Research Projects

Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage, 1 of 5 'Discovery Projects' part of the 5-year Towards A National Collection (TaNC) programme. Funded by UKRI's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). In partnership with Tate and Decolonising Arts Institute (AH/W003341/1).

Charismatic Project: "AI-driven Storytelling for TV and Film Industries" led by Charismatic.ai, Channel 4, UAL Creative Computing Institute, Falmouth University, Aardman Animations, Sound Reactions and digital ethicist Lisa Talia Moretti, supported by InnovateUK (UKRI).

Xperimus Project: “Experimentation in music in Portuguese culture: History, contexts and practices in the 20th and 21st centuries” (POCI-01-0145-FEDER031380) co-funded by the European Union through the Operational Program Competitiveness and Internationalisation, in its ERDF component, and by national funds, through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

List of selected publications

Arandas, L., Ionescu, I., Khan, M., Grierson, M., Carvalhais, M. (2025). All YIN No YANG: Geometric Abstraction of Oil Paintings with Trained Models, Noise and Self-reference. In: Machado, P., Johnson, C., Santos, I. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. EvoMUSART 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-90167-6_17.

Arandas, Luís; Sarmento, Pedro; Grierson, Mick; Carvalhais, Miguel (2024) Editing Video Streams Through Natural Language Embeddings: Keyframe Sequencing Using Transformers. In Adriana Sá (ed) Live Interfaces journal vol. 2 (Univ. Lusófona/ CICANT). ISSN: 2975-9943.

Arandas, L., Ionescu, I., Khan, M., Grierson, M., Carvalhais, M. (2023). All YIN No YANG: Automating Language-guided Diffusion Systems in Search of Abstraction. Book of abstracts "Explorations in Sound and New Media Art Conference" (ESNMAC). Published, artes.porto.ucp.pt. 

Arandas, L., Grierson, M. & Carvalhais, M. (2023). Antagonising explanation and revealing bias directly through sequencing and multimodal inference. In the 1st International Workshop on Explainable AI for the Arts, ACM Creativity and Cognition (C&C). 

Arandas, L., McDonough, K., Grierson, M. & Carvalhais, M. (2023). Man lost in the convergence of time, Avebury (2022): Reconfiguring film through human figure removal and collage. Proceedings of Intermediartes - Media, Artes e Interação (2023, Portugal).

Arandas, L., Grierson, M. & Carvalhais, M. (2023). Computing Short Films Using Language-guided Diffusion and Vocoding Through Virtual Timelines of Summaries. INSAM, Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology, ISSN: 2637-1898.

Arandas, L. (2023). Irreplaceable Biography: Possible futures of AI filmmaking regarding a model's filter of reality. Proceedings of xCoAx – Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X, Weimar (Germany). ISBN: 978-989-9049-52-9.

Panal, G., & Arandas, L. (2022). Beat Byte Bot: a bot-based system architecture for audio cataloguing and proliferation with neural networks and Linked Data. Extended abstract on Digital Music Research Workshop, Queen Mary University of London. 

Arandas, L. H. & Penha, R. (2022). Sttera: Software for Audio Recognition and Orchestration as Medium for Music Ritual, Journal of Creative Music Systems (JCMS). 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5920/jcms.847.

Panal, G., & Arandas, L. (2021). Beat Byte Bot: A Chatbot Architecture for Web-based Audio Management. In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Ubiquitous Music (UbiMus 2021) (pp. 72-82). g-ubimus. ISBN: 978-65-00-30880-8.

Arandas, L., Gomes, J. A., & Penha, R. (2021). Akson, an Audio-Visual Environment for Networked Interaction and Performance. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (JSTA), 13(2), 142-158. https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2021.9448. 

Arandas, L., Grierson, M., & Carvalhais, M. (2020). Continuous Contributions of Artificial Agents in Performance Regarding Static Artefacts. Artificial Creativity Conference, Malmö, Sweden – Extended abstract URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36965.

Arandas, L., Carvalhais, M., Grierson, M., Bernardes, G., & Penha, R. (2020). Facing a Middle-Ground of Symbolic Importance in Artificial Co-Creative Systems. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Future of Co-Creative Systems - 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Portugal (ICCC 2020).

Arandas, L. (2020). Artificial Intelligence and the Arts: A Performative Approach to Metacreation. Proceedings of xCoAx – Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X, Graz, Austria. ISBN: 978-989-746-266-5.

Arandas, L., Gomes, J., & Penha, R. (2020) Directing Selfness – A Step Back from Digital Collaboration on Stage. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI). Trondheim, Norway. ISSN: 2663-9041.

Arandas, L., Gomes, J., & Penha, R. (2019) Towards Large-Scale Artistic Practice with Web Technologies. Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference (WAC). Trondheim, Norway. ISSN: 2663-5844.

Arandas, L., Gomes, J., & Penha, R. (2019) Wireplex, An Extended Flow of Data as Distributed Sound Sculpture. Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference (WAC). Trondheim, Norway. ISSN: 2663-5844.

Arandas, L., Gomes, J., & Penha, R., Bernardes, G. (2019) Never The Less: A Performance on Networked Art. Proceedings of xCoAx – Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X, Milan, Italy. ISBN: 978-989-746-220-7.