Due to the current challenges brought by COVID-19 and the priorities of adaptation to
our life under social distancing, the submission deadline to TTT 2020 Vienna is extended to May 31st, 2020. The progression
of the COVID-19 pandemic made this decision an obvious and sensible one. Submission link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttt2020
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, thank you to all of you who have submitted your abstracts
so far. We will keep you posted on any updates concerning the conference.
In 2020 the fourth international
conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art and Science will take place in Vienna from November 26-28, 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.
From September 2019 on, submissions
will be 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.
A brainchild of Dalila Honorato, Assistant Professor at the Ionian University,
the first two conferences, TTT2016 and TTT2017 were held in Corfu, organized by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts
and supported by public and private institutions, mostly local. In the first two years the conference counted, with the presence
of Stelarc, Roy Ascott, Adam Zaretsky, Manos Danezis, Polona Tratnik, Gunalan Nadarajan, Irina Aristarkhova, Marta de Menezes,
Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valerio, Andrew Carnie and Kathy High as guest speakers. The third TTT conference, TTT2018, took place
in Mexico City, hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Centro de Cultura Digital. Following an invitation
of Marta De Menezes, Ana Ventura Miranda and Maria Antonia González Valerio, the conference was co-organized by the Research
and Creation Group Arte+Ciencia, UNAM (MX), Arte Institute (USA), Cultivamos Cultura (PT) besides the Department of Audio
& Visual Arts, Ionian University (GR).
Since the beginning TTT intends to provide a comfortable
set for the interaction of its participants and the students of the academic institution hosting it. This is accomplished
through the coordination of the conference’s agenda with the development of other activities such as art exhibitions, screenings,
live performances, book presentations, poster exhibitions and workshops developed within the hosting institution in collaboration
with other organizations.
