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cs4fn Magazine+: Issue 22: Creative Computing

Front Cover of cs4fn issue 22

ISSN 1754-3657 (Print)

ISSN 1754-3665 (Online)

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Issue 22 of the cs4fn magazine directs you to the web site for more on various articles. Find all the articles as well as linked extras below.

The articles

What is creativity?

A rainbow swirl of paint Is it something only geniuses do?

Expecting Inspiration

A vortex of music Surprisingly surprise may be important for creativity

Body Art

A wire frame girl jumping Athletes' performances combined with generative art

Storms in Ballet

A ballet dancer leaping in a cloud of chalk Wearable computing combined with generative art

Ant Art

An ant Breeding virtual ants to paint

Algorithm: Explain Yourself

A hooded figure in front of swirling data Algorithms that run our lives need to explain why

Employ the best or Bust

A hooded figure in front of swirling data An example of why trusting an algorithm blindly might go wrong

Tlahcuilo, a visual composer

A design by Tlahcuilo Understanding creativity with a program that creates visual designs

Scéalextric Stories

A female archer A kit for computers creating stories

The Hive at Kew

The Hive at Kew Art combining electronics and zoology

The Fittest Slogans Survive

Big fish eating smaller fish Creating slogans by natural selection

The movie star, the player piano and the torpedo

A woman with mobile phone and cityscape body Hedy Lamarr: her contribution to computing

Manufacturing Magic

A magic jigsaw Using artificial intelligence to create magic tricks

Duplicating Dynamo's domino demonstration

Dominos Magic with dominos and reskinning code

Standup Robots

Dominos Can robots invent and tell there own jokes

I wandered lonely as a mass of dejected vapour

A fluffy cloud Computers as poets

Tattoo You

Dominos Would you let a robot tattoo you?

Solving problems you care about

A red bus headlight School students work with physical computing

AI film director

Lots of android heads An artificial intelligence makes a whole film

Back (page) chat

Lots of android heads Creative quotes from famous people

cs4fn is edited by Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan of Queen Mary University of London, with help from Jo Brodie, Jane Waite and Sue White. This issue has been supported by the EU projects: ConCreTe (611733), Lrn2Cr8 (610859), WHIM (611560), PROSECCO (600653) and COINVENT (611553) funded by the European Commission, Framework Program 7, the ICT theme, and the Future and Emerging Technologies FET program. It has also been supported by the Mayor of London through LSEF project teachinglondoncomputing.org and the CAS Network of Excellence funded by the Department for Education. Autumn 2016.