[Commlist] cfp: International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

CALL FOR PAPERS
STREAMS ~ CORRIENTES
For the first time, ICIDS (International Conference on Interactive 
Digital Storytelling) will be held in a Latin American country, inviting 
us to position ourselves and the conference in this territory and to 
finally acknowledge the continents’ research and accomplishments in 
interactive digital storytelling.

The host city of this year is Barranquilla, a city surrounded by 
different kinds of waterbodies: the Caribbean Sea, the Magdalena river, 
and the Mallorquín Swamp: an ecosystem where migratory species from both 
hemispheres mingle. The oceanic and earth forces that led to the 
formation of the city’s landscape provided the inspiration for the main 
theme of the conference: STREAMS or CORRIENTES in Spanish. With this 
topic we aim to draw attention to constant movement, exchange, 
convergences and divergences within the various systems that we inhabit 
and are part of. In this sense, we invite the interactive narrative 
global community to think about our field within posthumanist, 
multispecies, and pluriversal contexts.

STREAMS ~ CORRIENTES looks into the collisions of different streams of 
thought that converge into and extend the Interactive Digital Narratives 
field. What epistemologies are shaping the IDN landscape and enriching 
our understanding of the interconnectedness among humans, but also with 
other species and machines? This topic also invites us to revisit the 
current streams that carry us forward in IDN research and practice. How 
can and will IDN as a discipline respond to rapidly changing 
sociopolitical movements, especially concerning issues of identity, 
representation, and social justice? How do IDNs incorporate and push 
back against technological currents such as generative AI?

We extend a special invitation to Latin American and Global South 
scholars and practitioners to submit to any area of the conference. The 
language of submissions and presentations is English, with simultaneous 
translation offered during the conference between English and Spanish to 
facilitate a global and inclusive dialogue. As it is vital for our 
community to give space to historically marginalized epistemologies, we 
invite you to reflect how alternative views and applications from the 
so-called Global South deepen our understanding of interactive digital 
narratives, narrative structures, themes, audiences, and applications?

We encourage authors to consider possible connections to this theme and 
we will foreground contributions that focus on the topic. But we also 
emphasize that there is no requirement that papers or workshops reflect 
the theme, either implicitly or explicitly – it is meant only as 
inspiration and is not intended to impose a constraint on other possible 
contributions and topics relevant to the field of Interactive Digital 
Storytelling. To that end, we also suggest other areas and modes for 
presentation, including late-breaking works, a new category introduced 
last year.

Please review the following areas of interest and descriptions of types 
of contributions for more consideration:

Areas of Interest
Paper submissions are invited into one of the main conference areas 
listed below. Please note that the defined areas are intended to be 
general and we invite authors to interpret them broadly. They are meant 
to help us find appropriate reviewers and design a program that reflects 
a diverse range of interests on the topic of Interactive Digital 
Storytelling.

Interactive Narrative Design
Social and Cultural Contexts
Theory, History, and Foundations
Tools and Systems
Virtual Worlds, Performance, Games, and Play
Applications and Case Studies
Workshops, Art Exhibition, and Doctoral Consortium
ICIDS will also host a series of workshops, demos, an exhibition of 
creative works, and a doctoral consortium for student researchers. The 
calls for these will be available separately on the website.

Submission categories
Papers may be either long or short but must present interesting and 
novel work at all stages of completion. The appropriate length should be 
determined by the author(s) to best represent the material they choose 
to foreground. All papers may contain images and/or figures. However, 
note that any images or figures not produced by the authors will require 
copyright clearance.

Full papers (4000-6000 words, excluding references, to be published in 
the proceedings).
Short papers (2000-4000 words, excluding references, to be published in 
the proceedings).
Late Breaking Work (2000-3000 words, excluding references, to be 
published in the proceedings) describing works in progress, working, 
presentable systems, or brief explanations of a research project. Late 
Breaking Work will be presented at the conference in the form of a demo 
or poster session, not a full presentation, and should be selected if 
the full or short paper formats are unsuitable for representing the 
proposed research, due to their unfinished nature.

Important dates:

Submission deadline (full, short):
June 28th
Art Exhibition submission deadline:
July 5th
Reviews released to authors, start of rebuttal phase:
July 31st
Final decisions sent to authors:
August 19th
Camera-ready papers due
September 13th
Late-Breaking Work Deadline:
September 13th
Late Breaking Work Decisions:
October 4th
Camera Ready Deadline (Late-Breaking):
October 13th
Conference
December 2nd - 6th

Further information:

ICIDS – International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 
(ardin.online) <https://icids2024.ardin.online/>

Contact:

Dr. María Cecilia Reyes
(mcreyes /at/ uninorte.edu.co)
Program Chair
Universidad del Norte
Dr. John T. Murray
(jtm /at/ ucf.edu)
Program Chair
University of Central Florida


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