The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University organizes for the second year in a row the interdisciplinary conference “Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science”, including theoretical and artwork presentations. In 26-28 May 2017 the conference will take place once more in the island of Corfu.
The conference continues to focus: a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality – as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science, b) in the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. Besides the call for papers and artwork presentation, this year’s conference also includes a call for posters, organized in conjunction with the A-Club of the Planetary Collegium.
Submissions are welcome from all art and research fields with emphasis on filmmaking, illustration, video art, sound art / electroacoustic music, photography, animation, videogames, computer art, installation art, performance art, bio art, net.art, electronic art, robotic art and cutting-edge technology in art research.
Suggested, but not exclusive topics, are those associated with:
Chemistry of the mind, natural healers and mind enhancement
Post gender, transgressive identities and social models
Cyborg, augmentation and bοdy modification
Psycho-pharmacology, somatechnology and post-humanism
Human-like machines, uncanny valley and sex technology
Biopunk, hybridity and aesthetics of mutation
Biotechnology, biophysics and music technology
For more information, please visit: http://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/2017/en/submissions/
e-mail: av-fest@ionio.gr