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Creativity & Cognition Conferences Archive 

Art and Technology in Balance 

CCS is a interdisciplinary research organisation comprising artists, technologists, curators, sociologists and everything inbetween.

This unique research initiative developed from a series of conference lectures by Professor Ernest A. Edmonds and Dr. Linda Candy under the similar title Creativity and Cognition from as early as the 1960s. A regular headliner from 1993 onwards on the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGCHI calendar, the initial concept of mapping and evaluating the links between creativity and cognition developed into an artist-in-residency program (COSTART) at Loughborough University (UK) from 1996.  Presently housed in University of Technology, Sydney since 2002, the Creativity and Cognition Studios is based in the Faculty of IT , but encompassses people from the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes partners and associates from leading research organisations around the world.

Due to the high level of innovative sophistication in both academic and industry endeavours, the members of CCS are happy to list multiple contracts with the Australasian CRC for Interactive Design (ACID).  This relationship has allowed opportunities to work with other research and development institutions such as the HITLab in New Zealand, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne, and the Powerhouse Museum (PHM) in Sydney, where CCS shows interactive artworks in beta_space. CCS is host of the biannual Creativity and Cognition Conference and a series of symposia.