[rohrpost] CFP: Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art and Science, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, November 26–28, 2020

[Ingeborg Reichle]

TTT2020: Call for papers, posters and artist-talks

CFP: Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art and Science

Deadline for proposals: March 31, 2020

The University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, November 26–28, 2020

The fourth international conference "Taboo - Transgression -
Transcendence in Art and Science" will take place from November 26–28,
2020 in Vienna, hosted by the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

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, potentially critique
harbours 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
interrogated. Identities, ideologies, multiplicities, worlds, and
visions are accepted and rejected, invented and destroyed; what are
the forces behind and beyond? We propose critique within a
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 art 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 (no more than 150 words). Submissions must be sent
electronically through the EasyChair submissions system for the
TTT2020 conference.

More info: https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/

Information: av-conf at ionio.gr

Scientific and 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, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

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, Arts and Culture
Development, Australia
• Stelarc, artist, Australia
• Polona Tratnik, Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia
• Adam Zaretsky, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
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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

Communication Team:
• Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece
• Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Ionian University, Greece
• Ioustini Eloul, Ionian University, Greece
• Ioanna Logaki, Ionian University, Greece