<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">The Neukom Institute at Dartmouth College is sponsoring a competition<br>designed to encourage the composition of software that generates<br>creative works (e.g., short stories, sonnets, and music):<br><br>----<br><br>The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College is<br>pleased to announce the first annual Neukom Institute Prizes in<br>Computational Arts. These competitions aim to inspire innovations in<br>computational methods that generate artistic products, such as<br>literary, musical, and visual art.<br><br><a href="https://math.dartmouth.edu/~turingtests/">https://math.dartmouth.edu/~turingtests/</a><br><br>- The "DigiLit" prize competition encourages the creation of algorithms<br> able to produce a "human-level" short story of the kind that might be<br> intended for a short story collection produced in a well-regarded MfA<br> program or a piece for The New Yorker. The prize seeks to reward<br> algorithms that could, for example, write stories for a creative<br> writing class in which students are asked to submit a new short story<br> each day.<br><br>- PoetiX is a completion in computer-generated sonnet writing. While,<br> there are many forms of sonnet, for the purposes of the prize we are<br> considering only “traditional” sonnets: fourteen line poems, in iambic<br> pentameter, in either “Shakesperean” or “Petrarchan” form. The former<br> is further characterized by an “abab cdcd efef gg” rhyme scheme, and<br> the latter as an octet of rhyme scheme “abba abba” followed by a<br> sestet with no fixed form. <br><br>- "AlgoRhythms" "AlgoRhythms" is a dance music Turing test for live<br> DJ-ing, co-sponsored with Dartmouth College's Program in Digital<br> Musics. We will find out whether we can tell the difference between<br> humans and machines when it comes to selecting the music we want to<br> hear and move to.<br><br>Submission deadline TBA (likely late 2015).<br><br><br><br><div>
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