The creative digital media exhibition Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: shared innovative visions between art and technology will be held at the National Academy of Sciences Gallery in Washington D.C., June 3 to August 24, 2007, as part of the program for the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) Creativity and Cognition Conference, to be held June 13 to 15, 2007 in Washington D.C.. The exhibition will be open for almost 3 months and in the summer, allowing ample time for adult, children, and tourist visitors to view and interact with the exhibits.
The intellectual merit in this exhibition lies in the collection and dissemination of digital media projects that illustrate premises that information technology (IT) is forming a powerful alliance with creative practices in the arts and design to establish the exciting new domain of information technology and creative practices (ITCP)set forth in the 2003 National Research Council experts meeting and report Beyond productivity: Information Technology, Innovation and Creativity and the Rockefeller Foundation report New Media Arts | New Funding Models, (Mitchell, Inouye, and Blumenthal, 2003; Jennings, 2000) Creative digital media works to be presented demonstrate the contemporary practice of the merging of the creative practitioner and the engineer - sometimes as a single person and other times as interdisciplinary teams that exhibition participant Donna Cox, Director of Visualization from the National Center of Supercomputing Application, calls renaissance teams. The term renaissance team is descriptive of the CISE CreativeIT focus in supporting research that is done with groups of people from different backgrounds in which the creative synergy is focused on a specific context, problem, or perceived need resulting in new products, models, and areas of research that transcend discipline specific methods of inquiry.
The broader impact of this exhibition is in having the exhibits available in a public space for children and adults to visit and interact with.
