18th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

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.