TTT2020: Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science 2020 Online November 26-28, 2020 |
Conference website | https://ttt-conference.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttt2020 |
Submission deadline | October 14, 2020 |
Facebook page | https://www.facebook.com/TTTinArtSci/ |
Contact | av-ttt@ionio.gr |
TTT2020: Call for papers, posters and artist-talks
Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science 2020
Deadline for proposals: May 31, 2020
Online Conference, 26–28 November 2020
The fourth international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science", taking place November 26–28, 2020, would be in Austria, hosted by the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the conference will be exclusively online: TTT2020 Vienna/Online. Including theoretical and art practice presentations, TTT2020 continues to focus: (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and aesthetics of liminality as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science; (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art.
What constitutes the unstable limits of what can be morally and epistemically accepted should be read within the historical horizons of cultures and circumstances. After all, what seems outrageously transgressive at one moment in time and from one perspective may eventually transcend into a commonplace practice. As we experience and even endorse a gradual, but substantial, de-centering away from anthropocentric values and ontologies, critique potentially harbors turmoil. Art practices pose critical questions about our certainties; sciences and humanities constantly test our limits and our ideas of worlds by pushing forward the conditions in which knowledge is produced.
Developments in science and technology that seem to enhance the borders of our experience of worlds and selves, revealing sometimes the fragility of social values, should be contemplated. Identities, ideologies, multiplicities, worlds, and visions are accepted and rejected, invented and destroyed: what are the forces behind and beyond? We propose critique within transdiscipline, where science, arts, and humanities meet in a research quest, in an attempt at reframing and reconfiguring what there is. Through immersion in the complex realm of limits and liminalities, one might trace the historical and trans-subjective structures filtering our experience of worlds, and ultimately open up space for transformations through the interaction of art, science, and the humanities.
Submissions are welcome from all art and research fields and cutting-edge technology in arts-based research. Suggested, but not exclusive topics, are those associated with: Biopunk, hybridity and aesthetics of mutation; Cyborg, augmentation and bοdy modification; Post-gender, transgressive identities and social models; Psychopharmacology, somatechnology, and post-humanism; Chemistry of the mind, natural healers, and mind enhancement; Biotechnology, DIYbio, and biohacking; Ethology, human and nonhuman; Evolution, genetics, and extended evolutionary synthesis; Cyber-eroticism, sex technology, and techno-lust; Biopolitics, displacement, and resistance. The conference language is English. Proposals are submitted for consideration to the members of the scientific and artistic committee.
Each proposal must include: abstract (which should be no more than 500 words), presentation title, author(s)/artist(s) name(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), up to 5 keywords, short CV / resumé (approximately 150 words), type of presentation: paper, poster or artist talk. Proposals for artist talks should also include link(s) to documentation material (photos, video, audio, etc.) or, in the case of proposals for poster presentations, to the draft poster in pdf format A3 size (29,7 × 42 cm) maximum 5 Mb / 200 dpi in CMYK colour mode. Links like Dropbox or Google Drive can be used, but links with an expiration date (e.g. WeTransfer) are not acceptable. In addition, if the link has a password, it should be included too.
Steering Committee:
- Roy Ascott, Plymouth University, UK
- Andreas Floros, Ionian University, Greece
- Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece
- Gunalan Nadarajan, University of Michigan, USA
- Melentie Pandilovski, Riddoch Art Gallery Director, Manager Arts & Culture Development, Australia
- Stelarc, Curtin University, Australia
- Polona Tratnik, Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia
- Adam Zaretsky, Marist University, USA
Organizing Committee:
- Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece
- Ingeborg Reichle, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
- María Antonia González Valerio, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Zahra Mirza, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Scientific & Artistic Committee:
- Irina Aristarkhova, University of Michigan, USA
- Tarsh Bates, SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia
- Sonja Bäumel, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Andrew Carnie, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
- Petra Gemeinboeck, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
- Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Ionian University, Greece
- Nigel Llwyd William Helyer, Macquarie University, Australia
- Cosima Herter, writer and science consultant, Canada
- Kathy High, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
- Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece
- Akihiro Kubota, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
- Cvetana Ivanova, Re: Art and Science Research Foundation, Bulgaria
- Reiner Maria Matysik, Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle, Germany
- Marta de Menezes, Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal
- Gunalan Nadarajan, University of Michigan, USA
- Ingeborg Reichle, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
- Günter Seyfried, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
- Klaus Spiess, Medical University Vienna, Austria
- Dolores Steinman, University of Toronto, Canada
- Jan Svenungsson, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
- Polona Tratnik, Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia
- Georg Tremmel, University of Tokyo, Japan
- María Antonia González Valerio, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Virgil Widrich, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
- Pinar Yoldas, University of California San Diego, USA
- Adam Zaretsky, Marist College, USA