Revisiting creative behaviour as an epistemic process: lessons from 12 computational artists & designers

Martin Tricaud (1) , Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (1)

1 EX-SITU - Extreme Situated Interaction - LISN

In this article, we investigate creative behavior among computational artists and designers, in order to improve our understanding of the interaction mechanisms that they rely on to identify and appropriate the mediating properties of code and computational representations. We conducted an observational study with 12 computational artists and designers working with visual media. The results lead us to analyze creative behavior as an epistemic process, whereby agents generate knowledge about their medium through epistemic actions, and produce their medium by externalizing this knowledge into epistemic artifacts. We discuss the implications of these findings for the design and evaluation of interactive systems for creativity.

Mots clés: creative behaviour; instrumental interaction; epistemic action; epistemic artifact; procedural computer graphics; digital arts; creative coding; generative design

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Martin Tricaud, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon. Revisiting creative behaviour as an epistemic process: lessons from 12 computational artists & designers. OzCHI '23: Proceedings of the 35th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Dec 2023, Wellington, New Zealand. ⟨10.1145/3638380⟩. ⟨hal-04415624⟩