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Exploring Embodiment’s Role in Creativity with Live Artistic Performances
Get PDFThe paper engages with the role of embodiment in perceptions of creativity, by discussing the aims and motivations behind the workshop ‘The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human & Artificial Creativity’, organized by the authors in the context of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC’22. This workshop pioneered a novel format for the Computational Creativity community in which artists are on hand to physically share and discuss their process with the research audience. We describe the structure of the workshop and the methodology followed in designing the audience survey conducted during the first day. Lastly, we argue for the relevance of more in-field studies aimed at testing the role played by the interaction with live artistic processes on evaluations of creativity.publishe
Caterina Colombini, o della cugina sedotta. Una ‘ricostruzione’ della figura di Caterina attraverso i testi
Get PDFIn this essay the author demonstrates that it is possible to “reconstruct” the figure of Caterina Colombini (1340?-1387) – Giovanni Colombini’s cousin – through a group of texts: the hagiography of Caterina, the letters sent to her by Giovanni Colombini and, finally, Giovanni’s biography written by Feo Belcari. The author divides his text into four parts: the first part analyzes the content of Caterina’s hagiography; the second examines the linguistic form of the hagiographic text; in the third, the author analyzes the latent meaning of the window, a symbolic place where Giovanni and Caterina converse on divine topics; in the last part, to conclude, the teachings that Giovanni gives to Catherine and her spiritual daughters – the Gesuate – are analyzed
Exploring embodiment’s role in creativity with live artistic performances
Get PDFThe paper engages with the role of embodiment in perceptions of creativity, by discussing the aims and motivations behind the workshop ‘The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human & Artificial Creativity’, organized by the authors in the context of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC’22. This workshop pioneered a novel format for the Computational Creativity community in which artists are on hand to physically share and discuss their process with the research audience. We describe the structure of the workshop and the methodology followed in designing the audience survey conducted during the first day. Lastly, we argue for the relevance of more in-field studies aimed at testing the role played by the interaction with live artistic processes on evaluations of creativity
Chapter Caterina Colombini, o della cugina sedotta. Una ‘ricostruzione’ della figura di Caterina attraverso i testi
No full textIn this essay the author demonstrates that it is possible to “reconstruct” the figure of Caterina Colombini (1340?-1387) – Giovanni Colombini’s cousin – through a group of texts: the hagiography of Caterina, the letters sent to her by Giovanni Colombini and, finally, Giovanni’s biography written by Feo Belcari. The author divides his text into four parts: the first part analyzes the content of Caterina’s hagiography; the second examines the linguistic form of the hagiographic text; in the third, the author analyzes the latent meaning of the window, a symbolic place where Giovanni and Caterina converse on divine topics; in the last part, to conclude, the teachings that Giovanni gives to Catherine and her spiritual daughters – the Gesuate – are analyzed
Caterina Tarabotti Unveiled
No full textCaterina Tarabotti (1615–1693) never identified herself as a painter in contemporary
documents or claimed authorship of any picture with her signature. She would have
surely joined the ranks of the many anonymous women painters of her time, were
it not for the art critic and historian Marco Boschini (1602–1681). In his La Carta
del Navegar Pitoresco (1660), Boschini was the first to notice Caterina’s talents and
provide information about her life.1
Alluding to her namesake saint and surname,
Boschini infused the painter’s biography with lyric flair. A light coming out of the
Varotari workshop, Caterina was, according to Boschini, a virgin very gifted in
painting. She herself honored art with her achievements, which came effortlessly.
Comparing her to a silver lamp that never burns out, the author, with a sense of
optimism, concluded that Caterina would live forever and her name would bear
eternal light and splendor
Engineering dielectric materials for high-performance organic light emitting transistors (Olets)
No full textFunding Information: The Author thanks the support from Academy of Finland Flagship Program (Grant No.: 320167, PREIN). Author thanks Gianluca Generali and many colleagues in ETC srl and CNR-ISMN (Italy) for valuable discussions on organic light emitting transistors during the years. Funding Information: Acknowledgments: The Author thanks the support from Academy of Finland Flagship Program (Grant No.: 320167, PREIN). Author thanks Gianluca Generali and many colleagues in ETC srl and CNR-ISMN (Italy) for valuable discussions on organic light emitting transistors during the years. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Organic light emitting transistors (OLETs) represent a relatively new technology platform in the field of optoelectronics. An OLET is a device with a two-fold functionality since it behaves as a thin-film transistor and at the same time can generate light under appropriate bias conditions. This Review focuses mainly on one of the building blocks of such device, namely the gate dielectrics, and how it is possible to engineer it to improve device properties and performances. While many findings on gate dielectrics can be easily applied to organic light emitting transistors, we here concentrate on how this layer can be exploited and engineered as an active tool for light manipulation in this novel class of optoelectronic devices.Peer reviewe
Erratum to: Monitoring antigenic protein integrity during glycoconjugate vaccine synthesis using capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, (2016), 408, 22, (6123-6132), 10.1007/s00216-016-9723-5)
No full textUnfortunately the name of Luciano Piubelli was missing as co-author of this contribution. The correct list of authors is: Sara Tengattini, Elena Domínguez-Vega, Luciano Piubelli, Caterina Temporini, Marco Terreni, Govert W. Somse
Climbing the Ladder: How Agents Reach Counterfactual Thinking
Get PDFWe increasingly rely on automated decision-making systems to search for information and make everyday choices. While concerns regarding bias and fairness in machine learning algorithms have high resonance, less addressed is the equally important question of to what extent we are handing our own role of agents over to artificial information-retrieval systems. This paper aims at drawing attention to this issue by considering what agency in decision-making processes amounts to. The main argument that will be proposed is that a system needs to be capable of reasoning in counterfactual terms in order for it to be attributed agency. To reach this step, automated system necessarily need to develop a stable and modular model of their environment
Creative Agents: Rethinking Agency and Creativity in Human and Artificial Systems
Get PDFWhile the notions of creativity and agency have each received considerable attention in the literature on computational systems, the connections between these two concepts have rarely been addressed. In this paper, I contribute to this debate by discussing the results of an online questionnaire aimed at testing the interactions between the attribution of agency and creativity to human and artificial subjects. Findings of the study indicate that the ascription of agentive capabilities to a subject is positively correlated to the level of creativity attributed to the process they perform. This result supports the claim that a better understanding of the steps needed in order to achieve agency can help also shed light on the development of creativity in computational systems. I conclude the paper by suggesting that the technological revolution of the last decades is compelling us to re-think concepts such as authorship, ownership, agency, and creativity that, so far, have been typically attributed to humans only, and to consider how these notions are being transformed in dynamics of interaction between humans and machines
Measuring Creativity: An Account of Natural and Artificial Creativity
Get PDFDespite the recent upsurge of interest for the investigation on the topic of creativity, the question of how to measure creativity is arguably underdiscussed. The aim of this paper is to address this gap, proposing a multidimensional account of creativity which identifies problem-solving, evaluation, and naivety as measurable features that are common to every creative process. The benefits that result from the adoption of this model are twofold: integrating discussions on creativity in various domains and offering the tools to assess creativity across systems of different kinds. By situating creativity within this framework, I aim to contribute to a non-anthropocentric, more comprehensive understanding of the notion and to debates on natural and artificial creativity
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