CCS History

Creativity and Cognition Studios arose from a concern for the intersection of art and technology that Ernest Edmonds and others first developed in the late 1960s. The concern flowered with the instigation of the Creativity and Cognition conference series by Ernest Edmonds and Linda Candy in 1993. C&C is now a regular event in the Association of Computing Machinery's SIGCHI calendar.

In 1996, a research programme in Creativity and Cognition began at Loughborough University, UK. It was based on artist-in-residence programmes in which action-based research studies of artist and technologist collaborations were conducted. The Candy and Edmonds book, Explorations in Art and Technology, reports on the first few years of this work.

In 2002, the Creativity and Cognition Studios research moved across the world to Sydney and has now re-formed in an enhanced form at the University of Technology, Sydney where it is part of the strategic research development of the University.