Teaching Computational Creativity

Michael Filimowicz is senior lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. He is director of the Cinesonika festival and academic conference, and founder of 4th Foundation, a university spinout doing curriculum development in K-12 coding and technology skills. He has published across disciplines in journals such as Organised Sound, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Leonardo, Empirical Musicology Review, and Semiotica. His art has been exhibited internationally at venues such as SIGGRAPH, Re-New, Design Shanghai, ARTECH, Les Instants Video, IDEAS, Kinsey Institute, and Art Currents, and published in monographs such as Reframing Photography (2010) and Infinite Instances (2011). His portfolio site is http://filimowi.cz. Veronika Tzankova is a PhD candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, having previously gained her MA from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at the same institution. Her research is in the area of interactive technologies within contexts of social appropriation and democratic inclusiveness. Her work has been published in journals and books, and her research has also been presented at various conferences such as the Association of Internet Researchers and the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) Crossroads.