Selected publications

- Computer Drawings
Working Information, Jean Spencer Ed. London, UK 1978

- Personal Statement.
PAGE, Computer Arts Society, Boreham Ed. London, UK 1979

- Peter Beyls in: Computergrafik Gallerie
Herbert W. Franke, Dumont Verlag, Munich, Germany 1980

- Search programs
Aspects of the computer in the visual arts, ICSAC Publications, Brussels 1981

- On complexity and interaction,
Symposium Art et ordinateur, Centre Culturel Suedois, Paris, France 1979

- A personal approach.
International Media Festival, TATA Publications, Tokyo Japan, 1981

- Reflections on computer art
International Computer Art Festival, Omegalfa Pub. Brussels, 1981

- Expanded Media:
International Computer Art Festival, Omegalfa Pub. Brussels, 1981

- TRESH
Computer Graphics Work 1979-83, An-Hyp Ed. Antwerp, 1984

- ASA Drawings
in: Belgian Assembly, Schraenen Ed. Antwerp, 1984

- Interactieve Media,
in Da Vinci Quartely, vol. 3 nr. 6 Brussels 1985

- Knowledge-based systems in the arts.
Intelligent Images Forum, IMAGINA Proceedings
Monte Carlo, 1988

- Artificial Intelligence and the visual arts
Konsthogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden 1988

- Intimate Machine Interaction, an illustrated definition
The visual computer, Springer Verlag, NY Berlin, 1990

- Recent work in AI and music with lines for the future.
Proceedings of the European conference on computer music, Rome, Italy 1988

- Introducing Oscar,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Cologne, Germany 1988

- The musical universe of cellular automata,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Columbus, Ohio 1989

- The emergence of musical structures from self-organisation,
Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Music,
Genoa Italy 1989

- Musical morphologies from self-organising systems,
Interface Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 19, Nr 2-3,
Swetts and Zeitlinger, Holland 1990

- Sub-symbolic approaches to musical composition, a behavioural model,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference,
Glasgow, United Kingdom 1990

- Complex dynamics and musical creativity
Proceedings of the SISEA Conference, SCAN Ed. Groningen, Holland 1990

- Symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches to visual intelligence, an exploratory study.
Proceedings of the IMAGINA Conference, Monte Carlo, Monaco 1991

- Discovery through interaction: a cognitive approach to computer media in the visual arts
Leonardo Journal of the arts and sciences, Vol. 24 nr. 3 Pergamon Press, UK 1991

- Behavioural models for interactive composing
EMS, Stockholm International Symposium on Computer Music, 1991

- Chaos and creativity
ISEA Conference, SCAN Publications, Groningen, Holland 1991

- Towards self-organising control structures,
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Man-Machine Interaction,
Pisa, Italy 1991

- Chaos and creativity. The dynamic Systems approach to musical composition
Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 1 nr. 1 Pergamon Press, 1991

- Self-organising control structures using multiple cellular automata,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Montreal,
Canada 1991

- Statement, Virtual Worlds, exhibition catalogue,
International Cultural Centre. Antwerp 1992

- Dynamic models for musical interaction in virtual reality
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference,
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. 1992

- Creativity and computation. Tracing attitudes and motives.
ISEA93 Symposium Proceedings, Minneapolis College of Art and Design,
Minneapolis, MO, USA, September 93,

- Chairman of the panel on Algorithms,
ISEA94 Conference, Helsinki, Finland, September 94

- Art education in the Binary Era.
AVE Symposium, V2 Organisation Rotterdam, Holland, March 1995

- Algorithms for conceptual navigation.
Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH-95 Conference, Los Angeles, CA. August 1995

- Introduction to the panel on Algorithms (chairman)
Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH-95 Conference, Los Angeles, CA. August 1995

- Artificial Creativity Panel (Nake, Sperka, Levy, Hofstadter and Beyls)
ISEA-95 Conference, Université de Quebec, Montreal, Canada, September 1995

- Interfacing Realities: Introducing Agents,
DEAF 95 Symposium, V2 Rotterdam, Holland 1995

- Aesthetic Navigation: musical complexity engineering using genetic algorithms
Proceedings of the JIM Conference, Lyon France, May 1997

- Principles of biological evolution and social computing in the arts
ISEA 97 Conference, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA Oct. 1997

- A survey of agents based real-time interactive systems
Proceedings of the ICMC97, Thessaloniki, Greece Oct. 1997
ICMA, San Francisco, CA

- Statements, ICC Artists' Database - Working Research Version, 1997
CD ROM produced by Intercommunication Centre NTT, Tokyo Japan, 1997

- Actors, a musical ecosystem
ISEA 98 Symposium, John Moores University, Liverpool 1998 (CD-ROM)

- Interactive Cellular Automata
ISEA 98 Symposium, John Moores University, Liverpool 1998 (CD-ROM)

-Synthetic Creatures in Context
ISEA 98 Symposium Proceedings, Liverpool and Manchester, 1998

- Evolutionary strategies for spontaneous man-machine interaction
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Beijing, China 1999

- Synthetic Creatures in Context
Proceedings of INTERSENS 2000, in: Bulletin d’informatique Approfondie
et Applications, Université de Provence, Marseilles, France, 2002

- Integrating explicit instruction and evolutionary algorithms
Proceedings of the IX Brazilian Computer Music Conference,
University of Campinas, Brazil 2003

- Selectionist Musical Automata
Proceedings of the Generative Arts Symposium GA2003, Milan, Italy,
Celestino Soddu, ed. 2003

- Musical complexity engineering using genetic techniques,
Proposal Preliminary Draft, St Lukas Hogeschool, Brussel, 2003

- Cellular Automata Mapping Procedures
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference,
University of Florida, Miami, USA. November 2004

- Evolving adaptive sensors in a synthetic listener
University of Barcelona, Spain. Proceedings of ICMC 2005

- A molecular collision model of musical interaction
Generative Arts International Symposium, Milano Polytechnic University,
Milano, Italia 2005

- Interaction in context, cahier nr. 4 (Dutch/English)
Published by University College Ghent, Fine Arts Dept. 2006

- Interaction and Self-organisation in a Society of Musical Agents
ECAL2007, European Conference on Artifical Life, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007