COLLECTIVE CREATIVITY WORKSHOP: Contributions from AI & art, cultural evolution, and cognitive science

OverviewThis workshop will be an in-person, interdisciplinary event on "Collective Creativity", organized by Mason Youngblood (IACS), Katie Mudd (IACS), Margaret Schedel (Music), Owen Rambow (Linguistics), Jordan Kodner (Linguistics), and Brooke Belisle (Art) at Stony Brook University from 23-25 April 2025. This workshop will bring together experts from cognitive science, cultural evolution, and related fields, alongside practicing artists and humanities scholars, to explore the mechanisms driving creativity in language, music, and other domains.

Our aim is to foster meaningful discussions and generate new research ideas that address the "big questions" in creativity science, focusing especially on the social and cognitive factors that shape innovation. The three-day event will be held across several venues on campus, including the Institute for Advanced Computational Science, the Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, and the Humanities Institute. The format will include private research talks and brainstorm sessions, as well as public keynotes and panel discussions, facilitating interdisciplinary exchange. The participants will include a diverse group of early-career researchers and senior scholars who approach research on creativity from a variety of different perspectives: cognitive science, cultural evolution, linguistics, digital humanities, philosophy, and computational neuroscience. Those attending the workshop will also have the opportunity to contribute to a collaborative review paper on the state of scientific research in creativity, to be published in a major outlet like NeurIPS or Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Event website: https://masonyoungblood.github.io/collective_creativity.html