{"id":6910,"date":"2025-02-10T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2025\/?page_id=6910"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:09:40","slug":"keynotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/keynotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n\n.wp-site-blocks{\n    padding-left: 0px;\n    padding-right: 0px;\n    position: relative;\n    overflow: hidden;\n}\n\n.wp-container-6 > *{\n    display: none;\n}\n\n.wp-container-7 > :where(:not(.alignleft):not(.alignright)){\n    max-width: 100vw !important;\n}\n\n.wp-container-7{\n    display: flex !important;\n    align-items: center !important;\n    flex-direction: column;\n    max-width: 100% !important;\n    margin-block-start:0px;\n}\n.wp-container-9{\n    width: 100%;\n}\n.wp-container-4{\npadding-bottom: 0px !important;\n}\n.wp-block-spacer{\ndisplay:none;\n}\n.wp-site-blocks > * + *, .wp-container-7 > * + *{\nmargin-top:0px;\n}\n.wp-block-image{\npadding: 0 20px !important;\n}\n\n.wp-container-12{\ndisplay:none;\n}\n\n\n\n.content{\n    background: #000000b8; \n    margin-left: 0px !important; \n    margin-right: 0px !important;\n    padding: 50px 0 50px 0;\nwidth: 100%;\nmin-width:350px;\ndisplay: flex;\njustify-content: center;\nflex-direction: column;\n\n}\n\n.text{\n    max-width: 650px;\n    margin: auto 20px auto 20px !important;\nwidth:100%;\n}\n\n\n.wp-site-blocks::before{\n    content: '';\n    position: fixed;\nbackground:#000;\n    z-index: -1;\nwidth:100%;\nheight:300%;\n}\n\n\n.vi {\n    position: fixed;\n    width: auto;\n    height:100vh;\n    object-fit: cover;\nz-index:-1;\ntop:0px;\n}\n\n\n\nbody{\n    color: #fff;\n    font-family: Helvetica;\nfont-size: 18px;\n}\n\na{\n    color: #fff;\nword-wrap: break-word !important;\n    word-break: normal !important;\n}\n\nh4,h3{\n    font-family: Helvetica;\n}\n\nh1{\ncolor:#F0FEFF;\ntext-shadow: 0px 0px 8px #F0FEFF;\nfont-family: Helvetica;\nfont-weight: 400;\nfont-size: 8em !imprtant;\npadding: 20px 0 120px 0 !important;\n}\n\n.h3-title{\ncolor:#F0FEFF;\ntext-shadow: 0px 0px 9px #F0FEFF7d;\nfont-family: Helvetica;\nfont-weight: 400;\nfont-size: 72px;\nbackground: \n    url('https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dots.png') no-repeat left center \/ auto 100%, \n    url('https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dots.png') no-repeat right center \/ auto 100%;\npadding: 0 15px;\nmargin: 1em 0;\n}\n\n.highlight{\n    color:#DFFF03;\n}\n\n\n@media screen and (max-width: 480px) {\n    \n    body {\n        font-size: 16px; \n    }\n    .h3-title{\n        font-size: 36px;\n    }\n    h1{\n        padding: 20px 0 40px 0 !important;\n    }\n    .content{\n        padding:30px 0 30px 0;\n    }\n.vi {\n \n    height: 120vh;\n   \n}\n}\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Top-graphics-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Top-graphics-2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Top-graphics-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Top-graphics-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Top-graphics-2-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Top-graphics-2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<video autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" playsinline=\"\" class=\"vi\">\n        <source src=\"https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FOREST.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\" poster=\"https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest.jpg\">\n      <\/video>\n\n\n\n<h1>KEYNOTES<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"speaker\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large speakerimg\" width=\"40%\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Keynote_Anna-1024x1024-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6919\" width=\"400px\"><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"info\">\n<p class=\"title\">Anna Abraham<\/p>\n<p>\nAnna Abraham is the E. Paul Torrance Professor and Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity at the University of Georgia (UGA), USA. She leads the Creativity and Imagination Lab at UGA where she also serves as a Neuroscience faculty member of the Integrated Life Sciences Program (ILS), a faculty fellow at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI), and a faculty affiliate of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research (OIBR).\n<br>\nDr. Abraham investigates the psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying creativity and other aspects of the human imagination, including the reality-fiction distinction, mental time travel, social and self-referential cognition, aesthetic experience, and mental state reasoning.\n<!--Her educational and professional training has been within the disciplines of psychology and neuroscience, and she has worked across a diverse range of academic departments and institutions the world over, all of which have informed her cross-cultural and multidisciplinary focus. -->She is the Founding Editor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/publications\/elements\/elements-in-creativity-and-imagination\">Cambridge Elements in Creativity and Imagination<\/a> <!-- - an academic short book series. She has penned numerous publications including the 2018 book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neuroscience-Creativity-Cambridge-Fundamentals-Psychology\/dp\/1316629619\">The Neuroscience of Creativity<\/a> (Cambridge University Press), and 2020 edited volume, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cambridge-Handbook-Imagination-Handbooks-Psychology\/dp\/1108453422\">The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination<\/a>-->. Her latest book is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Creative-Brain-Myths-Truths\/dp\/0262548003\/\">The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths<\/a> (2024, MIT Press).\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large speakerimg\" width=\"40%\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Keynote_Kaffe-1024x1024_2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6919\" width=\"400px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"info\">\n<p class=\"title\">Kaffe Matthews<\/p>\n<p>\nKaffe Matthews is a pioneering music maker who works live with space, data, things, and place to make new electroacoustic composition. Her past has taken her through things such as midi violin, theremin, star maps, NASA scientists, sharks, children, solo walks and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to create a massive body of works<!-- for sites such as concert halls, city streets, basement clubs, radio, galleries, deserts, living rooms, and the human body-->. The physical experience of music is also key to her approach so she also invents unique interfaces such as the sonic armchair, the sonic bed and a range of sonic bikes which offer new paths into composition for makers, and ways in to listening for wide ranging audiences worldwide.\n<br>\n<!--Today she is focused on dangerous unknowns improvising with space, audience and a new modular instrument, the Ripley. A noise filter system designed through the 12 Gates of alchemical discoveries made by the 15th century alchemist George Ripley, backfeeding and live sampling throughout.\n<br>\nConcerned with community and the environment, Kaffe has also established the collectives \u2018Music for Bodies\u2019(2006) and \u2018The Bicrophonic Research Institute\u2019(2014) where ideas and techniques grow within a pool of coders and artists using shared and open source approaches, publishing all outcomes online.\n<br>-->\nKaffe has been performing, collaborating and teaching worldwide since 1992, receiving awards such as the NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship; Honorary Professor of Music, Shanghai Music Conservatory; a Scottish BAFTA with Mandy McIntosh &amp; Zeena Parkins; Distinction Prix Ars Electronica Sonic Bed_London and Honorary mention for cd c\u00e9cile. 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