIT

Year awarded: 1995

COMPUTER SCIENCE (HONS I)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1992

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1991

Publications

Books

Dorin, A., McCormack, J.P. (eds), 2001, Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, MIT Press Journals, Cambridge MA USA.

Dorin, A. (ed), 2001, Second iteration - second international conference on generative systems in the electronic arts conference proceedings, Centre for Electronic Media Arts, Monash University, Clayton, Clayton Vic Australia.

Dorin, A., McCormack, J. (eds), 1999, First Iteration - A Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, Centre for Electronic Media Arts, Monash Univ.,, Clayton Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Korb, K.B., Geard, N., Dorin, A., 2013, A Bayesian approach to the validation of agent-based models, in Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for Modeling and Simulation, eds Andreas Tolk, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 255-269.

Dorin, A., Korb, K.B., 2012, Creativity refined: Bypassing the gatekeepers of appropriateness and value, in Computers and Creativity, eds Jon McCormack and Mark d’Inverno, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 339-360.

McCormack, J.P., Eldridge, A.C., Dorin, A., McIlwain, P.A., 2009, Generative algorithms for making music: Emergence, evolution, and ecosystems, in The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music, eds Roger T Dean, Oxford University Press, New York NY USA, pp. 354-379.

Dorin, A., 2008, A survey of virtual ecosystems in generative electronic art, in The Art of Artificial Evolution: A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and Music, eds Juan Romero and Penousal Machado, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 289-309.

Dorin, A., 2005, Enriching aesthetics with artificial life, in Artificial Life Models in Software, eds A Adamatzky and M Komosinski, Springer, London UK, pp. 323-335.

Dorin, A., 2004, Collaborating with the Siren: the aesthetics of digital life, in Impossible Nature, eds J McCormack, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Vic Australia, pp. 77-90.

Dorin, A., 2004, Virtual animals in virtual environments, in Biomediale: Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture, eds Dmitry Bulatov, The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad Russia, pp. 240-255.

Journal Articles

Dorin, A., McCabe, J., McCormack, J.P., Monro, G., Whitelaw, M., 2012, A framework for understanding generative art, Digital Creativity [P], vol 23, issue 3-4, Routledge, Abingdon England, pp. 239-259.

Kashmirian, J.M., Uhlherr, A., Dorin, A., Green, D.G., 2012, Molecular dynamics extended for fluctuating networks: Application to water, Journal Of Computational Chemistry [P], vol 33, issue 15, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden MA USA, pp. 1364-1373.

Kowaliw, T.M., Dorin, A., McCormack, J.P., 2012, Promoting creative design in interactive evolutionary computation, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation [P], vol 16, issue 4, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 523-536.

Korb, K., Dorin, A., 2011, Evolution unbound: Releasing the arrow of complexity, Biology & Philosophy [P], vol 26, issue 3, Springer, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 317-338.

Dorin, A., 2006, Metacreation: art and artificial life, Artificial Life, vol 12, issue 4, MIT Press, USA, pp. 635-637.

Dorin, A., 2004, Building artificial life for play, Artificial Life, vol 10, issue 1, MIT Press, Cambridge MA USA, pp. 99-112.

Dorin, A., 2003, Artifact & artifice: Views on life, Artificial Life, vol 9, issue 1, MIT Press, Cambridge MA USA, pp. 79-87.

Dorin, A., 2003, On wonder and betrayal: creating artificial life software to meet aesthetic goals, Kybernetes, vol 32, issue 1/2, Emerald, Bradford UK, pp. 131-143.

Dorin, A., 2001, Aesthetic fitness and artificial evolution for the selection of imagery from the mythical infinite library, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 2159, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Germany, pp. 659-668.

Dorin, A., 1998, Physically Based, Self-Organizing Cellular Automata, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 1544, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 74-87.

Conference Proceedings

Kowaliw, T.M., McCormack, J.P., Dorin, A., 2011, An interactive electronic art system based on artificial ecosystemics, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 11 April 2011 to 15 April 2011, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 162-169.

Kowaliw, T.M., McCormack, J.P., Dorin, A., 2010, Evolutionary automated recognition and characterization of an individual's artistic style, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2010), 18 July 2010 to 23 July 2010, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 2234-2241.

Dorin, A., Korb, K.B., 2010, Network measures of ecosystem complexity, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 19 August 2010 to 23 August 2010, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA USA, pp. 323-328.

Dorin, A., Korb, K.B., 2009, A new definition of creativity, Proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life: Borrowing from Biology (ACAL 2009), 1 December 2009 to 4 December 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 11-21.

Kowaliw, T.M., Dorin, A., McCormack, J.P., 2009, An empirical exploration of a definition of creative novelty for generative art, Proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life: Borrowing from Biology (ACAL 2009), 1 December 2009 to 4 December 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 1-10.

Eldridge, A.C., Dorin, A., 2009, Filterscape: Energy recycling in a creative ecosystem, Proceedings of EvoWorkshops 2009, 15 April 2009 to 17 April 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 508-517.

Dorin, A., 2009, Habitat: Engineering in a simulated audible ecosystem, Proceedings of EvoWorkshops 2009, 15 April 2009 to 17 April 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 488-497.

Dorin, A., Korb, K.B., Grimm, V., 2008, Artificial-life ecosystems: What are they and what could they become?, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE XI), 5 August 2008 to 8 August 2008, The MIT Press, London England UK, pp. 173-180.

Paperin, G., Sadedin, S., Green, D.G., Dorin, A., 2008, Holey fitness landscapes and the maintenance of evolutionary diversity, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE XI), 5 August 2008 to 8 August 2008, The MIT Press, London England, pp. 450-457.

Eldridge, A.C., Dorin, A., McCormack, J.P., 2008, Manipulating artificial ecosystems, Proceedings of the EvoWorkshops 2008: EvoCOMNET, EvoFIN, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, EvoNUM, EvoSTOC, and EvoTransLog, 26 March 2008 to 28 March 2008, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 392-401.

Dorin, A., Korb, K.B., 2007, Building virtual ecosystems from artificial chemistry, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), 10 September 2007 to 14 September 2007, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 103-112.

Paperin, G., Green, D.G., Dorin, A., 2007, Fitness landscapes in individual-based simulation models of adaptive radiation, Proceedings of the Computational Models for Life Sciences, 17 December 2007 to 19 December 2007, American Institute of Physics, Melville NY USA, pp. 268-278.

McCormack, J.P., McIlwain, P.A., Lane, A.A., Dorin, A., 2007, Generative composition with Nodal, Proceedings of the Workshop on Music and Artificial Life, 10 September 2007, ICCMR, Plymouth UK, pp. 1-13.

McIlwain, P.A., McCormack, J.P., Dorin, A., Lane, A.A., 2006, Composing with nodal networks, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2006, 11 July 2006 to 13 July 2006, Australasian Computer Music Association, Fitzroy Vic Australia, pp. 101-107.

Dorin, A., 2006, The sonic artificial ecosystem, Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2006, 11 July 2006 to 13 July 2006, Australasian Computer Music Association, Fitzroy Vic Australia, pp. 32-37.

Dorin, A., 2005, A co-evolutionary epidemiological model for artificial life and death, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 2005), 5 September 2005 to 9 September 2005, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 775-784.

Dorin, A., 2005, Artificial life, death and epidemics in evolutionary, generative electronic art, Proceedings of the EvoWorkshops 2005: EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC: Applications of Evolutionary Computing, 30 March 2005 to 1 April 2005, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 448-457.

Dorin, A., 2005, Beyond morphogenesis: enhancing synthetic trees through death, declay and the Weasel Test, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts (Third Iteration 2005), 30 November 2005 to 02 December 2005, Centre for Electronic Media Art (CEMA), Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 119-128.

McCormack, J.P., Dorin, A., Innocent, T.C., 2005, Generative design: a paradigm for design research, Futureground, 17November 2004 to 21 November 2004, Monash University, Faculty of Art & Design, Caulfield East Vic Australia, p. 0.

Dorin, A., 2004, The virtual ecosystem as generative electronic art, Proceedings of the EvoWorkshops 2004: EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC: Applications of Evolutionary Computing, 5 April 2004 to 7 April 2004, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 467-476.

Dorin, A., McCormack, J.P., 2003, Self-assembling dynamical hierarchies, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE VIII), 09 December 2002 to 13 December 2002, The MIT Press, London England, pp. 423-428.

Dorin, A., 2002, Liquiprism: generating polyrhythms with cellular automata, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Auditory Display, 02 July 2002 to 05 July 2002, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, Kyoto Japan, pp. 447-451.

Dorin, A., 2002, The visual aspect of artificial life, Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, 16 January 2002 to 18 January 2002, Shubundo Insatsu Co Ltd, Hagiwara Oita Japan, pp. 451-454.

McCormack, J., Dorin, A., 2002, Ways of seeing: visualization of artificial life environments, Workshop Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 09 December 2002 to 13 December 2002, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 155-162.

McCormack, J., Dorin, A., 2001, Art, emergence, and the computational sublime, Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, 05 May2001 to 07 May 2001, Centre for Electronic Media Art, Vic Australia, pp. 67-81.

Dorin, A., 2000, Boolean Networks for the Generation of Rhythmic Structure, Interfaces - Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Association Conference 2000, Brisbane QLD Australia, 5-8 July 2000, Queensland University of Technology, Qld Australia, pp. 38-45.

Dorin, A., 2000, Creating a Physically-Based, Virtual-Metabolism with Solid Cellular Automata, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (ARTIFICIAL LIFE VII), Oregon USA, 1-6 August 2000, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts USA, pp. 13-20.

Dorin, A., 1999, Classification of Physical Processes for Virtual-Kinetic Art, First Iteration A Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, Melbourne AUSTRALIA, 1-3 December ,1999, Centre for Electronic Media Arts,Monash Uni, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 68-79.

Dorin, A., 1999, Physicality and Notation, Fundamental Aspects of Generative Processes in the Electronic Arts, Proceedings of First Iteration - A Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, Melbourne AUSTRALIA, 1-3 December, 1999, Centre for Electronic Media Arts, Monash Uni, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 80-91.

Other

Dorin, A., 2009, BIOTOPE, Frankston Arts Centre, Glass Studio Cube 37, Frankston Vic Australia, 13 July 2010 to 10 August 2010.

Dorin, A., 2009, CONSTELLATION, Guildford Lane Gallery, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne Vic Australia, 3 December 2009 to 20 December 2009.

McCormack, J.P., McIlwain, P.A., Lane, A.A., Dorin, A., 2007, Nodal 1.0R, Centre for Electroni Media Arts, Australia.

Dorin, A., 2006, Plague, Contemporary Art Pavilion, Satellite Show, Shanghai, 3 September 2006 to 23 September 2006.

Dorin, A., McCormack, J.P., Montgomery, A.Y., Rigby, M., 2005, The Deep, Melbourne Museum, 2005.

Dorin, A., 2003, Artist Space 6: Generative computation and the arts, Journal Article & Images, Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, Oxfordshire UK, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 163-165.

Dorin, A., 2003, Meniscus, Arts Centre, ACMI Cinemas, Centre for Contempory Photography,M, Bambra Press, Vic Australia, Sept & Oct., 2003.

Dorin, A., 2000, FIRST ITERATION: A Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, Chroma - Newsletter of the Australasian Computer Music Association, Inc, Australasian Computer Music Association Inc, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia.

Dorin, A., 2000, The Procrastinating Suttee, Australian Center for Contemporary Arts, December 2000.

Dorin, A., 1999, The Philosophy and Implementation of Physically-Based, Visual Models of Artificial Life.

Dorin, A., 1997, Ambient#5 - Music for causal encounters, 2 November 1997, Asia-Pacific Multimedia Festival, Melbourne Vic Australia, Melbourne Exhibition Centre.

Dorin, A., 1997, Mechanical hermaphrodite - hypercube and projection, 13 February - 9 March 1997, C Adams (curator), Melbourne Vic Australia, Linden Gallery.

Teaching Commitment

Dr Alan Dorin is the Chief Examiner for the following unit/s in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT3094 - AI for gaming

Alan teaches the following units;

• FIT3094 - AI for gaming
• FIT4012 - Advanced topics in computational science

and Alan is the Clayton School Coordinator for;

• FIT4000 - Honours thesis extension
• FIT4126 - Honours thesis
• FIT4441 - Honours thesis part 1
• FIT4442 - Honours thesis part 2
• FIT4443 - Honours thesis part 3
• FIT4444 - Honours thesis final
• FIT4008 - Honours thesis
• FIT4126 - Honours thesis
• FIT4186 - Honours thesis
• FIT4448 - Honours thesis final
• FIT4606 - Honours thesis

 

 

 

 

 

Activities

Education

Coordinator
Business Information Systems (Honours)
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Coordinator
Computer Science (Honours)
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Coordinator
Software Engineering (Honours)
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Grants

Title:

A Process-Based Approach to Generative Form Synthesis.

Investigators:

McCormack, J, Dorin, A, Whitelaw, M, Latham, W

Funding:

(2010 - 2014). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2010 - 2014). Monash University.

(2010 - 2014). University of Canberra.

Title:

Design after Nature: Generative Models for Digital Media.

Investigators:

McCormack, J, Dorin, A, Innocent, T

Funding:

(2006 - 2010). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2007 - 2011). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2009 - 2013). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Pollination in a new climate: Evolutionary simulation of bee and flower interactions for predicting impacts of climate change on pollination.

Investigators:

Dorin, A, Dyer, A, Chittka, L

Funding:

(2013 - 2017). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Morphogenetic Urban Design.

Supervisors:

Dorin, A (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Simulating bee foraging: how behavioural diversity in bees interacts with environmental conditions.

Supervisors:

Dorin, A (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Guglielmetti, M.

Program of Study:

After life. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Dziekan, V (Main), Mccormack, J (Associate), Dorin, A (Associate).

Student:

Harrison, P.

Program of Study:

Image texture tools: texture synthesis, texture transfer and plausible restoration. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Dorin, A (Main), Mccormack, J (Associate).

Student:

Paperin, G.

Program of Study:

Mechanisms for emergence and self-organisation in complex adaptive systems: a network-theoretical perspective. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Green, D (Main), Dorin, A (Associate), Sadedin, S (Associate).

Student:

Porter, B.

Program of Study:

A developmental system for organic form synthesis. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Mccormack, J (Main), Dorin, A (Associate).