Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
2: Creativity in a Nutshell
3: Are Autodidacts Creative?
4: Crafts, Perception, and the Possibilities of the Body
5: Creativity and Conceptual Art
6: Personal Signatures in Art
7: What is Generative Art?
8: Agents and Creativity
9: Autonomy, Integrity, and Computer Art
10: Authenticity and Computer Art
11: Aesthetics and Interactive Art
12: Is Metabolism Necessary?
Index

About the Author

Margaret A. Boden is Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex. She is a Fellow (and past Vice-President) of the British Academy, and of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (and its British and European equivalents), and a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2002 she was awarded an OBE for services to Cognitive Science, and she holds a Cambridge ScD as well as honorary doctorates from Bristol, Sussex, and the Open
University. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard, her earlier degrees were in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition brimming with interesting ideas and fascinating examples, presented in a clear, lively, and engaging fashion. Boden's book is essential reading for anyone interested in creativity in art or in computer art, and it deserves to be widely read and admired.
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British Journal of Aesthetics