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Creativity and Cognition archive
Proceeding of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition table of contents

Berkeley, California, USA

SESSION: Craft & art I table of contents

Pages 97-106

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-865-0

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Frieder Nake

University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Early algorithmic art (also called computer art or digital art) is chosen as a case to differentiate three aspects of creative behavior: trivial, personal, and historic creativity. Extending a remark by Marcel Duchamp on the role of the spectator in fully completing a work of art, one - perhaps controversial - position in the history of art of the 20th century claims that the artist only generates the material work, whereas society transforms the work into an accepted work of art. This position leads to differentiation in the concept of creativity. The paper discusses different shades of creativity. It is of interest both to digital art, and to creativity research.

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