Program
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Day 1, 14 Sep | Day 2, 15 Sep | Day 3, 16 Sep | Day 4, 17 Sep | Day 5, 18 Sep | Full & short papers | Demo session | Poster session
The program on this page may be subject to changes. All times are in Mexico City Time (GMT-5) and UTC/GMT for easy conversion to your specific time zone.
General Program
Days 1 & 2 (September 14, 15)
Doctoral Consortium, Tutorials and Workshops
| Mexico City | UTC / GMT | Day 1, 14 Sep (Tuesday) |
Day 2, 15 Sep (Wednesday) |
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| 7:00 | 12:00 | Second Workshop on the Future of Co-Creative Systems | Doctoral Consortium | ||||
| 8:00 | 13:00 | Tutorial: Live Coding Music with Machine Learning in the Browser |
Tutorial: Using Machine Learning to Build Musical Instruments in the Browser with MIMIC |
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| 9:00 | 14:00 | ||||||
| 10:00 | 15:00 | ||||||
| 11:00 | 16:00 | Tutorial: Avatars for All! |
Break | ||||
| 12:00 | 17:00 | Steering Committee Meeting | Tutorial: Therapeutic Computational Creativity |
Steering Committee Meeting | |||
| 13:00 | 18:00 | ||||||
| 14:00 | 19:00 | ||||||
| 14:30 | 19:30 | ||||||
Days 3, 4 & 5 (September 16-18)
Main Conference
Full papers, Short papers, Special events, Ceremonies and meetings, Posters, Demos, Art exhibition
| Mexico City | UTC / GMT | Day 3, 16 Sep (Thursday) |
Day 4, 17 Sep (Friday) |
Day 5, 18 Sep (Saturday) |
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| 7:50 | 12:50 | Opening ceremony | ||
| 8:00 | 13:00 | AI Keynote Speaker | Other Perspectives: Comedy by Numbers |
Other Perspectives: Animal Innovation |
| 9:00 | 14:00 | Linguistic Creativity I | Visual Creativity I | Linguistic Creativity II |
| 10:00 | 15:00 | Arts & Aesthetics | Social Dimensions I | Linguistic Creativity III |
| 10:36 | 15:36 | Social time III | ||
| 10:48 | 15:48 | Social time I | Social time V | |
| 11:00 | 16:00 | Musical Creativity | Theory & Philosophy | Social Dimensions II |
| 12:00 | 17:00 | Theory & Practice | Tribute to Bob Keller | Visual Creativity II |
| 12:40 | 17:40 | Panel: Opportunities and Challenges for CC |
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| 13:00 | 18:00 | Art Exhibition | Tools & Techniques | |
| 13:40 | 18:40 | Poster Session | Closing Ceremony | |
| 14:00 | 19:00 | Demo Session | Community Meeting | |
| 15:00 | 20:00 | Social time II | Social time IV | |
| 15:30 | 20:30 |
Detailed Program
Days 3, 4 & 5 (September 16-18)
Main Conference
Full papers, Short papers, Special events, Ceremonies and meetings, Posters, Demos, Art exhibition
| Mexico City | UTC / GMT | Day 3, 16 Sep (Thursday) |
Day 4, 17 Sep (Friday) |
Day 5, 18 Sep (Saturday) |
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| 7:50 | 12:50 | Opening ceremony | |||||
| 8:00 | 13:00 | AI Keynote Speaker | Other Perspectives: Comedy by Numbers |
Other Perspectives: Animal Innovation |
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| 9:00 | 14:00 | Linguistic Creativity I | Witscript: A System for Generating Improvised Jokes in a Conversation Joe Toplyn |
Visual Creativity I | Surprising image compositions Othman Sbai, Camille Couprie and Mathieu Aubry |
Linguistic Creativity II | Uncovering Structures in Tropes: Toward a Formal Story Grammar of Films Jean-Peic Chou and Marc Christie |
| 9:20 | 14:20 | Conceptualizing Human-Computer Intersubjectivity to Develop Computational Humor Henna Paakki |
A Deep Learning Pipeline for the Synthesis of Graphic Novels Thomas Melistas, Giannis Siglidis, Fivos Kalogiannis and Ilan Manouach |
Inspiration through Observation: Demonstrating the Influence of Automatically Generated Text on Creative Writing Melissa Roemmele |
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| 9:40 | 14:40 | Exploring a Masked Language Model for Creative Text Transformation Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira |
A Case-Based Approach to Creating Movie Poster Compositions Jorge Alejandro Ramírez Gallardo, Brandon Francisco Hernández Troncoso, Rodrigo Castillo Gómez and Andrés Gómez de Silva Garza |
Nightmare Machine: A Large-Scale Study to Induce Fear using Artificial Intelligence Pinar Yanardag, Nick Obradovich, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan |
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| 10:00 | 15:00 | Art & Aesthetics | Computational filling of curatorial gaps in a fine arts exhibition Arthur Flexer |
Social Dimensions I | The stone of madness meets AI Rafael Perez Y Perez, Lilla Lo Curto and Bill Outcault |
Linguistic Creativity III | Survival of the Wittiest: Evolving Satire with Language Models Thomas Winters and Pieter Delobelle |
| 10:12 | 15:12 | Framing through Music: A Pilot Study Stephen James Krol, Teresa Llano and Cagatay Goncu |
The 7th AISB Symposium on Computational Creativity (CC@AISB2020/21) Anna Jordanous and Juan Alvarado |
Assessing MultiPlot Stories: from Formative Analysis to Computational Metrics Pablo Gervás, Eugenio Concepcion and Gonzalo Mendez |
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| 10:24 | 15:24 | Visual Conceptual Blending with Large-scale Language and Vision Models Songwei Ge and Devi Parikh |
Are machine learning corpora “fair dealing” under Canadian law? Daniel Brown, Lauren Byl and Maura Grossman |
Collaborative Storytelling with Human Actors and AI Narrators Boyd Branch, Piotr Mirowski and Kory Mathewson |
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| 10:36 | 15:36 | What Does it Take to Cross the Aesthetic Gap? The Development of Image Aesthetic Quality Assessment in Computer Vision Samuel Goree |
Social time III | Evaluating Natural Language Descriptions Generated in a Workspace-Based Architecture George Wright and Matthew Purver |
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| 10:48 | 15:48 | Social time I | Social time V | ||||
| 11:00 | 16:00 | Musical Creativity | MuSyFI – Music Synthesis From Images André Santos, H. Sofia Pinto, Rui P. Jorge and Nuno Correia |
Theory & Philosophy | Embodiment and Computational Creativity (Study Paper) Christian Guckelsberger, Anna Kantosalo, Santiago Negrete-Yankelevich and Tapio Takala |
Social Dimensions II | Scientific question generation: pattern-based and graph-based RoboCHAIR methods Senja Pollak, Vid Podpečan, Janez Kranjc, Borut Lesjak and Nada Lavrač |
| 11:20 | 16:20 | Supporting Computational Music Remixing with a Co-Creative Learning Companion Erin J.K. Truesdell, Jason Brent Smith, Sarah Mathew, Gloria Ashiya Katuka, Amanda Griffith, Tom McKlin, Brian Magerko, Jason Freeman and Kristy Elizabeth Boyer |
Creativity and Consciousness: Framing, Fiction and Fraud Geraint Wiggins |
Walking the Line in Computational Creativity: Paradox and Pitfall in the Mitigation of Automated Offense Tony Veale |
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| 11:40 | 16:40 | LyricJam: A system for generating lyrics for live instrumental music Olga Vechtomova, Gaurav Sahu and Dhruv Kumar |
Incorporating Algorithmic Information Theory into Fundamental Concepts of Computational Creativity Tiasa Mondol and Daniel Brown |
Inspiring Social Creativity in Children with a Digital Tool Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Raquel Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Ana Paiva and Carlos Martinho |
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| 12:00 | 17:00 | Theory & Practice | Deciphering The Cookie Monster: A case study in impossible combinations Maria Hedblom, Guendalina Righetti and Oliver Kutz |
Tribute to Bob Keller | Visual Creativity II | MIST: “You Play, I’ll Draw” Juliana Shihadeh and Maya Ackerman |
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| 12:12 | 17:12 | Producing creative chess through chess engine selfplay Wolf De Wulf |
GANlapse Generative Photography Simon Colton and Blanca Perez Ferrer |
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| 12:24 | 17:24 | Meta-Evaluating Quantitative Internal Evaluation: a Practical Approach for Developers Filippo Carnovalini, Nicholas Harley, Steven T. Homer, Antonio Roda and Geraint A. Wiggins |
Adversarial Learning of Expectation and Surprise: Experiments with Geometric Shapes Oseremen Uduehi and Razvan Bunescu |
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| 12:36 | 17:36 | Should Machines Evaluate Us? Opportunities and Challenges Kuakou Bossou and Maya Ackerman |
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| 12:40 | 17:40 | Panel: Opportunities and Challenges for CC |
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| 12:48 | 17:48 | Software Design Patterns of Computational Creativity: A Systematic Mapping Study Porter Glines, Isaac Griffith and Paul Bodily |
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| 13:00 | 18:00 | Art Exhibition | Tools & Techniques | Active Divergence with Generative Deep Learning – A Survey and Taxonomy Terence Broad, Sebastian Berns, Simon Colton and Mick Grierson |
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| 13:20 | 18:20 | Generative Search Engines: First Experiments Simon Colton, Amy Smith, Sebastian Berns and Ryan Murdock |
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| 13:40 | 18:40 | Poster Session | Closing Ceremony | ||||
| 14:00 | 19:00 | Demo Session | Community Meeting | ||||
| 15:00 | 20:00 | Social time II | Social time IV | ||||
| 15:30 | 20:30 | ||||||
Day 3 (September 16)
Demo Session (Main Conference)
Mexico City: 14:00 – 15:00, UTC/GMT: 19:00 – 20:00
| MuSyFI – Music Synthesis From Images André Santos, H. Sofia Pinto, Rui P. Jorge and Nuno Correia |
| A Deep Learning Pipeline for the Synthesis of Graphic Novels Thomas Melistas, Giannis Siglidis, Fivos Kalogiannis and Ilan Manouach |
| Scientific question generation: pattern-based and graph-based RoboCHAIR methods Senja Pollak, Vid Podpečan, Janez Kranjc, Borut Lesjak and Nada Lavrač |
| LyricJam: A system for generating lyrics for live instrumental music Olga Vechtomova, Gaurav Sahu and Dhruv Kumar |
| Computational filling of curatorial gaps in a fine arts exhibition Arthur Flexer |
| SOVIA: Sonification of Visual Interactive Art Lauryn Gayhardt and Maya Ackerman |
| Creating new Program Proofs by Combining Abductive and Deductive Reasoning Kuruvilla George Aiyankovil, Diarmuid O’Donoghue and Rosemary Monahan |
| MIST: “You Play, I’ll Draw” Juliana Shihadeh and Maya Ackerman |
| In the Name of Creativity: En Route to Inspiring Machines Chun-Yien Chang and Ying-Ping Chen |
| CREA.blender: a casual creator for creativity assessment Miroslav Gajdacz, Janet Rafner, Steven Langsford, Arthur Hjorth, Carsten Bergenholtz, Michael Biskjaer, Lior Noy, Sebastian Risi and Jacob Sherson |
| Dynamic Creation of Points of View Alessandro Valitutti |
Day 4 (September 17)
Poster Session (Main Conference)
Mexico City: 13:40 – 15:00, UTC/GMT: 18:40 – 20:00
| When a Computer Cracks a Joke: Automated Generation of Humorous Headlines Khalid Alnajjar and Mika Hämäläinen |
| Ukiyo-e Analysis and Creativity with Attribute and Geometry Annotation Yingtao Tian, Tarin Clanuwat, Chikahiko Suzuki and Asanobu Kitamoto |
| Reflective Creators Max Kreminski and Michael Mateas |
| Metaphor, Blending and Irony in Action: Creative Performance as Interpretation and Emotionally-Grounded Choice Tony Veale and Philipp Wicke |
| Conceptual Expansion Neural Architecture Search (CENAS) Mohan Singamsetti, Anmol Mahajan and Matthew Guzdial |
| Punch Card Knitting Pattern Design in Collaboration with GAN Virginia Melnyk |
| Shape Inference and Grammar Induction for Example-based Procedural Generation Gillis Hermans, Thomas Winters and Luc De Raedt |
| Syllable Neural Language Models for English Poem Generation Danielle Lewis, Andrea Zugarini and Eduardo Alonso |
| Automating Generative Deep Learning for Artistic Purposes: Challenges and Opportunities Sebastian Berns, Terence Broad, Christian Guckelsberger and Simon Colton |
| Entrepreneurship: A New Frontier in Creativity: Towards A Virtual Coach For Startup Engineering Ashok Goel, Mukundan Kuthalam, Sung Hong and Keith McGreggor |
| Ideation via Critic-Based Exploration of Generator Latent Space Puneet Jain, Najma Mathema, Jonathan Skaggs and Dan Ventura |
| Learning to Rank Generated Portmanteaus Lara Pollet, Thomas Winters and Pieter Delobelle |
| SOVIA: Sonification of Visual Interactive Art Lauryn Gayhardt and Maya Ackerman |
| Creating new Program Proofs by Combining Abductive and Deductive Reasoning Kuruvilla George Aiyankovil, Diarmuid O’Donoghue and Rosemary Monahan |
| In the Name of Creativity: En Route to Inspiring Machines Chun-Yien Chang and Ying-Ping Chen |
| CREA.blender: a casual creator for creativity assessment Miroslav Gajdacz, Janet Rafner, Steven Langsford, Arthur Hjorth, Carsten Bergenholtz, Michael Biskjaer, Lior Noy, Sebastian Risi and Jacob Sherson |
| Dynamic Creation of Points of View Alessandro Valitutti |
| Composition, Performance and Evaluation: A Dance Education Framework for AI Systems Sarah Ibrahimi |
| Towards a Visual Language Using Neural Networks Luís Gonçalo, João Miguel Cunha and Penousal Machado |
| A Heavy Duty Computational Model of Conceptual Blending Using Multiple Objective Optimisation João Gonçalves, Pedro Martins and F. Amílcar Cardoso |
| Wölfflin’s Affective Generative Analysis for Visual Art Divyansh Jha, Hanna Chang and Mohamed Elhoseiny |
| The Humble Creative Machine Christopher Cassion, Maya Ackerman and Anna Jordanous |
