New to Computational Creativity?

The last few years have seen incredible progress in the generative capacities of AI and machine learning. In many creative domains such as writing, art and music generation, state-of-the-art AI-algorithms can now create works that to a casual observer are comparable to those of human professionals. This new paradigm has brought attention to AI-generated content from both academia, industry and the general public, resulting in an explosion of system development, application of such systems and societal awareness. Hand-in-hand with the development, the importance of dealing with the ethical considerations and the authenticity of AI-generated content is at an all time high.

Computational creativity, as a field, has been investigating these questions for decades. The Association for Computational Creativity (ACC) has since 2010 organised the yearly International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), the only scientific conference which entirely focuses on AI creativity specifically. The conference series, and the associated workshops, act as a platform for researchers of any discipline to meet and discuss the how and what of creativity in any computational setting. Whatever domain you’re working in, if your work concerns generative AI or any other computational model that you’re trying to make exhibit creative behaviors, we’d love you to come share it with us.

This year’s conference will take you to beautiful Swedish town Jönköping ( [ˈjœ̂nːˌɕøːpɪŋ]), perfectly tucked in between mirror-clear lakes, fairytale forest and mountainous hills. Further, taking place between the 17th and 21st of June, 2024, the conference will culminate in one of Sweden’s most celebrated holidays: Midsummer! Thus, we invite you to join us discussing the creative character of computational and AI systems while engaging in the Swedish national passtime of “Fika” – having too much coffee and cake, greet Mother Nature in the beauty of the Swedish forest and join us in celebrating Midsummer: the most magical time of the year!

ICCC’24 is an interdisciplinary venue open to all researchers, practitioners and artists to submit work related to AI and Creativity. The ICCC community includes researchers with interests as broad as games, literature, visual communication, software development, the sciences, design, and engineering, alongside of course AI and ML. Hence, whatever your field, whatever your background, join us!