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)
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
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)
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
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)
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
12:12 17:12 Producing creative chess through chess engine selfplay
Wolf De Wulf
GANlapse Generative Photography
Simon Colton and Blanca Perez Ferrer
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
12:36 17:36 Should Machines Evaluate Us? Opportunities and Challenges
Kuakou Bossou and Maya Ackerman
 
12:40 17:40 Panel:
Opportunities and Challenges for CC
12:48 17:48 Software Design Patterns of Computational Creativity: A Systematic Mapping Study
Porter Glines, Isaac Griffith and Paul Bodily
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
13:20 18:20 Generative Search Engines: First Experiments
Simon Colton, Amy Smith, Sebastian Berns and Ryan Murdock
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