Conference Program

The conference will be held in the city centre of Bolzano, both at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Piazzetta dell’Università, 1) and at the Kolping (Largo Adolph Kolping, 3).

Attendance to coffee and lunch breaks is included in all on-site registration types. All coffee breaks and lunches are served on the terrace of Kolping (Largo Adolph Kolping, 3), the main venue for the conference where also the registration desk can be found.

The conference offers a rich variety of scientific and social activities. More information are provided below:

• Workshop & Tutorials Day 1 program
• Workshop & Tutorials Day 2 program
• Main Conference program
• Social program

Detailed program

Due to a rich and exciting program, we implore authors presenting the papers to adhere to the following strict time restrictions.

On-site presentations:

• Long paper presentations: 20 minutes (including Q&A)
• Short paper presentations: 10 minutes (including Q&A)

Note that short papers with demos will only present their contribution during the demo session.

If you have been given a on-site presentation but will not be able to physically join the conference, let us know asap! We are doing our best to fit everything into the schedule.

Remote presentations:

• Long remote presentations: 8-minute video
• Short remote presentations: 4-minute video

Please upload the video to the correct folder on the link given to you per email the latest on the 24th of June.

Workshop & Tutorials Day 1

 

	Monday, June 27
8.30-9:00	Registration at Kolping
9.00-10.00	Tutorial 2, Kolping: Gruppen raum 2	Workshop 1, unibz: Room F6	Workshop 3, unibz: Room C306 (Online)
10.00-10.30	Coffee break
10.30-13.00	Tutorial 2, Kolping: Gruppen raum 2	Workshop 1, unibz: Room F6	Workshop 3, unibz: Room C306 (Online)
13.00-14.15	Lunch
14.15-16.00	Tutorial 2, Kolping: Gruppen raum 2	Workshop 1, unibz: Room F6	Workshop 2, Kolping: Grosser Saal
16.00-16.30	Coffee break
16.30-18.00	Tutorial 2, Kolping: Gruppen raum 2	Workshop 1, unibz: Room F6	Workshop 2, Kolping: Grosser Saal

 

Workshop 1: Double View But Single Vision? Tracing Artistic Internet Browsers – website.
Workshop 2: The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human and Artificial Creativity – website.
Workshop 3: Therapeutic Computational Creativity & The Third Hand – website.
Tutorial 2: Quantum Computing for Computational Creativity – website.

Workshop & Tutorials Day 2

 

	Tuesday, June 28
8.30-9:00	Registration at Kolping
9.00-10.00	Tutorial 1, unibz: Room F6	Workshop 2, Kolping: Grosser Saal
10.00-10.30	Coffee break
10.30-13.00	Tutorial 1, unibz: Room F6	Workshop 2, Kolping: Grosser Saal	Doctoral Consortium, unibz: Room C306
13.00-14.15	Lunch
14.15-15.30		Workshop 2, Kolping: Grosser Saal	Doctoral Consortium, unibz: Room F6
15.30-16.00	Steering committee meeting
16.00-16.30		Coffee break
16.30-17.00		Workshop 2, Kolping: Grosser Saal
17.15-18.15	Keynote: Aaron Hertzmann
18.15-18.45	Book release
19.00	Reception

Workshop 2: The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human and Artificial Creativity – website.

Tutorial 1:Methods of interacting with computational systems for live artistic performance – website.
Doctoral Consortium: website.

 

Main Conference Program

 

	Wednesday, June 29	Thursday, June 30	Friday, July 1
8.00-8.30	Registration at Kolping	Doors open	Doors open
8.30-9.00	Welcome Talk	Theory and problem solving: Paul Bodily et al. – Open Computational Creativity Problems in Computational Theory // Evana Gizzi et al. – Toward Life-Long Creative Problem Solving: Using World Models for Increased Performance in Novelty Resolution // Patrick Chieppe et al. – Bayesian Modelling of the Well-Made Surprise // Julia Siekiera et al. – Ranking Creative Language Characteristics in Small Data Scenarios> // Daniel Brown et al. – Ethics, Aesthetics and Computational Creativity // Anna Jordanous – Should we pursue SOTA in Computational Creativity?	Cinema session: Guendalina Righetti et al. – A Game of Essence and Serendipity: Superb Owls vs. Cooking-Woodpeckers // Michele Boggia et al. – Casual Poetry Creators: A Design Pattern and Internal Evaluation Measures // Michele Boggia et al. – One Line at a Time — Generation and Internal Evaluation of Interactive Poetry // Vasanth Sarathy – BIPLEX: Creative Problem-Solving by Planning for Experimentation // Alayt Issak et al. – Artistic Autonomy in AI Art // Guanhong Li et al. – Noise as a Key Factor in Realizing a Creative Society // Roisin Loughran – Bias and Creativity // Kieran Maraj et al. – Intergestura: a gestural agent based on sonic meditation practices // Kana Maruyama and Michael Spranger – Interpretable Relational Representations for Food Ingredient Recommendation Systems // Hajime Murai et al. – Extraction of Typical Story Plot Patterns from Genres within Japanese Popular Entertainment Works // Piotr Sawicki et al. – Training GPT-2 to represent two Romantic-era authors: challenges, evaluations and pitfalls // Mei Si – A Novel Word Embedding for Analogy Making // Yingtao Tian et al. – Simultaneous Multiple-Prompt Guided Generation Using Differentiable Optimal Transport // Joe Toplyn – Witscript 2: A System for Generating Improvised Jokes Without Wordplay // Xiaomeng Ye et al. – Generation and Evaluation of Creative Images from Limited Data: A Class-to-Class VAE Approach // Berkeley Andrus – A Data-Driven Architecture for Social Behavior in Creator Networks // Pablo Gervás – Generating Plotlines about Attempting to Avert Disasters // Mika Hämäläinen et al. – Modern French Poetry Generation with RoBERTa and GPT-2 // Berker Banar et al. – Connecting Audio and Graphic Score Using Self-supervised Representation Learning – A Case Study with Gyorgy Ligeti’s Artikulation
9.00-10.00	Generating narratives: Luka Wertz et al. – Adapting Transformer Language Models for Application in Computational Creativity: Generating German Theater Plays with Varied Topics //  Alex Calderwood et al – Spinning Coherent Interactive Fiction through Foundation Model Prompts 65L  // Tony Veale – Two-Fisted Comics Generation: Comics as a Medium and as a Representation for Creative Meanings
10.00-10.30	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
10.30-11.30	Keynote: Allison Parrish	Keynote: Ellen Pearlman	Keynote: Oliviero Stock
11.30-13.00	Co-creative systems: Jessica Bielski et al. – Chasing the White Rabbit – A case study of predicting design phases of architects by training a deep neural network with sketch recognition through a digital drawing board // Caterina Moruzzi – The (Artificial) Physicality of Creativity: How Embodiment Influences Perceptions of Creativity // Alla Gubenko et al. – From Social Robots to Creative Humans and Back // Francisco Ibarrola et al. – Towards Co-Creative Drawing Based on Contrastive Language-Image Models // Janita Aamir et al – Implementation of an Anti-Plagiarism Constraint Model for Sequence Generation Systems //	Generative art: Aaron Hertzmann – Toward Modeling Creative Processes for Algorithmic Painting // Divyansh Jha et al. – Creative Walk Adversarial Networks: Novel Art Generation with Probabilistic Random Walk Deviation from Style Norms // Emmanouil Vermisso – Semantically assisted AI pedagogies for generative architectural design // Marvin Zammit et al. – Seeding Diversity into AI Art // Daniel Brown et al. – Is style reproduction a computational creativity task?	Creative meaning: Diarmuid O’Donoghue – Novelty Assurance by a Cognitively Inspired Analogy Approach to Uncover Hidden Similarity // Max Peeperkorn et al. -Mechanising Conceptual Spaces using Variational Autoencoders // Brad Spendlove et al. – Competitive Language Games as Creative Tasks with Well-Defined Goals
13.00-14.30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14.30-15.30	Social Activity	Music and applications: Claire Stevenson et al. Putting GPT-3’s Creativity to the (Alternative Uses) Test // Sara Cardinale et al. – Neo-Riemannian Theory for Generative Film and Videogame Music // Berker Banar et al. -Connecting Audio and Graphic Score Using Self-supervised Representation Learning – A Case Study with Gyorgy Ligeti’s Artikulation // Skylar Gordon et al. – Co-creation and ownership for AI radio // Alison Pease et al. – A Roadmap for Therapeutic Computational Creativity	Social aspects and evaluation: Ziv Epstein et al. – When happy accidents foster creativity: Bringing collaborative speculation to life with generative AI // Berkeley Andrus et al. – A Data-Driven Architecture for Social Behavior in Creator Networks // Piera Riccio et al. – Algorithmic Censorship of Art: A Proposed Research Agenda // Anna Kantosalo et al. – How to Report the Contributions of a CC System? // Benjamin Fele et al. – Evaluation of Curriculum Learning Algorithms using Computational Creativity Inspired Metrics
15.30-16.00		Electroacoustic music concert – Conservatory Claudio Monteverdi, Sala Piccola. Cello & live electronics, audiovisuals and multichannel acousmatic music by Prof. Gustavo Delgado’s electronic music class. Special guest: Nicola Baroni.
16.00-16.30			Coffee break / General Assembly
16.30-16.45		Coffee break
16.45-17.00		Demo session with Coffee: Paul Bodily – Open Computational Creativity Problems in Computational Theory // Amy Smith – The @artbhot Text-To-Image Twitterbot // Piotr Mirowski – CLIP-CLOP: CLIP-Guided Collage and Photomontage // Paul Bodily – Implementation of an Anti-Plagiarism Constraint Model for Sequence Generation Systems // Alessandro Valitutti – The Word-Weaving Clock: Time Constraints in Word Associations // Philippe Pasquier – Calliope: A Co-creative Interface for Multi-Track Music Generation // Shin Sano – D-Graph: AI-Assisted Design Concept Exploration Graph // Chaz Gundry – Conversational AI as Improvisational Co-Creation – A Dialogic Perspect	Community meeting
17.15-17.45
17.45-18.00			Conference Finale
18.00-18.15		Panel debate
18.15-19.00
19.00-19.30
19.30		Social Dinner