London E1 4NS
UK
Professor Geraint Wiggins, Professor of Computational Creativity, will be holding his Inaugural Lecture on Wednesday 16th March 2016 at 6.30pm.
The lecture will be followed by a free drinks reception in The SCR, Queens’ Building.
Creativity is often proposed as a feature of humanity that sets us apart from other species. In this lecture, I will deconstruct the concept of creativity, suggesting that the view we have inherited from the Romantics is unhelpfully narrow. Working from a more practical definition, I will propose a view of creativity as a property of advanced cognition, including, but not limited to, humans, that can in principle be implemented as a computer program.
The lecture will end with a recorded performance of my piece “from spiralling ecstatically this”, a setting* of E. E. Cummings’ poem, itself concerned with creation.
* “from spiralling ecstatically this” is performed by kind permission of the E. E. Cummings Trust.