Conference Details
The first Creativity and Cognition Symposium was held at Loughborough 1993. It was a highly successful and internationally acclaimed event. Creativity and Cognition 2 in 1996, continued the initial aim of creating opportunities for artists, composers and scientists to engage in a dialogue about their ideas, and working practices. The third conference will be an ACM SIGCHI event. Its main focus will be on artists, composers, technologists and scientists working in collaborative partnerships.The aim is to explore how the different viewpoints and languages of art, music and science have influenced or informed one another. The conference will be a three day program of presentations, demonstrations and poster displays.
Marvin Minsky, leading scientist, early pioneer of Artificial Intelligence and author of 'The Society of Mind'
Harold Cohen, leading artist, early developer of computer based art and creator of 'Aaron' a computer program that generates drawings and paintings
Ben Shneiderman, author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (1987, third edition 1998, booksite), Addison-Wesley Publishers
Stelarc, an Australian-based performance artist whose work explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology through human/machine interfaces incorporating the Internet and Web, sound, music, video and computers.
Theories and studies of creativity and cognition
Computers as creativity machines
Computers as catalysts for human creativity
Initiatives in fostering creativity in the community
Intersections and correspondences between art, music, science and technology
Interactions between artists, musicians and scientists
Impact of new technology on thinking and action in art, music and science
Scenarios for the future in the creative arts
General chair Ernest Edmonds Loughborough University
Program Chair Linda Candy Loughborough University
Treasurer Doug Riecken IBM Watson Research and Rutgers University
Registration Chair Peter Thomas University of the West of England
Tutorials Chair Tom Hewett Drexel University
Publicity Chair Frank Shipman Texas A&M University
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Ernest Edmonds : General Chair
Linda Candy : Program Chair
Tom Hewett: Tutorials Chair
Doug Riecken : Treasurer
Frank Shipman : Publicity Chair
Peter Thomas : Registration Chair
Omer Akin
James L. Alty
Roy Ascott
Nigel Birch
Paul Brown
Richard Coyne
Mike North
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Nigel Cross
Gerhard Fischer
John S. Gero
Koichi Hori
Bob Hughes
Peter Johnson
Akihiro Kubota
Bryan R. Lawson
Roger Malina
Kenji Mase
Frieder Nake
Norbert A. Streitz
Geraint A Wiggins
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October 10-13, 1999
Loughborough UK
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