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Like  Malta’s architectural and artistic heritage, where diverse cultural elements combine to create something uniquely beautiful,  AI systems are now collaborating with human creators to generate ever-shifting narrative possibilities and story worlds. This situation reminded us of Janet Murray’s keynote at ICIDS 2018 in Dublin, where she discussed her kaleidoscopic view on IDN research. She described IDNs as environments that support the analysis of the same event in multiple contexts and at the same time foster the imagination of multiple variants of the same scenario. This has inspired the main theme of this year’s conference: Kaleidoscopic Machines.

The aim of this year’s conference is rather programmatic: Applying retelling we look at the past to understand what worked, why or why not; we offer new works to describe the current thinking; and we present critical and thought-provoking visionary contemplations to look ahead. Through discussion of the resulting views, we hope to gain an understanding of what we aim to reach out for in the years to come — memory machines, creative post-coding environments that are rooted in core human stories, non-human generated multisensorial environments, narratives driven by brain-computer interfaces, kaleidoscopic machines, or even more new types of IDN that can help to understand an increasingly complex world better. All this should help us to reflect on our current foundations and on how related methodological issues need to be further developed. In this sense, we invite the interactive narrative global community to think about our field in the realm of AI, its influence on creation and creativity, and see how far we intend to go.

DISCLAIMER

The following advertised conferences bearing the acronym ICIDS as well as the title  “International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling” allegedly being organised in Geneva, Switzerland and Indonesia respectively are in no way affiliated with ARDIN nor with this conference and are a blatant attempt to profit from our reputation.

Fake ICIDS Conference 1
Fake ICIDS conference 2

Please note that any submissions to any of these conferences will NOT be considered for acceptance to ARDIN’s ICIDS conference simply because they will not be received by us for consideration.

This year’s ICIDS (International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling) will return to Europe. The hosting country is the Mediterranean island of Malta, with a rich history featuring most of the European powers and reaching back to some of the earliest civilizations, with Neolithic remains dating back to 4000 BC. This history is characterized by decisive battles which shaped world history and by foreign rule due to the country’s strategic position between Africa, Europe and the Middle East. This also led to it both being influenced by many cultures while at the same time becoming influential in art, music, and architecture, way beyond its own shores. Malta’s future-looking economy has attracted iGaming and FinTech companies through early regulation and supportive legal frameworks, The island also embraced the opportunities offered by the recent wave of AI through its National AI Strategy, aiming to position Malta as a testbed for AI innovation in areas like healthcare, transport, and public services. We are happy to be able to host the conference in such a place and we hope that its rich tapestry of the past, the present, and the future will enrich how we look at IDN during the conference.