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ICCC’24 Call for Papers
The 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’24) is welcoming full paper submissions on different aspects of CC, on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on systems that act as creative partners for human creators, on frameworks that offer greater clarity or computational felicity for thinking about machine (and human) creativity, on methodologies for building or evaluating CC systems, on approaches to teaching CC in schools and universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a technology, and so on.
Important dates:
- Abstracts due: February 21, 2024
- Submissions due: February 28, 2024
- Acceptance notification: April 21, 2024
- Camera-ready copies due: May 12, 2024
- Conference: June 17-21, 2024
More information: https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc24/full-papers/
ICCC’23 Proceedings
Call for venues to organize ICCC
The Association for Computational Creativity (ACC) invites all its members and any colleagues interested in the area to submit a proposal for organising the International Conference on Computational Creativity in 2024 (ICCC’24) and 2025 (ICCC’25).
For ICCC’24, the Association will favour proposals to host the conference within Europe; however, if no submission satisfies the ACC’s requirements, or we receive a truly exceptional submission, bids outside Europe will also be considered.
For ICCC’25, the Association will favour proposals to host the conference outside Europe.
The hosting bid guidelines can be found here:
http://computationalcreativity.net/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HostingBidOrganizingICCCGuidelines.pdf
To express interest in submission, or for feedback or any other queries, please directly contact the secretary of the ACC, Dan Ventura, its chair, Tony Veale, or through the e-mail info@computationalcreativity.net
ICCC’22 Proceedings
ICCC’21 Proceedings
Call for venues to organize ICCC’23
The Association for Computational Creativity (ACC) invites all its members and any colleagues interested in the area to send a proposal for organising the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’23). For this call, the Association will favour those proposals to host the conference outside Europe; however, if none of them satisfies the ACC’s requirements, bids inside Europe will also be considered. The deadline for submitting proposals is the 15th of December, 2021.
The hosting bid guidelines can be found here:
http://computationalcreativity.net/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HostingBidOrganizingICCCGuidelines.pdf.
To express interest or for any questions, please contact the secretary of the ACC, Dan Ventura, or its chair, Tony Veale.
Convocation to ACC General Assembly 2021
The convocation, in line with our constitution as defined in Portuguese law, is formally from 14:00 CET, Friday 1st October.
The assembly will begin its business at 15:00 CET. Location: on-line, members should request access details from chair.
Agenda
- General information
- Reports of Activities 20-21 and Plans for 21-22, deliberations
- Chair of SC
- ICCC ’21
- ICCC ‘22
- JCC
- Uniformity of reviewing process in ICCC – proposal and discussion
(Paper to be circulated prior to event, time permitting.) - Any other business
- Close of meeting
ACC statement: Remembering Bob Keller
The Association of Computational Creativity are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Robert M. Keller, who passed away on September 13th 2020.
Bob gave so much to the computational creativity community, as a good friend and mentor to many and a strong supporter of our conference series (ICCC). Bob was a regular participant in our conferences ever since they started back in 2010, as well as in workshops prior to the conference series. He always had something to contribute with papers, demos, posters and conversations, and was always available to review.
He was also a great person. It was always wonderful to hear what he’d been up to and to have the pleasure of his intelligent and entertaining company. We loved to see him with his wife Noel, who joined us for many social events.
Bob worked on the Impro-Visor system for many years, and this work was of huge significance in computational creativity research.
https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/
Bob’s Impro-Visor system is one of the main contributions in computational jazz improvisation. Here is a fascinating video of when Bob and Impro-Visor met up with Al Biles and Biles’s GenJam system for a jam:
Of course, because he wanted to help rather than compete, Impro-Visor teaches students, as well as having options to solo, accompany, trade fours, etc. Rather like Bob himself, in fact.
We will remember Bob at our next ICCC conference (Mexico, 2021), recognising his contributions and celebrating his memory.
The world will be a poorer place without Bob Keller. He was a kind, genuine, delightful person and he will certainly be missed.
RIP Bob
If you wish to record your own personal tribute to Bob, there is an “In Memorium” page set up by Harvey Mudd College [1], with tributes pouring in from past colleagues, students and friends. This memorial page also notes that:
“The family requests that contributions in Bob’s honor be made to the Jazz Education Network’s Scholarship Program, the American Brain Tumor Association, and the Sierra Club Foundation.”
[1] In Memoriam: Harvey Mudd Remembers Bob Keller
Harvey Mudd College
https://www.hmc.edu/in-memoriam/bob-keller/
[2] In memoriam: Robert Keller, Harvey Mudd Computer Science Professor
The Student Life (the newspaper of the Claremont colleges)
https://tsl.news/in-memoriam-robert-keller/
[3] Bob Keller RIP
John Elliott, jazz musician and friend of Bob’s
https://jaelliott24.wordpress.com/2020/09/18/bob-keller-rip/
We remember Bob’s contributions to computational creativity research events:
- Rachel Goldstein, Andy Vainauskas, Margareta Ackerman, and Robert M. Keller. Mindmusic: brain-controlled musical improvisation In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’19), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 2019.
- Nicholas Trieu and Robert Keller. JazzGAN: Improvising with generative adversarial networks. In Proceedings of MUME 2018 – The Sixth International Workshop on Musical Metacreation [received BEST PAPER AWARD]. 2018.
- Joseph Yaconelli, and Robert M. Keller. Discovery and Utilization of Jazz Motifs for Computer-Generated Solos. In Proceedings of Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity. 2018.
- Daniel D. Johnson, Robert M. Keller, and Nicholas Weintraut. Learning to Create Jazz Melodies Using a Product of Experts In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’17), Atlanta, GA, 2017.
- Zachary Kondak, Mikayla Konst, Carli Lessard, David Siah, Robert M. Keller. Active Trading with Impro-Visor. In Proceedings of MUME 2016 – The Fourth International Workshop on Musical Metacreation. 2016.
- Robert Keller. Continuous improvisation and trading with Impro-Visor In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’12), Dublin, Ireland, 2012.
- Robert Keller, August Toman-Yih, Alexandra Schofield, and Zack Merritt. A creative improvisational companion based on idiomatic harmonic bricks In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’12), Dublin, Ireland, 2012.
- Greg Bickerman, Sam Bosley, Peter Swire, and Robert M. Keller. Learning to create jazz melodies using deep belief nets In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’10), Lisbon, Portugal, 2010.
- Robert M. Keller. Automated jazz improvisation In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’10), Lisbon, Portugal, 2010.
- Robert M. Keller, David Morrison, Stephen Jones, Belinda Thom, and Aaron Wolin. A computational framework enhancing jazz creativity In Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, ECAI 2006, Trento, Italy, 2006.
Report From The Computational Creativity Task Force
The Computational Creativity Task Force was established to support the collective advancement of the computational creativity research community.
Its first report, published in the ICCC’20 Proceedings, presents an exploration of who we are as a community: the authors and program committee members of the International Conference on Computational Creativity.
Read the full report here.
ICCC’20 Proceedings
The ICCC’20 Proceedings are already available! They follow a category-based structure, equal to the sessions in ICCC’20 program: Co-Creativity and Support, Language and Narrative, Visual Creativity, Performance, Music and Poetry, Philosophy and Evaluation and Design and CC.
You can download the Proceedings here.
More info on ICCC’20: here