Creativity & Cognition 2005
A Creativity & Cognition Studios Conference hosted by Goldsmiths College.
London 12-15 April 2005

5th International Conference on Creativity & Cognition 2005

Programme



Timetable:

Tuesday 12th April | Wednesday 13th April | Thursday 14th April | Friday 15th April

All paper sessions will take place in the Ian Gulland lecture theatre

Tuesday 12th April

From 8.30am Registration- Whitehead Foyer

9.00-5.30pm Tutorial- Small Hall, main building

Cognitive Factors in Design: Human Memory and Problem Solving
Thomas Hewett

9.00-5.30pm Invited Workshop- Room 139, Main building

Freedom and Constraint in the Creative Process: An AHRB Workshop
John Haworth, Sue Gollifer, James Faure-Walker, Paul Coldwell, Tom Kemp, Jon Pengelly

6.00 pm Welcome Reception- Ben Pimlott Building

The Exhibition Opening

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Wednesday 13th April

8.45 am Welcome Address: Conference Chair Ernest Edmonds -Ian Gulland lecture theatre

9.00-10.30 Session 1: Chair Thomas Hewett -Ian Gulland lecture theatre

Causality in Virtual Reality Art
Marc Cavazza, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Sean Crooks, Alok Nandi and Mark Palmer
The Homespun Museum: Computers, Fabrication, and the Design of Personalized Exhibits
Michael Eisenberg, Nwanua Elumeze, Leah Buechley, Glenn Blauvelt, Susan Hendrix, and Ann Eisenberg
Computational Schemes for Biomimetic Sculpture
Brower Hatcher, Karl Aspelund, Frederic Leymarie, Andrew Willis, Jasper Speicher, David B. Cooper

10.30-11.00 Break -foyer, Whitehead Building

11.00-12.30 Session 2: Chair Janis Jefferies -Ian Gulland lecture theatre

Memory Rich Clothing: Second Skins that Communicate Physical Memory
Joanna Berzowska
Constituting, Traversing and Perforating Boundaries: Embodied Interaction in Immersive Virtual Spaces
Petra Gemeinboeck
Gridjam
Jack Ox

12.30-2.00 Lunch senior common room, main building

2.00-4.00 Session 3: Chair Paul Brown -Ian Gulland lecture theatre

Computer Art. A Recollection
Frieder Nake
The Tools of Online Community the first five years of the trAce Online Writing Centre
Sue Thomas
The CACHe Project: Its Work and Outcomes
Nicholas Lambert

4.00-4.30 Break -foyer, Whitehead Building

4.30-5.30 Session 4: Chair Paul Brown -Ian Gulland lecture theatre

A Cultural Systems Theory of Collaboration in Art & Technology
Stephen Jones
On Cognitive Systems and Creativity
George Mallen

7.00 pm Invited Public Keynote Lecture at The Science Museum

To be held at the Dana Centre, Science Museum

Professor Margaret Boden
Aesthetics and Interactive Art
Chair Ernest Edmonds

The keynote will be followed by a talk by Andrew Shoben of Greyworld who will be talking about some of his recent interactive public art projects.

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Thursday 14th April

9.00-10.30 Session 5: Chair Freider Nake-Ian Gulland lecture theatre

Sponge: A Case Study in Practice-based Collaborative Art Research
Christopher Salter and Sha Xin Wei
The Development of a Cybernetic Sculptor: Edward Ihnatowicz and The Senster
Aleksandar Zivanovic
The Summer 1968 in London and Zagreb: Starting or End Point for Computer Art?
Christoph Klütsch

10.30-11.00 Break -foyer, Whitehead Building

11.00-12.30 Session 6: Chair Robert Zimmer -Ian Gulland lecture theatre

Understanding Design as a Social Creative Process
Andy Warr and Eamonn O'Neill
Distances and Diversity: Sources for Social Creativity
Gerhard Fischer
A Strange Dance: The Creative Collaborative Origins & Processes of "9 Evenings": Theatre and Engineering
Robin Oppenheimer

12.30-2.00 Lunch senior common room, main building

2.00-4.00 Session 7: Chair Linda Candy -Ian Gulland lecture theatre

Digital Cultural Communication: Designing Co-creative New Media Environments
Jerry Watkins and Angelina Russo
Supporting Reflective Practice in Creativity Education
Norio ISHII and Kazuhisa MIWA
The Amateur Creator
Stephen Boyd Davis and Magnus Moar
Amplifying Reflective Thinking in Musical Performance
Andrew Johnston, Shigeki Amitani and Ernest Edmonds

4.00-4.30 Break -foyer, Whitehead Building

4.30-5.30 Session 8: Chair Linda Candy.

Posters and Demonstrations rooms 300,304,325,323 in the main building and in the Ben Pimlott Building

6.00 pm Special Tasting Event

From 7.00 pm Conference Dinner and private view at the Tate Modern

(for those who have registered for conference only)

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Friday 15th April

9.30-10.30 Session 9: Chair Gerhard Fischer -Ian Gulland lecture theatre

Reflections on Critical Interaction Design Methodologies and Interdisciplinary Team Development for the Constructed Narratives Project
Pamela Jennings
Developing Character Personas and Scenarios: Vital Steps in Theatrical Performance and Goal-Directed HCI Design
Lori Shyba and James Tam

10.30-11.00 Break -foyer, Whitehead Building

11.00-12.30 Session 10: Chair Gerhard Fischer -Ian Gulland lecture theatre

From Function to Context to Form: Precedents and Focus Shifts in the Form Creation Process
John Restrepo and Henri Christiaans
Gesture and Response in Field-Based Performance
Sha Xin-Wei, Satinder Gill
Losers and Finders: Indexing Audio-Visual Media
Mike Leggett

12.30-2.00 Lunch senior common room, main building

2.00-3.30 Session 11: Chair Paul Brown. Panel: Creating Histories-Ian Gulland lecture theatre

Panellists: Margaret Boden, Phil Husbands, Catherine Mason, Alan Sutcliffe

3.30-4.00 Break -foyer, Whitehead Building

5.30 pm Close of conference