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6
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7
: Introduction of a
C
p
act
Changes in the evolutionary processes should increase perceptions of
innovation
and
autonomy
.
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5, 7
8
: Introduction of an
F
g
act
Framing its work should increase perceptions of
accountability
and
reflection
.
With all strands brought together, the programmer does nothing at run-time and can
contribute little more at design time. The software exhibits behaviours onto which
we can meaningfully project words like skill, appreciation, innovation, intentionality,
reflection, accountability and learning, which should raise impressions of autonomy,
and make it difficult to project uncreativity onto the software.
Hypothesis 6
The diagrammatic formalismgiven above—or some extension of it—
is sufficient to capture the creative acts performed in building and running any kind of
generative software. Moreover, when this is used alongside audience evaluation of the
artefacts produced, a formal assessment of progress in creative software development
can be achieved.
1.6 Software as Part of a Creative Community
For each domain in which creative software operates, there is a community of
people who have a stake in the notion of whether software working in that domain is
perceived as creative. As described in this section, we have recently started to embed
our software in such a community, for various reasons, including the study of how
people react to it and to the work that it produces. These experiments will form part
of a larger study of how people accept (or not) creative technologies that undertake
activities which used to be the purview of people only.
1.6.1 Accountable Subjectivity
Applying aesthetic judgements and expressing preferences contribute to the percep-
tion of a person or piece of software as being creative. Aesthetics and preferences
allow a creative entity, be it a person or software, to express founded judgement
(even if we regard the judgement as worthless, or subjectively 'wrong') on creative
artefacts, both those created by the entity itself and those created by others. It can also
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