Autumn School on Computational Creativity

Organizers

Sponsored by

  • Hecse, Helsinki Doctoral Programme in Computer Science
  • FICS, Finnish Doctoral Programme in Computational Sciences

Programme

See Demos and Posters for demo and poster programme, Computational Creativity Club for arts programme. Download a pdf version of the programme.
Notice that some of the pdf files linked below are massive in size despite compression (and that their quality may be low, due to compression).

All lectures are available on video at http://videolectures.net/ascc2013_porvoo/ .

Sunday: Arrival to Porvoo. No organized programme.

  • Informal gathering throughout afternoon and evening in Walter's pub (next to Hotel Seurahovi)
     

Monday

  • 9:15: Registration and coffee
  • 9:45: Hannu Toivonen, Tony Veale: Opening
  • 10:00: Tony Veale: Introduction to Computational Creativity (double lecture) (video, slides)
  • 12:00: Lunch break*
  • 13:30: Simon Colton: Building an Automated Painter (double lecture) (video, slides)
  • 15:15: Coffee break
  • 15:45-16:45: Amilcar Cardoso: Computational Approaches to Conceptual Blending (part 1/2) video, slides, bibliography)
  • 18:00- : Bipin Indurkhya: A Hands-On Creativity Workshop over drinks and food (in Cafe Cabriole)

Tuesday

  • 9:00: Nada Lavrac: Text mining for Creative Cross-Domain Knowledge Discovery (double lecture) (video, slides)
  • 10:45: Coffee break
  • 11:15: Poster, demo, and art spotlights (posters and demos available during breaks during Tue-Thu, art in Computational Creativity Club on Wed evening)
  • 12:00: Lunch break*
  • 13:30: Geraint Wiggins: Characterising Computational Creativity (video, slides, clip 1, clip 2)
  • 14:15: Coffee break
  • 14:45-16:45: Rachel Giora: Optimal Innovation and Creative Interpretations of Literal and Non-Literal Language (double lecture) (video, slides)

Wednesday

  • 9:00: Graeme Ritchie: Evaluating Quality in Creative Systems (double lecture) (video, slides; bibliography)
  • 10:45: Coffee break
  • 11:15: Amilcar Cardoso: Computational Approaches to Conceptual Blending (part 2/2) (slides; bibliography)
  • 12:00: Lunch break*
  • 13:30: Geraint Wiggins: Modeling Musical Creativity  (double lecture) (video, slides, clip 1, clip 2; clip 3, clip 4, clip 5)
  • 15:15: Coffee break
  • 15:45-16:45: Rob Saunders: Artificial Creative Systems: Multi-agent Simulations of Social Creativity (part 1/2) (video, slides)
     

Computational Creativity Club (programme; in Porvoon Paahtimo):

  • 17:30: Doors open, drinks and food
  • 19:00: Showtime with exhibitions, performances, and installations by school participants, jam session with a house band
     

Thursday

  • 9:00: Tony Veale: Creativity as a Web Service (double lecture) (video, slides)
  • 10:45: Coffee break
  • 11:15: Geraint Wiggins: Creativity before Consciousness  (video, slides, clip)
  • 12:00: Lunch break*
  • 13:30: Rob Saunders: Artificial Creative Systems: Multi-agent Simulations of Social Creativity (part 2/2) (video, slides)
     
  • 14:15: Coffee break
  • 14:45: Rachel Giora: On the Creativity of Negation: The Case of Negative Sarcasm (double lecture) (video, slides)
  • 16:45: Bus transfer to Taidetehdas
  • 17:00- : Reception by the City of Porvoo (in Taidetehdas)
     

Friday

  • 9:00: Pablo Gervas: Computational Creativity in Literary Artifacts: Narrative and Poetry (double lecture) (video, slides)
  • 10:45: Coffee break
  • 11:15: Simon Colton: Philosophical Issues (video, slides)
  • 12:00: Lunch break*
  • 13:30: Simon Colton: Guiding Principles of Building Creative Systems (video, slides)
  • 14:30-15:00: Closing remarks
     

* Lunches are catered to registered participants, against vouchers, in Restaurants Seireeni and Amarillo. See Locations in Porvoo. Special dietary needs are catered in Seireeni, no guarantee about Amarillo.
 

27.01.2014 - 18:11 Hannu Toivonen
27.09.2013 - 15:16 Hannu Toivonen