On behalf of the ICMA board, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the ICMC 2020 organizing committee, we would like to inform the computer music community that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 ICMC will not take place this year as planned and has been rescheduled to July 2021.

All papers, music, installations, panels, and workshops submitted and accepted as part of the “2020 ICMC” call will be given the opportunity to be presented physically in Santiago next year, at the “2021 ICMC.” Due to the disruptions from the pandemic, the reviewing process has also suffered some unforeseen delays. We expect to notify results of the “2020 call” to all authors and artists by mid May 2020 and all accepted works will also be posted on the conference website.

We acknowledge and appreciate the fact that authors who have chosen to submit their research papers to the ICMC for eventual publication, have done so by forfeiting submission to other conferences and journals. After careful considerations, we have decided that all accepted papers will be afforded the option of being published this year as originally planned. Authors of accepted papers will thus be given the opportunity of having their works (1) published online on the conference website this year, (2) included in proceedings in 2021, and (3) programmed for presentation at the Santiago ICMC next year.