Using grounded theory to suggest types of framing information for Computational Creativity

In most domains, artefacts and the creativity that went into their production is judged within a context; where a context mayinclude background information on how the creator feels about theirwork, what they think it expresses, how it fits in with other work donewithin their community, and so on. In some cases, such framing in-formation may involve obfuscation in order to add mystery to thework or its creator, which can add to our perception of creativity. Wedescribe a novel method for the analysis of human creativity, usinggrounded theory. We demonstrate the importance of grounded theoryvia an ethnographic study of interviews by John Tusa with contempo-rary artists. By exploring the type of context and background that theartists share, we have developed theories which highlight the impor-tance of areas of framing information, such as motivation, intention,or the processes involved in creating a work. We extend this to con-sider the role of mystery and obfuscation in framing, by consideringwhat artists do not say versus what is explicitly revealed