CC 2013 - The 9th Conference on Creativity and Cognition

The University of Technology, Sydney will host the International Conference on Creativity and Cognition from the 17th to the 20th of June 2013. The organising committee would like to invite you to join us in Sydney for another conference in this very successful series of conferences on Creativity and Cognition.
June 2013 will be an exciting time for Sydney, as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2013) will run from the 7th to 16th, alongside the Vivid Festival of Arts.
Creativity and Cognition 2013 will feature a strong academic program, alongside flagship art exhibitions and music events, as well as tutorials and workshops. A doctoral symposium will also be run for graduate students, as has been done in previous years.
A call for papers will be announced shortly.
Organising Committee:
Co-Chairs: Yukari Nagai (JAIST, Japan), Sam Ferguson (UTS, Sydney)
Program Chair: Tom Hewett (Drexel U, USA)
Treasurer: Andrew Johnston (UTS, Sydney)
Poster and Demos Chair: Kazushi Nishimoto (JAIST, Japan)
Art Program Chair: Ian Gwilt (Sheffield Hallam U, UK)
Music Program Chair: Kirsty Beilharz (UTS, Sydney)
Publicity and Sponsorship Chair: Deborah Turnbull (UNSW, Sydney)
Previous Conferences in this series may be accessed below:
2011: Creativity and Technology (High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia)
2009: Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action (Berkeley, Ca. USA)
2007: Seeding Creativity:Tools, Media and Environments (Washington D.C.)
2005: Creative Process and Artefact Creation: Practice, Digital Media and Support Tools (London)
2002: Processes and Artefacts: Art, Science and Technology (Loughborough UK)
1999: Intersections and Collaborations (Loughborough UK)
1996: Second International Symposium (Loughborough UK)
1993: An International Symposium (Loughborough UK)
Topics for the conference will include:
Creativity in arts, music, story telling, poetry, design, science, etc.
Everyday creativity
Individual, collaborative and collective creativity
Participatory creativity, organizational creativity and creative communities
Democratizing creativity, do-it-yourself and folk creativity
Education and training in creativity
Creativity in education and training
Embodiment, sensations, perceptions, emotions and behaviors in creativity
Visual and perceptual representations in creativity
New materials and processes for creativity
Emerging technologies and media in creativity
Digital media and technologies for creativity including graphics,
visualization, virtual reality, augmented reality and tangible computing
Social computing and media in creativity
Interactive arts, theatre, music, games, story telling, design, science, etc.
Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods
Case studies and ethnographic analyses
Reflective accounts of individual and collaborative practice
Cognitive and cognitive neuroscience models of creativity
Information-processing and computational models of creativity
Creative systems, tools and applications
Social and cultural studies of creativity
Transdisciplinary metaphors, methods, models