We contribute toward a critical practice of creative computing by making explicit existing glasses HCI researchers have used to conceptualize creative work.

By linking theory to practice, this work contributes toward articulating the “goals” [112] and roles for computing in creative work.

we discuss strategies for integrating more feminist values into creativity-oriented HCI research

we sketch a set of provocations about the value-laden questions implicated by each epistemic position. This serves as a starting point for reasoning about the trade-offs and politics in creative computing and research.