Creative Visualization and Visualizing Creativity: An investigation of the relationship between creativity and visualization

Abstract

The paper presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between creativity and visualization. It explores the potential for new visualization technologies to represent, communicate or interactively engage with theories of creativity to extend our understanding of creativity and its application across differing domains.

By giving an overview on the definitions of creativity, it demonstrates that the understanding of creativity is a continuous process of interpretation. Such an understanding involves many personal and environmental elements such as social and cultural context - culture as well as different perspectives on the relationship between "old" and "new" technologies in the form of case studies raise questions on how to understand the "machine's creativity" and what is the role of the "machine's creator", or in other words, the potential of the machine to participate as a non-human agent in creative practice to new knowledge of creativity. 

The analysis indicated that there is a gap in a creative technology-based approach to creativity. The result of the study also suggests some future directions for research in this emerging interdisciplinary field.