<div dir="ltr"><span id="inbox-inbox-docs-internal-guid-1c07cc67-33e8-ab72-7b3f-d8997a2b849e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">======================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">======================</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">((( MUME 2018 )))</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 6th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><a href="http://musicalmetacreation.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://musicalmetacreation.org</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">June 25-26, 2018, Salamanca, Spain.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MUME 2018 is to be held at the University of Salamanca in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2018.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=== Important Dates ===</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop submission deadline: March 2nd, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification date: April 30th, 2018 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready version: May 25th, 2018 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop dates: June 25-26, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">======================</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Metacreation applies tools and techniques from artificial intelligence, artificial life, and machine learning, themselves often inspired by cognitive and natural science, for creative tasks. Musical Metacreation studies the design and use of these generative tools and theories for music making: discovery and exploration of novel musical styles and content, collaboration between human performers and creative software “partners”, and design of systems in gaming and entertainment that dynamically generate or modify music.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MUME intents to bring together artists, practitioners, and researchers interested in developing systems that autonomously (or interactively) recognize, learn, represent, compose, generate, complete, accompany, or interpret music. As such, we welcome contributions to the theory or practice of generative music systems and their applications in new media, digital art, and entertainment at large. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">===========================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage paper and demo submissions on MUME-related topics, including the following:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- Models, Representation and Algorithms for MUME</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Novel representations of musical information</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Advances or applications of AI, machine learning, and statistical techniques for generative music</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Advances of A-Life, evolutionary computing or agent and multi-agent based systems for generative music</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Computational models of human musical creativity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- Systems and Applications of MUME</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Systems for autonomous or interactive music composition</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Systems for automatic generation of expressive musical interpretation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Systems for learning or modeling music style and structure</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Systems for intelligently remixing or recombining musical material</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Online musical systems (i.e. systems with a real-time element)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Adaptive and generative music in video games</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Generative systems in sound synthesis, or automatic synthesizer design </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Techniques and systems for supporting human musical creativity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Emerging musical styles and approaches to music production and performance involving the use of AI systems</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Applications of musical metacreation for digital entertainment: sound design, soundtracks, interactive art, etc.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- Evaluation of MUME</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Methodologies for qualitative or quantitative evaluation of MUME systems</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Studies reporting on the evaluation of MUME</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Socio-economical Impact of MUME</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Philosophical implication of MUME</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---- Authorship and legal implications of MUME</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Format and Requirements </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please make submissions via the EasyChair system at:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mume2018" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mume2018</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop is a day and a half event that includes:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-Presentations of FULL TECHNICAL PAPERS (8 pages maximum)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-Presentations of POSITION PAPERS and WORK-IN-PROGRESS PAPERS (5 pages maximum)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-Presentations of DEMONSTRATIONS (3 pages maximum) which present outputs of systems (working live or offline). </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All papers should be submitted as complete works. Demo systems should be tested and working by the time of submission, rather than be speculative. We encourage audio and video material to accompany and illustrate the papers (especially for demos). We ask that authors arrange for their web hosting of audio and video files, and give URL links to all such files within the text of the submitted paper.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions do not have to be anonymized, as we use single-blind reviewing. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">   </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop papers will be published as MUME 2018 Proceedings and will be archived with an ISBN number. Please use the updated MuMe paper template to format your paper. Also please feel free to edit the licence entry (at the bottom left of the first page of the new template). We created a new MUME 2018 template based on AAAI template. The MUME 2018 latex and Word template is available at:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="inbox-inbox-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="inbox-inbox-kix-line-break"></span><a href="http://musicalmetacreation.org/buddydrive/file/mume2018_templates" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://musicalmetacreation.org/buddydrive/file/mume2018_templates</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission should be uploaded using MUME 2018 EasyChair portal: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mume2018" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mume2018</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For complete details on attendance, submissions and formatting, please visit the workshop website:</span><a href="http://www.musicalmetacreation.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></a><a href="http://musicalmetacreation.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://musicalmetacreation.org</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Presentation and Multimedia Equipment:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">==========================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We will provide a video projection system as well as a stereo audio system for use by presenters at the venue. Additional equipment required for presentations and demonstrations should be supplied by the presenters. Contact the Workshop Chair to discuss any special equipment and setup needs/concerns.</span></p><br><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Attendance</span></h4><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=======================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It is expected that at least one author of each accepted submission will attend the workshop to present their contribution. We also welcome those who would like to attend the workshop without presenting. Workshop registration will be available through the ICCC 2018 conference system.</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">History</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=======================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MUME 2018 builds on the enthusiastic response and participation we received for the past occurrences of MUME series:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MUME 2012 (held in conjunction with AIIDE 2012 at Stanford): </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><a href="http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2012/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2012/</span></a></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MUME 2013 (held in conjunction with AIIDE 2013 at NorthEastern):</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><a href="http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2013/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2013/</span></a></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MUME 2014 (held in conjunction with AIIDE 2014 at North Carolina):</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><a href="http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2014/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2014/</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MUME 2016 (held in conjunction with ICCC 2016 at Université Pierre et Marie Curie):</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><a href="http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2016/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2016/ </span></a></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MUME 2017 (held in conjunction with ICCC 2017 at Georgia Institute of Technology):</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="inbox-inbox-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span></span><a href="http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2017/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2017/ </span></a></p><br><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Questions & Requests</span></h4><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">======================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please direct any inquiries/suggestions/special requests to the Workshop Chair, Philippe Pasquier (<a href="mailto:pasquier@sfu.ca">pasquier@sfu.ca</a>).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop Organizers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">===================</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pr. Philippe Pasquier (Workshop Chair)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Simon Fraser University, Canada</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://metacreation.net/">http://metacreation.net/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.kadenze.com/programs/generative-art-and-computational-creativity">https://www.kadenze.com/programs/generative-art-and-computational-creativity</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pr. Arne Eigenfeldt</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">School for the Contemporary Arts</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Simon Fraser University, Canada</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Oliver Bown</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The University of Sydney, Australia</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kıvanç Tatar (MUME Administration and Publicity Assistant) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PhD Candidate</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">School of Interactive Arts and Technology, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">----------------------</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><a href="http://musicalmetacreation.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://musicalmetacreation.org</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">======================</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MUME Steering Committee</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Andrew Brown</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  Griffith University, Australia</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anna Jordanous</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  University of Kent, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bob Keller</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  Harvey Mudd College, US</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Róisín Loughran</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  University College Dublin, Ireland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael Casey</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  Dartmouth College, US</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Benjamin Smith</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Palatino;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  Purdue University Indianapolis, US</span></p></span><br class="inbox-inbox-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Kıvanç Tatar<br>----------------------------------<br></div>PhD Candidate<br></div><div>Interactive Arts and Technology<br></div><div>Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada<br></div></div>Email: <a href="mailto:kivanctatar@gmail.com">kivanctatar@gmail.com</a><br></div>Website: <a href="https://kivanctatar.wordpress.com/">https://kivanctatar.wordpress.com/</a><br></div></div>