CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2007

** Announcement **
** Students can still register at early registration rate. **

CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2007
Tutorials, workshops and main conference still have spaces.

Join us at Creativity & Cognition 2007 in Washington DC, June 13-15.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/

Creativity & Cognition 2007 is focused on theme of cultivating and sustaining creativity: understanding how to design and evaluate computational support tools, digital media, and socio-technical environments that not only empower our creative processes and abilities, but that also encourage and nurture creative mindsets and lifestyles.

The Creativity & Cognition Conference series began in 1993 and has evolved into a lively multidisciplinary event combining research and practice. Rigorous research is expanding as theoretic foundations are emerging and goals become more well-defined. Successful practice manifests itself in a growing array of creativity support tools for discovery and composition by software and other engineers, diverse scientists, product and graphic designers, architects, new media artists, musicians, educators, students, and many others. We believe that deeper understanding of creative processes and improved support tools can make more people more creative more of the time.

CONFERENCE EVENTS
Plan your time to participate in the conference opening reception on Wednesday June 13, 2007 at 6pm at the National Academy where our three month Art Exhibit will open and we will have a prestigious panel (Rita Colwell, Sara Diamond, Paul Greenhalgh, and William Wulf) discussion on Bridging Art and Science with Creativity Support Tools.
Our second conference event on Thursday June 14, 2007 will begin with a light reception at the Jurys Hotel followed by a visit to the Corcoran Gallery of Art to visit the exhibit Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939. The main conference is Thursday and Friday June 14-15, 2007, at the Jurys Hotel. Join us for the Papers and Demos, with opening and closing Keynote Speakers Mitchell Resnick and Thecla Schiphorst.

We expect this to be an enjoyable, fascinating and influential event. Join us for the experience. Full details are available at:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/


IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshops
Workshop deadlines have been extended for attendees
(presentations are filled). Please contact the workshop organizers.

1) Design Creativity:
Yong Se Kim and Toshiharu Taura
2) Tools in Support of Creative Collaboration:
Piotr D. Adamczyk, Kevin Hamilton, Michael B. Twidale, Brian P. Bailey
3) Pulling Back the Shroud: Modeling Creativity
David A. Shamma and Ryan Shaw

Tutorials (Registration is open)
1) Understanding and Evaluating Creativity (full day)
Linda Candy and Zafer Bilda, UTS Sydney, Australia
2) Early Computer Art: Creativity and Computability (half day)
Frieder Nake, University of Bremen, Germany
3) Visualization and the Art of Metaphor (half day)
Jack Ox, Freelance Artist Graduate Student Symposium (Registration is complete)
Mary Czerwinski and Jim Hollan

Conference Opening Reception at National Academy of Sciences Building
Art Exhibit: Pamela Jennings
Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: Shared Visions between Art and Technology

Evening Panel
Bridging Art and Science with Creativity Support Tools
Rita Colwell, University of Maryland, former Director, U.S. National Science Foundation Sara Diamond, President, Ontario College of Art & Design, Canada
Paul Greenhalgh, Director, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
William Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering, USA

Thursday June 14, 2007
Conference Papers, Demos & Posters
Keynote: Mitch Resnick, MIT, USA
Evening Reception & Visit to Corcoran Gallery of Art

Friday June 15, 2007
Conference Papers, Demos & Posters
Keynote: Thecla Schiphorst, Simon Fraser University, Canada