Call for participation
Virtual Workshop on the Future of Co-creative Systems: 7th/8th September 2020
The International Conference on Computational Creativity, and all of its associate workshops, will be held virtually this year. As a result we'd like to invite the community to participate in a different kind of workshop experience. In addition to offering up a set of video talks from our accepted abstracts, we're going to work together to solve a problem.
For 24 hours from the 7th to the 8th of September, we'd like to set the community a challenge: Work with us to define a research agenda for the future of co-creative systems -- an agenda we hope to write up as a position paper in the weeks following the event. It's open to anyone, and it's going to be a five-step process:
- Start by watching our pre-recorded talks and get stuck into the discussion in the comments. There are going to be 13 short videos, each outlining some interesting and original current directions in co-creativity research.
- Attend our live kick-off session, then get into a small team of like-minded collaborators to discuss and synthesise the issues most pressing to our research community.
- Work with your team over a 24hr period to brainstorm and refine a vision for the area of co-creativity you've chosen, documenting it in our online workspace.
- Present your slice of the future of co-creativity at our wrap-up session, where we collectively put it all together and try to come up with a coherent and concise vision.
- If you're keen to stay involved, circle back after the conference and help us turn the results of the workshop into a position paper.
We're serious about that last bit, by the way, as radical as it seems. We're going to turn this thing into a journal article, and we want your help to do so. Anyone can get on board, whether you submitted to the workshop or not, so come on by and help us write this thing up. We've got some standards posted on our website about what you'd need to do to be an author or an acknowledged contributor, but we're entirely open to having the entire workshop be co-authors on this one.
Call for papers (DL was May 25th)
Attendees may submit extended abstracts (~400wds, about one page) that they are willing to present and discuss. Talks will be short and focussed on encouraging discussion rather than presenting the details of work.
Abstracts should cover existing work that deploys or studies co-creativity (including the study of collaborative creativity amongst people, where this can be applied to computational co-creativity), radical ideas and design visions and theoretical questions. We are particularly interested in (i) open questions in co-creativity research, (ii) finding a common language for co-creativity research. Abstracts should address one or both of these topics to some extent, and should be focused on ideas that can generate discussion and ideation.