Workshops

The following workshops will be hosted at ICCC:

Computational Creativity and Deep Generative Design: Bridging the gap

MuMe 2019: the 7th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation

AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft

Computational Creativity and Deep Generative Design: Bridging the gap

Over the last few years, various models that use deep learning for generation and creation have become increasingly popular, e.g., GANs, VAEs. These deep generative design models create new media across images, text and music. Computational creativity has explored and continues to explore how surprise, curiosity, novelty can be formalised for use by creative software in the sciences, the arts, literature, gaming and elsewhere. This full-day workshop explores issues in the application of computational creativity to these deep generative models. By bringing together researchers from both fields the workshop will explore the potential to improve deep generative design, e.g., by incorporating computational creativity metrics. Improvements in this context covers everything from increased diversity in the generated artefacts, making these models more autonomous, generating more targeted artefacts and so on.

Attendees will submit extended abstract that will cover radical ideas on how deep generative design can use concepts and ideas from computational creativity, e.g., various metrics of creativity. These abstracts will cover works-in-progress or new directions for deep generative design. One aspect of this workshop will be that attendees will be able to access all accepted abstracts before attending the workshop to aid in an open atmosphere of discussion.

The workshop will take place over a full day. Abstracts selected for the workshop will be presented in a very short 10 minute format. This will be followed by lengthy ideation sessions. Initially, a summary of the trends and ideas across the abstracts will be presented by a panel. Then a number of breakout sessions will occur followed by a session where findings over the day will be collated.

Workshop Dates

  • Workshop submission deadline: May 5th, 2019
  • Acceptance Notification: May 13th, 2019
  • Workshop dates: June 17-18, 2019

Organizers

  • Jer Hayes, Accenture.
  • Mary Lou Maher, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
  • Rob Saunders, University of Sydney.
  • Kazjon Grace, University of Sydney.
  • Antionios Liapis, University of Malta.
  • Daniele Gravina, University of Malta.
  • Ahmed Elgamma, Rutgers University.

More Information

General Workshop Page - https://sites.google.com/view/iccc2019-workshop-cc-design/home

MuMe 2019: the 7th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation

Metacreation applies tools and techniques from artificial intelligence, artificial life, and machine learning, themselves often inspired by cognitive and natural science, for creative tasks. Musical Metacreation studies the design and use of these generative tools and theories for music making: discovery and exploration of novel musical styles and content, collaboration between human performers and creative software “partners”, and design of systems in gaming and entertainment that dynamically generate or modify music.

MUME intents to bring together artists, practitioners, and researchers interested in developing systems that autonomously (or interactively) recognize, learn, represent, compose, generate, complete, accompany, or interpret music. As such, we welcome contributions to the theory or practice of generative music systems and their applications in new media, digital art, and entertainment at large.

Workshop Dates

  • Monday 17th June (EXACT TIMES TBC).
  • Tuesday 18th June morning (EXACT TIMES TBC).
  • Concert TBC

Organizers

  • Program Co-Chair Robert M. Keller, Professor, Harvey Mudd College
  • Program Co-Chair Bob L. Sturm, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden
  • Concert Chair Gus Xia, NYU Shanghai
  • Publicity Chair Dr. Oliver Bown, The University of New South Wales

More information

Call webpage (deadline rapidly approaching) http://musicalmetacreation.org/workshops/mume-2019/call-for-participation/

General workshop page http://musicalmetacreation.org

AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft

Generation Challenge in Minecraft

The second annual AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft will announce their main results at ICCC 2019. The competition is about building an algorithm that can build an interesting Minecraft settlement, adapted to a given unseen map. Deadline for submissions is the 14th of April, 2019.

More information

More details can be found on our webpage: http://gendesignmc.engineering.nyu.edu/

Or you can follow us on Twitter: @GenDesignMC