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Dear Spectrites,<br>
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You may be interested by this call for the conference TTT/Taboo
Transgression Transcendence in Art & Science.<br>
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Best<br>
Annick<br>
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TTT2020: Call for papers, posters and artist-talks<br>
Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science 2020<br>
Deadline for proposals: March 31, 2020<br>
The University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, 26–28 November 2020<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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. Submissions must be sent electronically
through the EasyChair submissions system for the TTT2020 conference
<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttt2020">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttt2020</a><br>
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Website: <a href="http://ttt-conference.org">ttt-conference.org</a>
| email: <a href="mailto:av-ttt@ionio.gr">av-ttt@ionio.gr</a>
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