SGER: Exhibition: Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary at the National Academy of Sciences to be held June 3, 2007-August 24, 2007 in Washington, DC.

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The creative digital media exhibition Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary:shared innovative visions between art and technology will be held at the NationalAcademy of Sciences Gallery in Washington D.C., June 3 to August 24, 2007, as part ofthe program for the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) Creativity and CognitionConference, to be held June 13 to 15, 2007 in Washington D.C.. The exhibition will beopen 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 digitalmedia projects that illustrate premises that information technology (IT) is forming apowerful alliance with creative practices in the arts and design to establish the excitingnew domain of information technology and creative practices (ITCP)setforth in the 2003 National Research Council experts meeting and report Beyondproductivity: Information Technology, Innovation and Creativity and the RockefellerFoundation report New Media Arts | New Funding Models, (Mitchell, Inouye, andBlumenthal, 2003; Jennings, 2000) Creative digital media works to be presenteddemonstrate the contemporary practice of the merging of the creative practitioner andthe engineer - sometimes as a single person and other times as interdisciplinary teamsthat exhibition participant Donna Cox, Director of Visualization from the National Centerof Supercomputing Application, calls renaissance teams. The term renaissance team isdescriptive of the CISE CreativeIT focus in supporting research that is done with groupsof people from different backgrounds in which the creative synergy is focused on aspecific context, problem, or perceived need resulting in new products, models, andareas of research that transcend discipline specific methods of inquiry.The broader impact of this exhibition is in having the exhibits available in a public spacefor children and adults to visit and interact with.