Art of Cellular Automata Exhibition (Spring 2023, Bristol)

Art of Cellular Automata Exhibition

Spring 2023, Bristol, UK

Scientific chairs: Andy Adamatzky (UK) and Genaro J. Martínez (Mexico)

Art Curator: Irina Petrova Adamatzky (UK)

Call for entries. Deadline: 30 May 2023

You are welcome to submit inspiring and artistic patterns generated by cellular automata.

Submit your work here

Prizes: Three winners will get prizes in Amazon vouchers: 1st Place – £150, 2nd Place – £100, 3rd Place £50.

Selected entries will be presented to the public at the `Art of Cellular Automata’ exhibition. The exhibition will be hosted by the Unconventional Computing Lab (UWE Bristol UK) and will be in virtual (Artplacer) and physical (The Island, Bristol, UK) forms.

A special issue of Journal of Cellular Automata with selected entries will be produced.

What are cellular automata?

Cellular automata are regular uniform networks of locally-connected finite-state machines.They are discrete systems with non-trivial behaviour. Cellular automata are ubiquitous. They are mathematical abstractions of computation, models of physical, chemical and living systems, and architectures of massive-parallel processors. Cellular automata generate patterns. These patterns feed our visual thinking. They help us to discover novel properties of spatially extended systems. They aid us in the design of parallel algorithms. Also the patterns excite us. They fuel our imagination and guide us on trips into the depths of the unknown, in the galaxies of the Computing Universe. Most famous cellular automaton is Conway’s Game of Life.

The 2023 exhibition is inspired by the “Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata” book compiled by Andrew Adamatzky and Genaro J. Martínez in 2016 and published by Springer.

Artistic expressions can be shown as: pictures (evolutions), videos, tessellations, plastic forms, music, augmented reality.

Further Readings

Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modelling (MIT Press series in scientific computation) by Toffoli | 1 Jan 1987
Cellular Automata: A Volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition (Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science Series) by Andrew Adamatzky | 28 Nov 2018
Game of Life Cellular Automata by Andrew Adamatzky | 5 Jul 2010
Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata: 20 (Emergence, Complexity and Computation, 20) by Andrew Adamatzky and Genaro J. Martínez | 5 Feb 2016
Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers by Stephen Wolfram | 21 Jun 2019
Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe by Andrew Ilachinski | 4 Jul 2001
Cellular Automaton Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation: Characterization, Applications, and Analysis (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology) by Andreas Deutsch , Sabine Dormann, et al. | 28 Oct 2004
Simulation with Cellular Automata by Jrg Weimar | 15 Mar 2003
New Constructions in Cellular Automata (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity) by David Griffeath and Cristopher Moore | 19 Mar 2003