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Musician Ela Minus on having more power over your work
#creativity #artist

Musician Ela Minus on having more power over your work – The Creative Independent
Musician Ela Minus discusses demystifying your industry, questioning yourself and the systems around you, and the importance of teaching others

AI is already transforming Hollywood, as studios and production companies experiment with AI tools and labor groups warn of job losses and other consequences (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digi…

A Comparative Approach to Assessing Linguistic Creativity of Large Language Models and Humans
Anca Dinu, Andra-Maria Florescu, Alina Resceanu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12039

A Comparative Approach to Assessing Linguistic Creativity of Large Language Models and Humans
The following paper introduces a general linguistic creativity test for humans and Large Language Models (LLMs). The test consists of various tasks aimed at assessing their ability to generate new original words and phrases based on word formation processes (derivation and compounding) and on metaphorical language use. We administered the test to 24 humans and to an equal number of LLMs, and we automatically evaluated their answers using OCSAI tool for three criteria: Originality, Elaboration, …

Staying On Track – Detours Galore
#creativity #artist
https://muz4now.com/2025/staying-on-tr

Staying On Track - Detours Galore
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube plans to integrate Google's most advanced AI video generation tool, Veo 3, into YouTube Shorts later this summer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the "AI technology will push the limits of human creativity."

Check out my new blog post: Better Video Audio with Auphonic
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/05/18/better-video-audio-with-auphonic/
Featuring my new video: Spring Cleaning My RecTeq RT-700 Bull Smoker: Tips & Tricks!

Staying On Track – Detours Galore
- Hey, anyone have a map? -
#creativity #distractions
https://muz4n…

Staying On Track - Detours Galore
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

VLMgineer: Vision Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths
George Jiayuan Gao, Tianyu Li, Junyao Shi, Yihan Li, Zizhe Zhang, Nadia Figueroa, Dinesh Jayaraman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12644

VLMgineer: Vision Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths
Tool design and use reflect the ability to understand and manipulate the physical world through creativity, planning, and foresight. As such, these capabilities are often regarded as measurable indicators of intelligence across biological species. While much of today's research on robotic intelligence focuses on generating better controllers, inventing smarter tools offers a complementary form of physical intelligence: shifting the onus of problem-solving onto the tool's design. Given the vast …

At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube plans to integrate Google's most advanced AI video generation tool, Veo 3, into YouTube Shorts later this summer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the "AI technology will push the limits of human creativity."

Adaptive Accompaniment with ReaLchords
Yusong Wu, Tim Cooijmans, Kyle Kastner, Adam Roberts, Ian Simon, Alexander Scarlatos, Chris Donahue, Cassie Tarakajian, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Aaron Courville, Pablo Samuel Castro, Natasha Jaques, Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14723…

Adaptive Accompaniment with ReaLchords
Jamming requires coordination, anticipation, and collaborative creativity between musicians. Current generative models of music produce expressive output but are not able to generate in an \emph{online} manner, meaning simultaneously with other musicians (human or otherwise). We propose ReaLchords, an online generative model for improvising chord accompaniment to user melody. We start with an online model pretrained by maximum likelihood, and use reinforcement learning to finetune the model for…

Check out and share my latest blog post, “Hijacked Minds and Broken Trust”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/06/19/hijacked-minds-and-broken-trust/
(btw I blogged this on my iPad, which I’m trying to use more for media creation and sharing)

Extended Creativity: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Human-AI Creative Relations
Andrea Gaggioli, Sabrina Bartolotta, Andrea Ubaldi, Katusha Gerardini, Eleonora Diletta Sarcinella, Alice Chirico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10249

Extended Creativity: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Human-AI Creative Relations
Artificial Intelligence holds significant potential to enhance human creativity. However, achieving this vision requires a clearer understanding of how such enhancement can be effectively realized. Adopting the perspective of distributed creativity, we identify three primary modes through which AI can contribute to creative processes: Support, where AI acts as a tool; Synergy, where AI and humans collaborate in complementary ways; and Symbiosis, where human and AI cognition become so integrated…

Since halving my #sertraline dose, down to 50mg / day, my brain feels like it’s halved in processing power. Words are more difficult to find, my speech is slower, my thought patterns and creativity are stifled. I’m generally more lethargic. On the plus side I’m less agitated and less prone to angry outbursts. If only I could have all of the good bits and none of the bad. That’s not really h…

Writer and artist Jade Song on redefining perfection
#creativity
https://

Writer and artist Jade Song on redefining perfection – The Creative Independent
Writer and artist Jade Song discusses transitioning between mediums, making money from her art, and marveling at the gift of a residency.

Can creativity and science-related work go together?
In this post I share four take-aways I had about creativity in relation to our work
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​1: Innovation requires creativity.
​2: Creativity is in the little acts.
​3: Constraints can spark creativity.
​4: Experiment with saying “no” to rules.
http…

Creativity in our work ✨

DiffRhythm : Controllable and Flexible Full-Length Song Generation with Preference Optimization
Huakang Chen, Yuepeng Jiang, Guobin Ma, Chunbo Hao, Shuai Wang, Jixun Yao, Ziqian Ning, Meng Meng, Jian Luan, Lei Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12890

DiffRhythm+: Controllable and Flexible Full-Length Song Generation with Preference Optimization
Songs, as a central form of musical art, exemplify the richness of human intelligence and creativity. While recent advances in generative modeling have enabled notable progress in long-form song generation, current systems for full-length song synthesis still face major challenges, including data imbalance, insufficient controllability, and inconsistent musical quality. DiffRhythm, a pioneering diffusion-based model, advanced the field by generating full-length songs with expressive vocals and …

Oh yeah, my copy of the Psygnosis book is being shipped ✌️
#psygnosis

If you identify as part of the #LGBTQIA community and share your creativity on #Pixelfed, I’d love to follow you!

Spam account applications increasing. Easy to tell on our server coz nobody is really allowed unless we already know them, and the spam accounts never even try to mention an existing user.
Must be hard to tell for those with more open instances though.
I'm a creative thinker who enjoys exploring quirky, fun, and offbeat
communities. Boing.world caught my attention for its unique vibe, and I’d love
to join to connect with others who appreciate humor, creativity, and
unconventional conversation in a welcoming and playful environment.

creatives and the experience of experience
#creativity
https://muz4now.com/2011/creatives-and-the-experience-of-experience/

creatives and the experience of experience
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Do Conversational Interfaces Limit Creativity? Exploring Visual Graph Systems for Creative Writing
Abhinav Sood, Maria Teresa Llano, Jon McCormack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08260

Do Conversational Interfaces Limit Creativity? Exploring Visual Graph Systems for Creative Writing
We present a graphical, node-based system through which users can visually chain generative AI models for creative tasks. Research in the area of chaining LLMs has found that while chaining provides transparency, controllability and guardrails to approach certain tasks, chaining with pre-defined LLM steps prevents free exploration. Using cognitive processes from creativity research as a basis, we create a system that addresses the inherent constraints of chat-based AI interactions. Specifically…

Writer Stephanie Wambugu on speaking across generations
#creativity
https://

Writer Stephanie Wambugu on speaking across generations – The Creative Independent
Writer Stephanie Wambugu discusses the conflict of art-world representation, acting as a vessel of human emotion, and resisting trend forecasting.

A Brand Divided: Trademark and the Legacy of Frida Kahlo
https://illusionofmore.com/a-brand-divided-trademark-and-the-legacy-of-frida-kahlo/?utm_source=flip…

A Brand Divided: Trademark and the Legacy of Frida Kahlo - The Illusion of More
The ongoing litigation over the right to control the Frida Kahlo trademarks implies two very different paths for the artist's legacy.

Projects, joy, etc #creativity #writing

Projects, joy, etc
I have a lot of unfinished projects. I’ve had to get used to that– that it is okay to have lots of unfinished projects. My wife is a super creative, prolific artist (I admire the shit o…

Embodied Experience, Emotions, and Creativity
https://ift.tt/5sDMBON
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I read this press release and I think the only thing I found interesting was the bit about improved accessibility...
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/

Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers to foster creativity, innovation, and design
Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.

Writer Andrew Aydin on being persistent with your vision
#creativity #vision

Writer Andrew Aydin on being persistent with your vision – The Creative Independent
Author Andrew Aydin on having faith in your work, manufacturing lightning bolt moments, and why comics are an inherently positive medium.

No, really, my OP scarcely even involved creativity at all.
#TeslaTakedown
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3ltfqdcndf22i

Every once in a while I'm reminded of this very fine example of clerical creativity I witnessed back in '22

Personalizable Long-Context Symbolic Music Infilling with MIDI-RWKV
Christian Zhou-Zheng, Philippe Pasquier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13001 https://

Personalizable Long-Context Symbolic Music Infilling with MIDI-RWKV
Existing work in automatic music generation has primarily focused on end-to-end systems that produce complete compositions or continuations. However, because musical composition is typically an iterative process, such systems make it difficult to engage in the back-and-forth between human and machine that is essential to computer-assisted creativity. In this study, we address the task of personalizable, multi-track, long-context, and controllable symbolic music infilling to enhance the process …

Proud to be acknowledged for my scholarly contributions to Ghibli Studies

Loving the creativity of "The Archive In Between"
#scifi

Draw an Ugly Person An Exploration of Generative AIs Perceptions of Ugliness
Garyoung Kim, Huisung Kwon, Seoju Yun, Yu-Won Youn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12212

Draw an Ugly Person An Exploration of Generative AIs Perceptions of Ugliness
Generative AI does not only replicate human creativity but also reproduces deep-seated cultural biases, making it crucial to critically examine how concepts like ugliness are understood and expressed by these tools. This study investigates how four different generative AI models understand and express ugliness through text and image and explores the biases embedded within these representations. We extracted 13 adjectives associated with ugliness through iterative prompting of a large language m…

Xbox's absent landord execs are only part of a much bigger problem.
Microsoft's continued job slashing reveals a troublesome disdain for creativity, expertise, and the human touch.
https://www.eurogamer.net/xboxs-absent-landord-execs-…

Xbox's absent landord execs are only part of a much bigger problem
Microsoft's continued job slashing at Xbox and beyond reveals a troublesome disdain for the human touch.

What Users Value and Critique: Large-Scale Analysis of User Feedback on AI-Powered Mobile Apps
Vinaik Chhetri, Krishna Upadhyay, A. B. Siddique, Umar Farooq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10785

What Users Value and Critique: Large-Scale Analysis of User Feedback on AI-Powered Mobile Apps
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered features have rapidly proliferated across mobile apps in various domains, including productivity, education, entertainment, and creativity. However, how users perceive, evaluate, and critique these AI features remains largely unexplored, primarily due to the overwhelming volume of user feedback. In this work, we present the first comprehensive, large-scale study of user feedback on AI-powered mobile apps, leveraging a curated dataset of 292 AI-driven apps ac…

Quick Creative Process: The Long and the Short of It
#creativity #CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.c…

Quick Creative Process: The Long and the Short of It
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

This was so much fun - Alex has lots to say about art, programming, creativity, learning, and Haskell, of course!
https://functional.cafe/@HaskellInterlude/114816498470214539

Computers are the cold machinery of industrial despotism, tools of alienation imposed by capitalist power.
Junk no worker ever called for, standing in opposition to the free self-organization and creativity of the laboring masses.
#Capitalism #Computers

I recorded a new episode (#483) of my "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" podcast, which is 20 years old this year in 2025! I titled it, "Creativity, Code, and Compassion: AI Lessons from Middle School and Beyond."
https://www.spee…

Musician Liam Benzvi on taking risks that pay off
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-liam-benzvi-on-taking-risks-that-pay-off/?utm_…

Musician Liam Benzvi on taking risks that pay off – The Creative Independent
Musician Liam Benzvi discusses success, instant gratification, and being in pursuit of what you love.

Mother-daughter duo transforms beach waste into stunning eco-friendly home, inspiring sustainable living and creativity. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Mother-daughter duo turn beach waste into incredible seven-room home: 'So creative and so beautiful'
Brazilian builders Edna and Maria Gabrielly Dantas turned 8,000 discarded bottles from Itamaraca's beaches into the Salt House.

For those who never had a Mac who are put off by / bemused by / disdainful of all the praise for Bill Atkinson’s work:
Don’t think of this as admiration for Apple and Apple history. Think of it as admiration for a more humane view of computing:
one where software’s job is to bring delight and foster creativity,
one where our devices are not hermetically sealed gifts from the tech gods with which we make a Faustian bargain, but rather a bucket of art supplies for us to play with, reshape, make our own. https://mastodon.social/@arroz/114643547519909731

"Cockwomble" is an interesting example of creativity and humour in British slang, combining elements of indecency and whimsy to produce a memorable and effective insult.

Kompany really has Bayern playing well, much better than I expected if I’m honest. They’re giving PSG all they can handle and could be ahead, if not for a correctly judged offside decision.
Entertaining match so far and probably even. I really enjoy watching Kvaratshkelia play. Such pace and creativity, combined with the willingness to track back. Rare breed. He just about scored on a blisteringly direct attack. Neuer made a couple of fine saves.

... in case you care:
#solarpunk
#creativity
https://www.solarpunkconference.com/

Solarpunk Conference

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
#inspiration #creativity
https://

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12089 has been replaced.
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How Compositional Generalization and Creativity Improve as Diffusion Models are Trained
Natural data is often organized as a hierarchical composition of features. How many samples do generative models need in order to learn the composition rules, so as to produce a combinatorially large number of novel data? What signal in the data is exploited to learn those rules? We investigate these questions in the context of diffusion models both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, we consider a simple probabilistic context-free grammar - a tree-like graphical model used to represe…

Flowing Loops
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Flowing Loops | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Flowing Loops Host: Dan Koop Category: Arts Sub-Category: Crafts & Creativity, Local News & Stories, Places & Travel First Episode: 2024 Dan Koop and six artists have been walking and talking…

FWIW, I’ve yet to see any indication that the use of LLMs (pseudo-AI) has improved the quality of phishing as measured by how much gets past technical defenses.
LLMs are a great leveler. They produce median texts to fit their prompts. They cannot produce anything that requires creativity. They cannot produce high-quality fakes because they cannot produce high-quality anything. They are a play on the fact that 50% of people are at or below median cognitive capacity.

#ScribesAndMakers May 30 - Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
Spark! Our teacher held poetry Fridays, he invited authors to read for us, he allowed creativity. The subjects mingled a bit, but I learned a lot more when I had fun, I didn't even notice that we were being taught history or whatever at the same time.

Less is More: some Computational Principles based on Parcimony, and Limitations of Natural Intelligence
Laura Cohen, Xavier Hinaut, Lilyana Petrova, Alexandre Pitti, Syd Reynal, Ichiro Tsuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07060

Less is More: some Computational Principles based on Parcimony, and Limitations of Natural Intelligence
Natural intelligence (NI) consistently achieves more with less. Infants learn language, develop abstract concepts, and acquire sensorimotor skills from sparse data, all within tight neural and energy limits. In contrast, today's AI relies on virtually unlimited computational power, energy, and data to reach high performance. This paper argues that constraints in NI are paradoxically catalysts for efficiency, adaptability, and creativity. We first show how limited neural bandwidth promotes conci…

Pluri-perspectivism in Human-robot Co-creativity with Older Adults
Marianne Bossema, Rob Saunders, Aske Plaat, Somaya Ben Allouch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07550

Pluri-perspectivism in Human-robot Co-creativity with Older Adults
This position paper explores pluriperspectivism as a core element of human creative experience and its relevance to humanrobot cocreativity We propose a layered fivedimensional model to guide the design of cocreative behaviors and the analysis of interaction dynamics This model is based on literature and results from an interview study we conducted with 10 visual artists and 8 arts educators examining how pluriperspectivism supports creative practice The findings of this study provide insight i…

Coding agents have crossed a chasm
https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2025-06-14-coding-agents-cross-a-chasm/

Musician Alysha Brilla on trusting yourself as the first step
#creativity #musician

Musician Alysha Brilla on trusting yourself as the first step – The Creative Independent
Musician Alysha Brilla discusses listening deeply, remembering she's not alone, and bringing it back to nature.

Making room to create
#creativity #artist
https://muz4now.com/2014/making-room-t

Making room to create
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Fighting Carpal Tunnel One Key at a Time
Juggling fireworks sales and dealing with carpal tunnel syndrome. I'm also exploring ergonomic keyboards and announcing a new music post series on Substack. Overall, just trying to balance work, health, and creativity!
https://www.bobmuellerwrit…

Fighting Carpal Tunnel One Key at a Time – Bob Mueller
This week: Talking about keyboard solutions for carpal tunnel, and announcing a new location for some musical posts.

In observing a tide pool, we can learn that the right kind of structure, not pure limitless freedom, is what truly enables creativity to thrive. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/tide-pool-thinking

Tide Pool Thinking
How Structure Makes Space for Imagination to Breathe

Just saw the release of the Nothing phone (3) and headphone (1). A lot of people hated on it? Was two great designs that I can't wait to invest in. Wish people were more open to creativity in the tech space.
#Nothing #NothingPhone

Feeling Guilty Being a c(ai)borg: Navigating the Tensions Between Guilt and Empowerment in AI Use
Konstantin Aal, Tanja Aal, Vasil Navumau, David Unbehaun, Claudia M\"uller, Volker Wulf, Sarah R\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00094

Feeling Guilty Being a c(ai)borg: Navigating the Tensions Between Guilt and Empowerment in AI Use
This paper explores the emotional, ethical and practical dimensions of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into personal and professional workflows, focusing on the concept of feeling guilty as a 'c(ai)borg' - a human augmented by AI. Inspired by Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, the study explores how AI challenges traditional notions of creativity, originality and intellectual labour. Using an autoethnographic approach, the authors reflect on their year-long experiences with AI tools, re…

Tracking The Toughest of All – Singing Vulnerability
- #creativity and #vulnerability -
#recording #singing

SD-Acc: Accelerating Stable Diffusion through Phase-aware Sampling and Hardware Co-Optimizations
Zhican Wang, Guanghui He, Hongxiang Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01309

SD-Acc: Accelerating Stable Diffusion through Phase-aware Sampling and Hardware Co-Optimizations
The emergence of diffusion models has significantly advanced generative AI, improving the quality, realism, and creativity of image and video generation. Among them, Stable Diffusion (StableDiff) stands out as a key model for text-to-image generation and a foundation for next-generation multi-modal algorithms. However, its high computational and memory demands hinder inference speed and energy efficiency. To address these challenges, we identify three core issues: (1) intensive and often redund…

Tracking The Toughest of All – Singing Vulnerability
- #creativity and #vulnerability -
#recording #singing

Tracking The Toughest of All - Singing Vulnerability
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Role of Humour in Software Engineering -- A Literature Review and Preliminary Taxonomy
Dulaji Hidellaarachchi, John Grundy, Rashina Hoda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03527

The Role of Humour in Software Engineering -- A Literature Review and Preliminary Taxonomy
Humour has long been recognized as a key factor in enhancing creativity, group effectiveness, and employee well-being across various domains. However, its occurrence and impact within software engineering (SE) teams remains under-explored. This paper introduces a comprehensive, literature review-based taxonomy exploring the characterisation and use of humour in SE teams, with the goal of boosting productivity, improving communication, and fostering a positive work environment while emphasising …

Singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson on the beauty of ambiguity
#creativity #SingerSongwriter

Singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson on the beauty of ambiguity – The Creative Independent
Musician Laura Stevenson discusses the creative benefits of music therapy, leaving room for interpretation in songwriting, and balancing sincerity with humor.

David Cope, a composer and algorithmic composition pioneer who created a program in the 1980s to write music in the style of Bach and others, died at age 83 (Miguel Salazar/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/david-cope-dead-ai…

David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07879 has been replaced.
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Towards Sustainable Creativity Support: An Exploratory Study on Prompt Based Image Generation
Creativity is a valuable human skill that has long been augmented through both analog and digital tools. Recent progress in generative AI, such as image generation, provides a disruptive technological solution to supporting human creativity further and helping humans generate solutions faster. While AI image generators can help to rapidly visualize ideas based on user prompts, the use of such AI systems has also been critiqued due to their considerable energy usage. In this paper, we report on …

Visual artist Brian Jungen on embracing the unknown
#creativity #artist

Visual artist Brian Jungen on embracing the unknown – The Creative Independent
Visual artist Brian Jungen discusses how catastrophe sharpens focus, finding the perfect idea, and the artistic benefits of limitation

doing creativity for praise is ego suicide
#creativity #motivation
https://muz4now.com/2016/creati…

doing creativity for praise is ego suicide
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

#ScribesAndMakers May 30 - Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
Spark! Our teacher held poetry Fridays, he invited authors to read for us, he allowed creativity. The subjects mingled a bit, but I learned a lot more when I had fun, I didn't even notice that we were being taught history or whatever at the same time.

A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
Saloni Singh, Koen Hndriks, Drik Heylen, Kim Baraka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21333 https://

A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
The co creativity community is making significant progress in developing more sophisticated and tailored systems to support and enhance human creativity. Design considerations from prior work can serve as a valuable and efficient foundation for future systems. To support this effort, we conducted a systematic literature review of 62 papers on co-creative systems. These papers cover a diverse range of applications, including visual arts, design, and writing, where the AI acts not just as a tool …

Check out my new blog post: Zoom AI Meeting Summary
#MediaLit

Entropy measures as indicators of connectivity paths in the human brain
Ania Mesa-Rodr\'iguez, Ernesto Estevez-Rams, Holger Kantz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04442

Entropy measures as indicators of connectivity paths in the human brain
How does the information flow between different brain regions during various stimuli? This is the question we aim to address by studying complex cognitive paradigms in terms of Information Theory. To assess creativity and the emergence of patterns from a Shannon perspective, we applied a range of tools, including Entropy Density, Effective Measure Complexity, and the Lempel-Ziv distance. These entropic tools enable the detection of both linear and non-linear dynamics without relying on pre-esta…

Why AI Can’t Make Art (and Probably Never Will) https://lateralaction.com/articles/ai-cant-make-art/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/art,…

Why AI Can’t Make Art (and Probably Never Will)
There’s a lot of noise about AI and creativity right now.

Visual artist Nicole Wittenberg on resisting the pressure of productivity culture
#creativity #artist

Visual artist Nicole Wittenberg on resisting the pressure of productivity culture – The Creative Independent
Visual artist Nicole Wittenberg discusses the difference between obsession and compulsion, the importance of time in nature, and learning to understand what art can mean.

Understanding Underrepresented Groups in Open Source Software
Reydne Santos, Rafa Prado, Ana Paula de Holanda Silva, Kiev Gama, Fernando Castor, Ronnie de Souza Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00142

Understanding Underrepresented Groups in Open Source Software
Context: Diversity can impact team communication, productivity, cohesiveness, and creativity. Analyzing the existing knowledge about diversity in open source software (OSS) projects can provide directions for future research and raise awareness about barriers and biases against underrepresented groups in OSS. Objective: This study aims to analyze the knowledge about minority groups in OSS projects. We investigated which groups were studied in the OSS literature, the study methods used, their im…

Musician Helado Negro on noticing what surrounds you
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-helado-negro-on-noticing-what-surrounds-…

Musician Helado Negro on noticing what surrounds you – The Creative Independent
Musician Helado Negro discusses identifying as a worker, rehearsing extra long, and controlling what factors you can.

new blog post: Vibe Coding for Flickr CC 4.0 Attribution
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/07/05/vibe-coding-for-flickr-cc-4-0-attribution/
s/o @…

Exploring Classical Piano Performance Generation with Expressive Music Variational AutoEncoder
Jing Luo, Xinyu Yang, Jie Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01582

Exploring Classical Piano Performance Generation with Expressive Music Variational AutoEncoder
The creativity of classical music arises not only from composers who craft the musical sheets but also from performers who interpret the static notations with expressive nuances. This paper addresses the challenge of generating classical piano performances from scratch, aiming to emulate the dual roles of composer and pianist in the creative process. We introduce the Expressive Compound Word (ECP) representation, which effectively captures both the metrical structure and expressive nuances of c…

Reflecting Human Values in XAI: Emotional and Reflective Benefits in Creativity Support Tools
Samuel Rhys Cox, Helena B{\o}jer Djern{\ae}s, Niels van Berkel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17116

Reflecting Human Values in XAI: Emotional and Reflective Benefits in Creativity Support Tools
In this workshop paper, we discuss the potential for measures of user-centric benefits (such as emotional well-being) that could be explored when evaluating explainable AI (XAI) systems within the arts. As a background to this, we draw from our recent review of creativity support tool (CST) evaluations, that found a paucity of studies evaluating CSTs for user-centric measures that benefit the user themselves. Specifically, we discuss measures of: (1) developing intrinsic abilities, (2) emotiona…

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
- When I broke my ankle last year, I had no idea how much it would affect me -
#creativity #inspiration

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Anya Osborne, Sabrina Fielder, Lee Taber, Tara Lamb, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Katherine Isbister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21780

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many professional entities shifted toward remote collaboration and video conferencing (VC) tools. Social virtual reality (VR) platforms present an alternative to VC for meetings and collaborative activities. Well-crafted social VR environments could enhance feelings of co-presence and togetherness at meetings, helping reduce the need for carbon-intensive travel to face-to-face meetings. This research contributes to creating meeting tools in VR by exploring the effe…

What’s Really Holding You Back from Making Art? (Hint: It’s Not Talent)
https://www.artiststrong.com/whats-holding-you-back-from-your-art/?utm_source=flipboard&am…

What’s Really Holding You Back from Making Art? (Hint: It’s Not Talent)
What’s Really Holding You Back from Making Art? (It’s Not Talent) Let’s be honest: making art can feel really hard sometimes. And if you’ve been avoiding your creative practice, it’s easy to jump t…

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives
https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives – The Creative Independent
Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert discusses growing up in the Seattle arts scene, dealing with music industry hierarchy, and imagining the ideal conditions for creativity.

Musician Michael Gira (Swans) on letting the work speak through you
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-m…

Musician Michael Gira (Swans) on letting the work speak through you – The Creative Independent
Musician Michael Gira discusses doing the work with total commitment, accepting the unknown and figuring it out along the way

new blog post: RSS Converter for Mastofeed
#Mastodon

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
Roi Alfassi, Angelora Cooper, Zoe Mitchell, Mary Calabro, Orit Shaer, Osnat Mokryn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18706

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
The integration of Generative AI (GenAI) into creative communities, like fanfiction, is reshaping how stories are created, shared, and valued. This study investigates the perceptions of 157 active fanfiction members, both readers and writers, regarding AI-generated content in fanfiction. Our research explores the impact of GenAI on community dynamics, examining how AI affects the participatory and collaborative nature of these spaces. The findings reveal responses ranging from cautious acceptan…

don't get ahead of yourself
#creativity #artist
https://muz4now.com/2016/dont-get-ahea

don't get ahead of yourself
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

LLM-enhanced Interactions in Human-Robot Collaborative Drawing with Older Adults
Marianne Bossema, Somaya Ben Allouch, Aske Plaat, Rob Saunders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18711

LLM-enhanced Interactions in Human-Robot Collaborative Drawing with Older Adults
The goal of this study is to identify factors that support and enhance older adults' creative experiences in human-robot co-creativity. Because the research into the use of robots for creativity support with older adults remains underexplored, we carried out an exploratory case study. We took a participatory approach and collaborated with professional art educators to design a course Drawing with Robots for adults aged 65 and over. The course featured human-human and human-robot drawing activit…

Check out my new health related blog post: “Inspired by George Couros”
#health

You Don’t Have to Sell Your Art to Call Yourself an Artist
https://www.artiststrong.com/you-dont-have-to-sell-your-art-to-call-yourself-an-ar…

You Don’t Have to Sell Your Art to Call Yourself an Artist
One of the most commonly search phrases when you look at Google or Pinterest is: How To Sell Art How, How To Sell Art work How To Sell Art on Etsy How to sell Art on Instagram? How to sell art onli…

Author Michelle Tea on making art your main focus (and not taking your day job too seriously)
https://thecreativeindependent.…

Author Michelle Tea on making art your main focus (and not taking your day job too seriously) – The Creative Independent
Author and publisher Michelle Tea discusses surviving as an artist, building community, and staying true to your voice

Inspired by the ever-creative, innovative and connected guru / Yoda of #edtech, @… Alan Levine, I started by own Pinboard collection of bookmarks:
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The Case of the Extra Beat
#creativity #inspiration
https://muz4now.com/2015/the-case-of-t

The Case of the Extra Beat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Goin' Back - On the trickiness of reviewing one's own art
#artist #creativity
https://muz4now.c…

Goin' Back - On the trickiness of reviewing one's own art
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Waves V16 Is Here
#MusicTech #MusicianTips

Waves V16 Is Here - Latest version of the plugins is refined for improved workflow and creativity
Latest version of the plugins is refined for improved workflow and creativity

Waves V16 Is Here https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/24/waves-v16-is-with-us/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/(Mostly Music) Tech&amp…

Waves V16 Is Here - Latest version of the plugins is refined for improved workflow and creativity
Latest version of the plugins is refined for improved workflow and creativity

Singer-songwriter Nemahsis on the importance of being uncompromising
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/singer…

Singer-songwriter Nemahsis on the importance of being uncompromising – The Creative Independent
Singer-songwriter Nemahsis discusses breaking through despite hardships, freedom of expression, and the power of building a genuine community online

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-demian-licht-on-learning-to…

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow – The Creative Independent
Musician Demian Licht discusses the feminine energy she's inspired by, teaching Ableton as a woman in Latin America, and identifying as an outsider in the music scene.

Of Dead Computers and Really Living
#BeBetter #creativity
https://muz4now.com/2015/of-dead-compu…

Of Dead Computers and Really Living
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Apple Music adds a Musicians hub, Replay, Apple Radio specials
https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025/06/apple-music-adds-a-musicians-hub.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_con…

Apple Music adds a Musicians hub, Replay, Apple Radio specials
Apple Music's new Musicians hub offers unique spaces for artists. Discover features designed for creativity and collaboration.