Art conference

Deadline: 31 March 2020

The fourth international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" will take place November 26–28, 2020, in Austria, 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, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art.

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.

Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science reminds applicants that this conference was formed with the intention to allow for non-restrictive topics and discussions. TTT expects authors to delve into the most obscure, pathological, visionary and/or licentious lines of questioning. So if you have topics that touch on the deepest taboos in art and technology studies, transgressions to reveal that cause seismic activity on the fault-lines of the art and science divide, or even seemingly unmentionable, cultish, transcendental SciArt visions to impart upon us, then this is the venue to allow those novel subterranean and of the beyond whispers come out loud. TTT2020 offers a platform to engage in an openly liminal discussion. This is your chance to present concepts deemed: difficult, un-sutured, challenging, giddy, tawdry, festering, elated, illuminated, libidinal, queer, unpalatable, convulsive, feral and mutagenic. Please let TTT be an echo chamber of fearless ideation and know that this is a space for free range concepts and raw cognition unencumbered by topical limits.


The conference language is English. Proposals are submitted for consideration to the members of the scientific and artistic committee.

No entry fee

Details:
https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/