Conference

Workshops and Tutorials

The following workshops will be hosted at ICCC:

 

Colors of AI

AI is both colorful and white, it’s the bright neon colors of the fantasy scenes as well as the systematic whitening of the skin color. In this workshop, we wish to explore the colors in and of AI, spanning from the AI representation of colors in art and the palette of generative AI, to how AI promotes biases of colors in society and its imbalance among the creators of computer creative systems. The workshop is hands-on, striving for a creative environment where the different views and facets of colors in AI can be synthesized into collaborative creative writing and/or an artistic process. To allow more flexibility in developing a shared narrative around the colors of AI, we will accept participants based on abstract submissions.

Detailed information can be found at:
https://dvstudies.net/2024/01/25/colors-of-ai-computational-creativity/

Organizing Committee
Piera Riccio (ELLIS Alicante Foundation, Spain)
Ludovica Schaerf (UZH-MPG, Switzerland)
Dr. Darío Negueruela del Castillo (UZH-MPG, Switzerland)
Dr. Dejan Grba (University of the Arts in Belgrade, Serbia)
Dr. Nuria Oliver (ELLIS Alicante Foundation, Spain)

 

Fictional News Articles: Ethics, Sustainability, and Politics of Creative-AI Futures

There has been an increasing interest in discussing ethics, sustainability and politics of AI technologies that support and accompany creative processes (Creative-AI). This workshop brings such implications into focus by exploring them through Fictional News Articles. We use Fictional News Articles to cast forward 10 years to imagine the trajectories of the future Creative-AI, and reflect on how and why they may emerge. By writing Fictional News Articles – articles of events that are yet to take place and to be written – we will unpack critical tensions in the advancement of AI over the next decade. The workshop invites participants to develop perspectives and sensitivities on the assumptions, methods, and tools for enabling (and disabling) such futures, with a particular focus on questions of ethics, sustainability and politics, building on prior years workshop on “fictional research abstracts”.

Detailed information can be found at:
https://www.creative-ai-project.se/seminars/wasp-hs-workshop-fictional-news-articles/

Organizing Committee
Petra Jääskeläinen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Camilo Sanchez (Aalto University, Finland)
Anna-Kaisa Kaila (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
André Holzapfel (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

 

Come play Codenames against a CC agent, or write your own!

Come play Codenames against a CC agent, or write your own! Codenames is an award-winning game in which two teams compete to decipher one-word clues given by their respective “spymasters”. Successfully playing this game requires many skills including understanding word relationships, evaluating the relative value of clues, and the ability to quickly search a large set of possible clues. Come to our ICCC workshop to learn about computational approaches to this interesting and challenging task! In this full-day workshop, participants can get hands-on experience with designing their own AI agent to play Codenames. Please note that while every conference attendee is invited to attend the gameplay and discussions, any participants who wish to build or modify a Codenames agent must bring their own laptop.

Detailed information can be found at:
https://rmorain.github.io/codenames-workshop/

Organizing Committee
Brad Spendlove (Randolph College, USA)
Robert Morain (Brigham Young University, USA)

 

Modeling composition and performance of traditional music with AI

This tutorial aims at giving an overview of the state-of-the-art in modeling composition and performance of folk music, with a special focus on the Irish and Swedish traditions. We will discuss motivations, techniques and challenges, as well as addressing broader aesthetic and ethical considerations. The tutorial will start with an introduction of the models and their mechanisms, followed by some hands-on examples with code. After that we will generate a new tune with the attendees, who are also invited to learn and perform it together with us and our performance system.

Detailed information can be found at:
https://musaiclab.wordpress.com/iccc-2024-tutorial-modeling-composition-and-performance-of-traditional-music-with-ai/

Organizing Committee
Luca Casini (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Marco Amerotti (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

 

Ethical co-creativity with AI: a hands-on workshop

This hands-on workshop explores how software engineering techniques used to develop AI systems can be translated into creative practice to support and facilitate human – AI co-creativity. The workshop introduces participants to techniques for identifying ethical concerns around AI, and explores how these concerns can inspire creative output across different domains. As part of this workshop, participants will be offered the opportunity to develop a creative output such as a story or piece of art inspired by AI ethical concerns, using AI as a co-creative tool. Participants will then work collaboratively to analyse and improve these outputs using a modified version of existing AI development hazard analysis techniques.

Detailed information can be found at:
https://austenrainer.github.io/stoics/iccc2024workshop.html

Organizing Committee
Professor Austen Rainer (Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland)
Dr Catherine Menon (University of Hertfordshire, England)

 

Workshop on the Study of Commercial Creative AI (ComCAI)

Since the late 2010s, commercial applications of creative AI (ComCAI) have flourished. This sector has evolved in a way that is largely disconnected from traditional academic research in computational creativity (CC). It emerged in parallel, driven by certain economic, social, and technical-infrastructural conditions, and was then superpowered by a specific series of breakthroughs in deep learning and an associated AI investment boom. This workshop invites longstanding members of the CC community to engage in deep interdisciplinary scoping with researchers from further afield who are newer to creative AI or less familiar with the CC literature.

Detailed information can be found at:
https://blogs.unsw.edu.au/iml/workshop-on-the-study-of-commercial-creative-ai-comcai/

Organizing Committee
Oliver Bown (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Georgina Born (University College London, England)
Rebecca Fiebrink (University of the Arts London, England)
Anna Jordanous (University of Kent, England)
Bob Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Simon Colton (Queen Mary University of London, England)
Rujing Stacy Huang (University of Hong Kong, China)