{"id":711,"date":"2026-08-01T10:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/?p=711"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:25:27","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  A major highlight of ICCC\u201926 was celebrating the outstanding work presented<br \/>\n  throughout the conference. For those who could not attend, and to recognise<br \/>\n  these contributions once again, we are delighted to share the 2026 award<br \/>\n  winners announced during the conference.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n  Theory as Architecture: Why Aesthetic Frameworks Should Constitute,<br \/>\n  Not Merely Evaluate, AI Art Systems<br \/>\n  Atticus Sims\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Student Paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n  What Makes Literary Quotes Stand Out? A Multidimensional Analysis of<br \/>\n  Literary Creativity<br \/>\n  Berke Yazan, Almila Akdag, and Davide Dell&#8217;Anna\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Short Paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n  Before the Prompt: Heteromorphic Imagination and the Cognitive Cost<br \/>\n  of Premature Crystallization in Human-AI Co-Creativity<br \/>\n  Emil Polyak and Rghad Balkhyoor\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Poster Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n  Back to Back with a Copy: A Computational Analysis of AI-Generated<br \/>\n  Visual Contemporary Art Pastiches<br \/>\n  Anca Dinu, Andreiana Mihail, Andra-Maria Florescu, Claudiu Creang\u0103, and<br \/>\n  Liviu P. Dinu\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  World-State Transformations to Foster Player Creativity in<br \/>\n  Neuro-symbolic Interactive Storytelling<br \/>\n  Santiago G\u00f3ngora, Luis Chiruzzo, Gonzalo Mendez, and Pablo Gerv\u00e1s\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Congratulations to all the authors for their excellent contributions to<br \/>\n  ICCC\u201926!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major highlight of ICCC\u201926 was celebrating the outstanding work presented throughout the conference. For those who could not attend, and to recognise these contributions once again, we are delighted to share the 2026 award winners announced during the conference. Best Paper Theory as Architecture: Why Aesthetic Frameworks Should Constitute, Not Merely Evaluate, AI Art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computationalcreativity.net\/iccc26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}