2017 Workshop on Computational Creativity and Social Justice (CCSJ 2017)
June 20th, 2017 – Atlanta, Georgia
Computational creativity intersects social justice in three major ways. First, artificial intelligence systems (many of them arguably computationally creative) play a role in all aspects of our lives: from curating and assessing the media we consume to policing our communities to enabling or rejecting our participation in economic society. Second, computational creativity models, generates and evaluates new forms of art, and art has a long history of cultural commentary and critique, both reflecting and influencing societal values. Third, our community reflects the institutionalized biases that are built into its constituent disciplines and backgrounds, such as discipline-specific rejection of creative work by people with marginalized identities, or reduced prevalence of many groups in computer science and technology.
After the successful workshop on June 20, 2017, the organizers prepared a document summarizing the event, including the paper presentations, the research discussions, and implications for the ICCC community, including suggestions for future ICCC organizers.
• Paper Deadline: April 21st, 2017
• Notifications to Authors: May 5th, 2017
• Camera-Ready Deadline: May 20th, 2017
• Workshop: June 20, 2017
• Breakfast: 8:00-8:45 am
• Session 1, oral presentations: 8:45-10:00 am
o 8:45-9:10: Computational Creativity and Social Justice: Defining the Intellectual Landscape. Gillian Smith.
o 9:10-9:35: Unpack that Tweet: A Traceable and Interpretable Cognitive Modeling System. Upol Ehsan, Christopher Purdy, Christina Kelley, Lalith Polepeddi and Nicholas Davis.
o 9:35-10:00: Leveraging Procedural Narrative and Gameplay to Address Controversial Topics. Benjamin Samuel, Jacob Garbe, Adam Summerville, Jill Denner, Sarah Harmon, Gina Lepore, Chris Martens, Michael Mateas and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
• Refreshments: 10:00-10:30 am
• Session 2, discussions: 10:30 am-12:10 pm
o 10:30-11:40: Collaborative small group discussions
o 11:40-12:10: Large group discussion and next steps
This workshop will bring together researchers from across the community to consider the question: how can computational creativity, as a community and as a field of research, advance social justice? We solicit papers and discussion topics surrounding themes including:
• the politics of computationally creative systems
• diversity in computational creativity
• our social responsibilities as computational creativity researchers
• computational creativity for social commentary
• computational creativity for social change
• broadening participation in computational creativity
• algorithmic bias and computational creativity
Papers should be up to 8 pages in length in the ICCC format, and should be anonymized for double-blind review. Papers can describe technical research, studies, applications of computational creativity, or new systems. Position papers are welcome. We also welcome short papers up to 4 pages in length, which would be appropriate for system demos or works-in-progress.
All papers should be submitted via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccsjw2017. You can find an author toolkit with the ICCC format for LaTeX and Word here: http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2017/ICCC-author-kit.zip
Please contact the organizers with any questions about the workshop:
Gillian Smith – Northeastern University – gi.smith@northeastern.edu
Anne Sullivan – University of Central Florida – anne.sullivan@ucf.edu
Dan Brown – University of Waterloo – dan.brown@uwaterloo.ca