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For ALICE 2027 we're excited to have as speaker and project leader: Christian Guckelsberger (@creativeendvs.bsky.social) is a computer scientist, art historian, and Assistant Professor in Creative Technologies at @aalto.fi where he leads the Autotelic Interaction Research (ARI) group.

ALICE 2027 we're excited to have as speaker and project leader: Arend Hintze is Professor at Dalarna University, Sweden. Arend's work explores what environments and evolutionary pressures give rise to intelligence, and how cognitive mechanisms evolved.

Last few days to register for ALICE. Join us in Norway! 🏔️

We are excited to announce the first speaker and project leader of this year's ALICE workshop: Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social is Assistant Professor at Michigan State University where she leads the ECODE Lab (Evolutionary Control of Digital Ecologies). Workshop details: aliceworkshop.org

We are excited to announce the second edition of the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (ALICE) workshop. ALICE is coming back, this time to Geilo, Norway in the first week of February 2027 🏔️ Details and registration: aliceworkshop.org

Complexity and interpretability rarely coincide: complex systems are usually too opaque to question, while transparent ones are too simple interesting dynamics to emerge. What if we treated LLM agents as the basic computational unit to build agentic substrates? Paper thread 🧵

Our paper with @eplantec.bsky.social was accepted at @alifeconf.bsky.social How does criticality move from agents to populations? We study how near-critical dynamics inside individual agents shape collective dynamics at the population scale. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01818

Call for papers for 'Artificial Life for Science and Engineering' at ALife 26. We seek work applying ALife concepts and tools to model real-world systems and engineer solutions — and assist scientific discovery through open-ended and curiosity-driven search. Call info: alifeforscience.github.io

Would you kick a (robot) dog? @bdacre.bsky.social on the dark design patterns used AI systems and robots

Congratulations to our own Dr. Bessone @nbes.bsky.social for his successful PhD defence @itu.dk ✨🧑🏻‍🎓

We are thrilled to be returning to GECCO for a second edition of the Evolving Self-Organisation Workshop. We are now accepting paper submissions, so come join us! Check out our website for more info and upcoming announcements evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io/gecco-2026/

Jobs! The Autotelic Interaction Research Group is looking for (1) creative practitioners and (2) theory researchers to work on "Autotelic Creative Artificial Intelligence" (ACAI): (1) PhD in Creative Practices (2+2 years): lnkd.in/dPBG47rM (2) Postdoctoral Researcher (2 years): lnkd.in/dMisM_bf

WE ARE BACK! 🚀🚀🚀 📢 #databeers #copenhagen x Absalon is back on March 10th, SAVE THE DATE! Many thanks to our sponsors, the Danish Data Science Academy and the Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Speaker announcement and tickets out soon, stay tuned!

What a week—projects, tutorials, discussion groups, art demo & even a complexity-alife quiz! Thank you to all the attendees who brought a fantastic energy to this year's ALICE workshop. We can't wait to see you again next year, this time in Norway 🇳🇴 Thank you to @aicentre.dk and @itu.dk !

Quiz time ✨ 👾

Projects time 👨‍💻👩‍💻🧑‍💻

Day two: tutorials, more discussion groups with @angelgm.bsky.social, @kyrre2000.bsky.social and Alexander Mordvintsev

The panel discussion with all the guests speakers and moderated by Milton Montero & @elisecutts.bsky.social

Discussion groups with @stenichele.bsky.social, @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social, Susan Stepney & @ericmedvetts.bsky.social

Less than a week for ALICE—we are looking forward welcome you all in Copenhagen! ⛄ You can find the updated program here: aliceworkshop.org/program/

Kan naturens egen designproces videreudvikle AI? En ny lærebog skrevet af ITU-professor @risi.bsky.social m.fl. udforsker feltet 𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, der kan ændre fremtidens kunstige intelligens. "Grundideen er at efterligne, hvordan intelligens opstod i naturen." Læs mere 👉 itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press...

Excited to announce our book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can drive creativity in deep learning, RL, LLMs and AI Agents!

This year's ALICE guest speakers 🧑‍🔬 - Angel Goñi-Moreno - @angelgm.bsky.social - Alyssa Adams - @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social - Alexander Mordvintsev - Eric Medvet - @ericmedvetts.bsky.social - Kyrre Glette - @kyrre2000.bsky.social - Stefano Nichele - @stenichele.bsky.social - Susan Stepney

Our (in the making) paper combining morphogenetic fields and neural cellular cellular automata with @miltonllera.bsky.social, Eleni Nisioti & @risi.bsky.social got a little award at @alife2025.bsky.social #ALife2025 💮✨

The SONI session turned out a great—shout out to the speakers & the panelists @emilydolson.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens. #ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social

We had the chance to visit the new Artificial Life Institute in Kyoto. Beautiful & inspiring space ✨

Hello @alife2025.bsky.social 👋⛩️

We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February. We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned! Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org

Eleni Nisioti presenting work on evolving self-reconfiguring circuits ⚡

We're excited to announce final program of the @alife2025.bsky.social SONI session which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al... See you in Kyoto ⛩️

Be part of the next generation of virtual creatures: Enter the 2025 Virtual Creatures Competition (VCC)! Held at #ALIFE2025, the #VCC is an annual competition to showcase recent research in the field of artificial life. Judges and prizes to be announced soon. ⬇️ ⬇️

Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾 An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA ! If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper ! A 🧵

Decentralised robotics 🤖🕸️🤖 @bdacre.bsky.social presenting his research on tile-based manipulation system

Manta-Ray surface robot manipulator presented by @pratiki.bsky.social

The @alife2025.bsky.social deadline has been extended one week—new deadline May 11th 2025 23:59 AoE Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏

I have two upcoming talks in Denmark on digital aesthetics and algorithmic images. The first is at Aarhus University on Wednesday 23 April 2025, at 14:15 - 16:00. More info: cc.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Beautiful day at the @aicentre.dk ☀️

Predictive coding and active inference in a multi-agent environment. @nbes.bsky.social presenting his upcoming work 🚀

Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠 An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence. Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th

REAL seminar with Nick Cheney "rambling" on learning, development and evolution 🧬

Today we had @chrisadami.bsky.social presenting at @itu.dk on the relation between information theory and intelligence—and how Shannon actually didn't really understand information theory 🤯

📢 Call for PhD and Postdocs: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness nerds.itu.dk/2025/03/25/c... We are looking for Phds and Postdocs to join @jonassjuul.bsky.social at @itu.dk in Copenhagen improving inference, forecasting, and mitigation in future pandemics. Deadline May 1st.

🔔 🔔 🔔 This is your 🌟 final call 🌟 to get your special session proposals in for this year's conference. Deadline in ~24hrs. If you're interested in curating work around an ALife(-adjacent) theme, area of research/application, then organising a special session is the way to go. #ALIFE #ALIFE2025

We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at GECCO 2025! Submission deadline: March 26, 2025 More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io

Join us for the Evolving Self-Organisation workshop at #GECCO this year! Great chance to submit your favourite ideas concerning self-organisation processes and evolution, and how they interact. Relevant for Alifers #ALife and anyone interested in #evolution, #self-organisation, and #ComplexSystems.

In-vitro cellular automata with ethyl salicylate droplets 💧

REAL talk on mechanistic interpretability of transformers by @syrkis.com

Weekly lab escapade to the Pioneer Center for AI. What a beautiful and inspiring place to do research ✨

GROW-AI writing retreat ✍️ Trying to figure out our perspective on evolutionary developmental artificial intelligence 🧬