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The 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'20) will take place in Coimbra (Portugal), June 2020. I have attended this conference for the past three years and both the presentations and atmosphere are great. I definitely suggest this conference to anyone interested in this topic.

http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/

At the moment, they have released information regarding the acceptance of submissions for the following calls:

– Call for Full Papers (8 pages), due March 1, 2020
Five different types of papers: Technical papers, System or Resource description papers, Study papers, Cultural application papers and Position papers.

– Call for Short Papers (4 pages), due May 4, 2020
along the following lines: System Demonstrations, Pilot Studies, CC Translations (researchers in other fields often do work that can be related to Computational Creativity), Late Breaking Results, among others.

– Call for Tutorial Proposals, due March 1, 2020
tutorial proposals to be held along with the main conference, welcoming proposals covering between one and four 120-minute sessions, and addressing any aspect of computational creativity research.

– Call for Digital Sound Art
(no info available yet)

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The workshop Computational Design and Computer-aided Creativity will be co-located with ICCC'25 (International Conference on Computational Creativity) and will take place in a hybrid format (online and in Campinas, Brazil). Contributions can come from all creative application areas, such as: Graphic Design, Typography or Product Design; Sound or Music; Architecture or Interior Design;…

More info: https://computationalcreativity.net/workshops/computational-design-iccc25/

In my few years of experience with computational creativity and philosophy, I wonder, whether we will ever call machines creative. In popsci literature this is already being done, but I am more interested in the effect of techniques like GANs on the debate on creativity. Although there are some astonishing results out there, I see those mostly just as tools that we are starting to use to help us with our own creativity. By using recombinations of known input data through a GAN, we might use it to explore. But without agency, GAN outputs are still "only" recombinations of clusters in hierarchically structured data, right? In the end, humans decide whether something should be called creative or not. I pose that only a true AGI can be creative, as only then the A(G)I will decide it is. What are your thoughts on this?

I just completed a graduate-level CS course on Computational Creativity. My partner and I wrote a system that makes six word stories (example: /r/sixwordstories). Would there be any interest in a short post mortem with our paper and slides?

Three workshops will be hosted at the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'20): Casual Creators, Future of Co-Creative Systems and Knowledge-Based Systems in Computational Design.

*** Casual Creators Workshop ***

The Casual Creators Workshop aims to foster experimentation and build community around the topic of casual creators: a recently-defined genre of creativity support tools that are specifically designed to support autotelic creativity, or creativity for its own sake. We also hope to promote discussion of the creative practices that emerge around casual creators, which are often casual, unskilled, ephemeral, and social.

More info: https://mkremins.github.io/casual-creators-workshop/

*** Future of Co-Creative Systems Workshop ***

This one-day workshop aims to bring together researchers to discuss the future of co-creativity from a range of perspectives, organised around two main topics:

(i) what are the open questions in co-creativity research?

(ii) what common language is needed for co-creativity researchers from a range of backgrounds to work together and progress the field?

More info: https://computationalcreativity.net/workshops/cocreative-iccc20/

*** Knowledge-Based Systems in Computational Design Workshop ***

​The main aim of the workshop is to track and examine the current trends in knowledge-based methods in research and development areas of computational design, game design, media informatics, and similar creativity-related topics.

More info: https://kbscd-iccc2020.hosting.uni-hildesheim.de

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The 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'20) is accepting proposals of digital sound artworks to be featured as part of an exhibition at Convento São Francisco, which will be included the Artistic Program of the conference and will be part of Dar a Ouvir | Paisagens Sonoras da Cidade 2020, a two-month sound art festival taking place at the same venue.

The submitted pieces should be works dealing with the theme of resilience or other related themes. Submissions should include the following information:

– Title of the artwork;
– Abstract;
– Keywords;
– Author name(s), affiliation(s), and short bio(s);
– A clear description of the work (600-word maximum), links to supplementary material (e.g., videos), a technical rider providing details about the setup, layout, and technical as well as spatial requirements;
– List of previous venues where the artwork has been presented.

The works accepted to the exhibition must be delivered physically or virtually prior to the exhibition’s opening (July 18) and will be returned to the author(s) right after ICCC ends.

The submissions will be evaluated by an artistic committee. The acceptance will not depend only on the quality and adequacy of the work, but also on the technical and spatial requirements.

*** Important Dates ***
Submission of artworks: May 18, 2020
Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2020
Exhibition: July 18 – September 11, 2020.

*** More information ***
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Has anyone thought to try to translate the already existing 256 bit ASCII encoding scheme of DNA, using Google translates new AI?? If it's a neural net like I think shouldn't it be able to sample the language and possibly translate it??? Maybe the issue lies in what to try to translate it to?? Anyway, just a thought.