Album Four: Conference Sessions, August 31-September 1, 1997

Two days of intense conference sessions were held in the Rice TV studio at the Banff Centre. More details on these sessions will be forthcoming on the program pages.

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Scenes from the Conference Sessions

Rajarshi Das beginning his presentation

Chris Winter from BT Labs	Chris Winter
Paul Marrow, BT Labs How Biology Evolves Large Systems Looking for Inspiration	Steve Grand demonstrating Creatures
Christian Jacob and Modeling Ecosystems	Christian Jacob with a forest model
Joel Hagen and speculative skulls	Joel Hagen with a skeleton design

Organic and Evolutionary Art
and other Visuals Shown During the Conference

Darrel Anderson facing some outputs of Grobot

Views of Steven Rooke's evolutionary artwork

Karl Sims' Genetic Cross Dissolves

Karl Sims' Evolving Creatures

Virtual World in Cyberspace (Bruce Damer) Built out of 200 Million Polygons by some of 250,000 residents

View of generative Nerve Garden environment (Bruce Damer)

Chris Winter's BT Labs Flocking Fishes

Open Mike Discussions

Attendees in the Rice TV Studio, Banff Centre

Open discussion on Paleontology and Digital tools (Riedel): Plotnick, Gordon, Bengtson, Runnegar

Open discussion on digital evolution: Ray, Sims, Yeager, Terzopoulos

Conference Support Staff

Todd Goldenbaum, conference webmaster

Conference documentary crew at work

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