During the Siggraph Asia committee dinner last night, celebrating the successful conclusion of this year's event, I met a lot of people who asked about the #demoscene and for some reason; about making music on old systems. There are plenty of good videos on this, but here are a few I can recommend:

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

Check out our poster in the poster session at #ALIFE2025, starting soon! Ege de Bruin presents results on inheritance in an evolutionary robotics context. Can learned behaviour be inherited when using bayesian optimization as a lifetime learning method? @kaiolae.bsky.social #alife

🤩 #tr1000 #roland

Check out our new mini review on making robotic dance expressive & responsive! 🕺🕺🕺🤖🤖🤖 Expressiveness: conveying thoughts & feelings through varied, flexible movements. Responsiveness: reacting to stimuli in real-time. With @benediwa.bsky.social and Alex Szorkovszky @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social

Our new neuroscience paper - hot off the press! Check it out! 🧠🧠🧠💻💻💻

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

🔬 Excited to share our new paper: "Sensor Movement Drives Emergent Attention and Scalability in Active Neural Cellular Automata" We found that when neural systems can move their sensors (like animals do!), they develop attention-like behaviors without being explicitly programmed to do so. Post 1/6

If you're ever curious what's going on at RITMO, you can have a look at our events page:

The "Distributed" special session is coming again! The Distributed Ciphers: Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and Their Applications to Intelligence www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Distri...

Ege de Bruin explores generational updating and learning mechanisms to improve performance of evolved robots #IEEEALIFECIS2025 #IEEESSCI2025

Engaged audience at our #IEEESSCI2025 tutorial on Co - optimization of Robot bodies and brains - together with Frank Veenstra, Ege de Bruin and Kai Olav Ellefsen. Framework at github.com/FrankVeenstr...

My #IEEESSCI2025 experience starts with the brain-body co-optimization tutorial

For those interdisciplinary students/scholars who are having identity crisis, this is for you (from 2018): "How to survive as an interdisciplinary being" www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ho... #NetSciX2025

Save the date! The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2025 will take place in the heart of Kyoto, Japan, from 6-10 October 2025. The conference logo, official website launch, and more details coming soon!

Polar stratospheric clouds seen from the UiO campus this morning.