CALL FOR ARTWORKS: [RE|DIS]CONNECTION (DEADLINE: AUGUST 31)
“City rooftops from the Radisson Blu hotel” by Stephen Colebourne is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
The ICIDS 2021 Art Exhibition provides a platform for artists, makers and creators to explore interactive storytelling from the perspective of a particular curatorial theme:
[Re|Dis]Connection
The curatorial team seeks to inspire proposals with the following open questions:
This year, the exhibition will be held in connection with the ICIDS conference in Tallinn, Estonia, which runs from 7-10 of December. It will be open to the public under free admission at a venue to be announced later. A virtual catalogue of the works will be hosted online by the conference, and descriptions and scholarship published by Carnegie Mellon ETC Press in a peer-reviewed, ISBN-numbered volume in the year following the exhibition.
The ICIDS Art Exhibition welcomes proposals for interactive digital storytelling artworks that explore the curatorial theme [Re|Dis]Connection, and that engage with the challenge of combining computational digital media and storytelling. Artworks can include, but are not limited to:
August 31, 2021 (11:59 pm, Eastern European Summer Time) artwork proposal submission deadline.
ICIDS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with studying digital interactive forms of narrative from a variety of perspectives, including theoretical, technological, and applied design lenses. The annual conference is an interdisciplinary gathering that combines technology-focused approaches with humanities-inspired theoretical inquiry, empirical research and artistic expression. This year is the 14th edition of the conference. ICIDS is the main academic conference of the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives (ARDIN).
A downloadable version of this call can be found here: pdf | plain text