We survey the history of studies of Computational Creativity, following the development of
the International Conference on Computational Creativity from its beginnings, a decade ago …

No methodology has been accepted as standard for evaluating the creativity of a system in
the field of computational creativity and the multi-faceted and subjective nature of creativity …

We argue for an approach to the theory of music which starts from the position that music is
primarily a construct of human minds (and secondarily a social construct) and contrast it with …

In this paper we consider artists who create their work by writing algorithms, which when
interpreted by a computer generates their plotted drawings, synthesised music, animated …

This thesis is concerned with cognitively-motivated representations of musical structure.
Three problems are addressed, each related in terms of their focus on music as an object of …

The 'Special Period'in Cuba was an extended era of economic depression starting in the
early 1990s, characterized by the collapse of revolutionary values and social norms, and a …

Computer programming is central to the digital arts, and is a comparatively new creative
activity. We take an anthropocentric view of computer programming in the arts, examining …

Teaching students how to write computer programs has remained a challenge. Whether a
student is new to programming or has some experience they often have not had enough to …

In this thesis, we approach these questions by defining and implementing a multi-scale
model for music segment structure description, called Polytopic Graph of Latent Relations …

Phonetic symbols describe movements of the vocal tract, tongue and lips, and are combined
into complex movements forming the words of language. In music, vocables are words that …