Michael Cook
Senior Research FellowFalmouth University
Talks
I'm still updating this list, trying to track down old talks and recordings where possible. I also try my best to record live talks and upload them wherever streaming wasn't available, but sometimes this is hard to do. Please bear with me!
Disposable Universes And Games You Can’t Quit - Strange Futures for AI in Games - [PDF]
Rezzed Sessions, 2018
Perfect, Immortal Machines - Computational Creativity and the Future of Automated Game Design - [PDF]
Queen Mary Game AI Seminar Series, 2018
Game Jamming Faster, Weirder, Better With Procedural Generation - [PDF]
Malta Global Game Jam Keynote, 2018
ANGELINA On The Big Stage - Automated Game Design As Performance
Zurich Game Lab Conference, 2017
Mediating Cultural Work: Texts, Objects and Politics [Panel Member]
CAMEo Conference, 2017
Danesh [The Tech Toolbox]
Game Developer's Conference, 2017 - [GDC Vault (free)]
The Digital Muse: AI And Creativity
New Scientist Live, 2016
We've Run Out Of Planets - Procedural Generation After No Man's Sky
EGX, 2016 - [YouTube]
Don't Be Human
Bot Summit, 2016 - [YouTube]
Smoke And Mirrors In The Age Of AI
Videobrains, 2015
How To Make Friends And Impact People
IGGI Launch Day, 2015
One More Time, With Feeling
Invited Seminar Talk, NYU, 2015
Can Computers Be Feminists?
Different Games Panel Presentation, 2015
Triple-AI: How Artificial Intelligence Will Run The Games Industry
Rezzed Session, 2015
Automated Game Design And Computational Creativity
Dagstuhl Seminar Introduction, 2015
A Brief History Of The Future Of Twitterbots
Coimbra Code Camp, 2015
The Lost Art Of Dreaming
Videobrains, 2014 - [YouTube]
If Only We Could Talk To The Generators
Copenhagen PCG Summit, 2014
ANGELINA 'The Game Designer'
babycastles, 2014
Generate Everything
Indievelopment, 2014
The Medium Is The Metaphor
Invited Seminar Series, UC Dublin, 2014
ANGELINA
Eurogamer Developer Session, 2014 - [YouTube]
Good Feelings And Great Ideas
Invited Seminar Series, Essex University, 2014
Software Writing Software
Invited Seminar Series, Canterbury University, 2013
A Tale Of Two Designers
Warwick Game Design Society, 2013
My iPod Just Had A Great Idea
City of London School Science Festival, 2013
ANGELINA - Automated Game Design
Imperial College Games and Media Event, 2012