Creativity Support: Insights from the Practices of Digital-Atomic Artists

Abstract

The support of human creativity by information and communication technology is an important and interesting area for research. To advance our research in this complex area our approach has been to go back to first principles and study examples of creativity in action. In this paper, we describe in some detail the creative practices of two artists. Their work is particularly interesting to us because of the way it straddles the digital-atomic border. Their creative practices involve not only manipulating paint atoms but also manipulating digital bits. From these studies we identify a number of interesting creativity support areas that suggest further investigation.

Affiliations

School of Computing Science, Middlesex University

The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT

School of Engineering and IT, Deakin University

Burwood,

VIC3125, Australia

Contributors

R. T. Jim Eales

Dharani Perera

Conference

Publication date: September 2007

Publication date (Print): September 2007

Pages: 1-7

ID: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2007.3

Copyright statement: © R. T. Jim Eales et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK

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Conference name: Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 21

Conference location: Lancaster, UK

Conference date: 3 - 7 September 2007

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: British HCI Group Annual Conference

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing