International Conference, Mexico City (November 11-13, 2018) TTT2018 Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science
The third TTT conference will take place in Mexico in November 2018 hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Centro de Cultura Digital and Coordinated in partnership with the program of the FACTT 2018 - Festival Art & Science Trans-disciplinary and Trans-national. The conference is co-organized by the Research and Creation Group Arte+Ciencia, UNAM (Mexico), Arte Institute (USA), Cultivamos Cultura (Portugal) besides the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University (Greece). https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/ Final program Sunday 11 November 2018 | Venue: Centro de Cultura Digital 11:00 Registration 11:30 Opening Opening speakers: María Antonia González Valerio (UNAM, Mexico), Marta de Menezes (Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal), Dalila Honorato (Ionian University, Greece) 12:00 Session 1 - Eco-Narratives Chairperson: Dalila Honorato (Ionian University, Greece) Vibrations Matter – Being in Between Victoria Vesna, UCLA Arts, USA Fleeing - The Fate of Escaped Animals Kathy High, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Sounds of a troubled world's = Underwater Interception of aquaforming Robertina Sebjanic, Independent Artist, Slovenia Climate Change and Resistance Cosima Herter, Independent writer and science consultant, Canada 14:00 - 16:00 Break 16:00 Session – Teasing Chairperson: Rosaura Ruiz Gutiérrez (UNAM, Mexico) Speculating the futures of Human- Robot Marriage: scenario construction and couple recommendation Pat Pataranutaporn & Suthee Ploisawaschai, FREAK Lab, USA Sexuality in VR Vladimir Storm, CyberDeath, Germany Epicurean Endocrinology – Down - home Molecular Gastronomy: Sex Hormones, Body Politics & Food Byron Rich & Liz Flyntz, Allegheny College, Canada & Independent Artist, USA COD | LIFE | LOVE Marita Isobel Solberg & Trond Ansten, Tara Morhua, Norway 16:00 Session – Deprivation Chairperson: Sixto J. Castro (Univ. Valladolid, Spain) Thanatos Art: Murder as Trope Pablo Baler, California State University, USA Art and Philosophy - Intercommunicating through the Looking Glass of Death Evaguelia Diamantopoulou, University of Athens, Greece Art, Technology, and Trans-Death Options Reyes Espinoza, Purdue University, USA Thinking the Unthinkable Juan Felipe Guevara-Aristizabal and José Agustín Mercado-Reyes, UNAM, Mexico 18:00 Session – Tickling Chairperson: Sandra P González Santos (Univ. Iberoamericana, Mexico) Welcome Home Eugenics: The Media Ecology of BioHacking CRISPR/Cas9 Mark Lipton & Efrat Gold University of Guelph & Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada A Sentimental Analysis of Biohackers on Social Media Laida Limniati, Dalila Honorato & Andreas Giannakoulopoulos University of Helsinki, Finland & Ionian University, Greece Emergent Roberta Buiani, York University, Canada EnTs: Engineered Tree Systems Gabriel Licina, SciHouse, USA 18:00 Session – Objectification Chairperson: Manuela de Barros (Univ. París 8, France) Cyborgs’ genealogy Homero Vázquez Carmona, UNAM, Mexico ENCAJA/INSERT: S vs. L ¿Cómo decolonizar cuerpos jugando? Cecilia Vilca Ocharan & Lorena Peña Piedra, Microscopía Electrónica y Aplicaciones en el Perú & Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru The Last Valve: The Great Revolution of the Species Boryana Rossa Dragoeva & Oleg Mavromatti, Syracuse University, USA / Bulgaria & ULTRAFUTURO, Russia Art in a microbial world: Feminist New Materialism and the Posthuman Mariana Pérez Bobadilla, City University of Hong Kong Monday 12 November 2018 | Venue: UNAM 10:00 Session – Friction Chairperson: Eva Hernández (UNAM, Mexico) Art-Biology-STS. Examining the science from the art perspective. Karolina Żyniewicz, University of Warsaw, Poland A referendum for the legalization of common offspring of all hominids Reiner Maria Matysik, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle | University of Art and Design, Germany Epigenetics as metaphor: the of language limits Sofia Falomir, UNAM, Mexico Does Transgenic Human Production take into account the effect of Aesthetics on the long term Ecological effects of GMO Baby Design Adam Zaretsky, Marist College, USA 10:00 Session – Stimulation Chairperson: Sebastián Lomelí Bravo (UNAM, Mexico) Tomo Savić-Gecan: Anti-matter Tomo Savić-Gecan, Independent Artist, Netherlands Civil disobedience. Art, science and technology Gemma Argüello Manresa, UNAM, Mexico Soils and Interventions – PosthumanTrack Linus Lancaster, Healdsburg Unified School District, USA Food supply in times of anthropocene. An anthropotechnical perspective Manuela de Barros, University Paris 8, France 12:00 Session – Seduction Chairperson: Francisco Vergara-Silva (Instituto de Biología, UNAM & Red INTEGRA, Mexico) Identity and Evolution: crossing pathways Marta de Menezes, Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal Collaborating with Microbial Life Nicole Clouston, University of York, Canada Molecular Aesthetics: Living Systems in Art and Design Ingeborg Reichle, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria Humanoil from Magic and Medicine to Art Hege Tapio, i/o/lab - Center for Future Art, Norway 12:00 Session – Abduction Chairperson: Cuitláhuac Moreno Romero (UNAM, Mexico) From machine learning to human learning. Education, AI and the fusion of the teacher with the student Alain Lioret, Ioannis Bardakos & Rui Wu Paris 8 University, France & Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts/DeTao & University of Plymouth - Planetary Collegium, China The Anthropocosmic Vision of Mixed Reality: Taking HCI Artwork Flow of Qi (2007) as a Case Study Yi-Chen Wu, National Sun-Yat-sen University, Taiwan Agents without Agency: Artificial Intelligence as Artistic Medium Rodrigo Guzman S. & and Katsiaryna Suryna, Danube University Krems, Austria & Central European University, Hungary Algorithmic Agencies in Artistic Practice: Speculative Design and Alternative Futures Ebru Yetiskin, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey 14:00 - 16:00 Break 16:00 Session – Intimacy Chairperson: Marta de Menezes (Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal) Anatomy of an Interconnected System Margherita Pevere, Aalto Univeristy, Finland / Germany Edges of the Unseen- Imaginary Transgressions of Living Knowledge Maria Manuela Lopes, Instituto de Ciências Educativas do Douro, Portugal Body Art Performance as Physiological Panic Jill Mcdermid & Erik Hokanson, Grace Exhibition Space, USA The artistic intervention as a transgressive act scrutinising the human body through three states of matter Meritxell Rosell & Nuria Criado, CLOT Magazine, UK 16:00 Session – Voyeurism Chairperson: Sofía Falomir (UNAM, Mexico) boattr - towpath as social commons Adnan Hadzi, University of Malta, Malta RANDOM INTERNATIONAL ASD &, RHYSIMEROLL ECC CL Max Hawkins, Deep Question, LLC, USA The Wizard Delivered: Infrared Imaging as an Art Form Marne Lucas, Independent Artist, USA Zona Autónoma Militarizada.Europa [zam~]: A multimedia archive and immersive/360°, reactive and interactive audiovisual system based on field studies across the militarized European borders and hotspots where slavery & THB cells operate Miguel Oliveros Mediavilla, Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain 18:00 Session – Arousal Chairperson: Gemma Argüello Manresa (UNAM, Mexico) Transgression on Digital & Performing art of Henri Tauliaut and Annabel Gueredrat artistic approach in relation with actual american artists Henri Tauliaut, CRILLASH Equipe d’accueil 4095, Martinique Until The Light Takes Us Jacco Borggreve, Wilco Bonestroo, Frank Kresin, Steven Dorrestijn & Wouter Eggink, AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts, Saxion University of applied Sciences & University of Twente, Netherlands WHOOPS Alexander Romania, KLUTZ, USA The NO!!!BOT: Situating the Web of the Necro-Techno Complex Praba Pilar, Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno, USA 18:00 Session – Regaining Lucidity Curator: Jorge Ramirez, Anemonal, Mexico ARC-data Arcangel Constantini arc-data.net, Mexico Neuropolítica y el lenguaje de la percepción Eddie Castaneda Human Bios Project, Mexico 101 nights Nathalie Regard Dream Sessions, Mexico Burning thoughts Jaime Lobato, Independencia Biolab, Mexico 13 November 2018 | Venue: UNAM 10:00 Session – Itchiness Chairperson: María Antonia González Valerio (UNAM, Mexico) Developments in Spatially Immersive Sound John Brumley, University of Tsukuba, Japan Transmission: Disease as Design Kira Decoudres, Independent Artist, USA “Becoming with the otherness”: Broadening the spectrum of relationships thorough art and science Maru Garcia, UCLA Arts, USA Looking for an Acheulean Handaxe in Messy Knowledge Matej Vakula, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA 10:00 Session – Apparatus Chairperson: Ingeborg Reichle (University of Applied Arts, Austria) TRANSCENDENCES: Collaborative Creativity as Alternative Transformative Practice of new Technologies in art and science P aulo Bernardino Bastos, University of Aveiro, Portugal Novel Approach to Research and Development: Citizen Science, Postmodern Art, Interdisciplinarity and Innovations Gjino Sutic, Universal Research Institute / Gen0 Industries, Croatia Documenting Trans Resistence Elizabeth Littlejohn, Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada 3D printers: prosthetics of hands and imaginations. Pedro Hernandez Baez, UNAM, Mexico 12:00 Session – Flow Chairperson: Axel Barceló (UNAM, Mexico) Aeolian Bacteria and Transgressive Weather Modification Joel Ong, York University, Canada Return to Dilmun Günter Seyfried University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria Transcending Taboos and Transgressions or Merely Ploughing Towards? Dolores Steinman & David Steinman, University of Toronto, Canada Cyborg 24/7 Andrew Carnie, The University of Southampton, UK 12:00 Session – Dystopians Chairperson: Francisco Vergara-Silva (Instituto de Biología, UNAM & Red INTEGRA, Mexico) Madness and Individualism: Unravelling in Crazy Times Sharry Taylor & Efrat Gold, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada The Projectability of the Engagements in Art and Science Polona Tratnik, Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia A Kerosene Summer Dress Graydon Wetzler New York University, USA Soap, Medium, and Species of the Capitalocene Sebastián Lomelí-Bravo, UNAM, Mexico 14:00 - 16:00 Break 16:00 Session – Orientation Chairperson: Lena Ortega (UNAM, Mexico) The Animal Hummingbird Felipe Shibuya, Independent Artist, USA The Forest Diplomatic Speech Alan Tod, Forest artist, Portugal Landfill Dominion - The economy of a man-made Neo-Paradise Jenifer Wightman , Parsons – the New School for Design, USA Kontejner - bureau of contemporary art practice Olga Majcen Linn & Suncica Ostoic, Kontejner, Croatia 16:00-18:00 Session – Journeys Chairperson: Rosaura Martínez Ruiz (UNAM, Mexico) Encounters of humans and non-humans in bio art Olga Timurgalieva, Lodz University, Poland Encoding Omniscience: Artist-Scientist Joe Davis’ Tree of Knowledge Rachel Treide, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA Aesthetic Approach of Hyperspaces Dimitrios Traperas & Nikolaos Kanellopoulos, Ionian University, Greece The transcendence of transgression Sixto Castro, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain The conferences "Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science" include theoretical presentations and artists' talks focusing: 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. A brainchild of Dalila Honorato, Assistant Professor at the Ionian University (GR), 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 past 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. In 2016 and 2017, among other events, the conference teamed up with the Audiovisual Arts Festival and the Municipal Gallery of Corfu to host the exhibitions "Stelarc: Alternate Anatomies", "iGMO: Adam Zaretsky" and "Body Esc" including works of artists Andrew Carnie (UK), Alkistis Georgiou (Greece), Marne Lucas (USA), Joseph Nechvatal (France), Kira O' Rilley & Manuel Vason (Finland & UK), Nikos Panayotopoulos (Greece), Ayse Gul Suter (Turkey), Hege Tapio (Norway) and Adam Zaretsky (USA). The conference proceedings, available as a free ebook published by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University for TTT2016 are available in the proceedings page of TTT2016 and for TTT2017 in the proceedings page of TTT2017, both edited by Dalila Honorato and Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, also Assistant Professor at the Ionian University (GR) and webmaster of the conferences official website. Selected texts from the TTT2017 were published on the special issue vol. 15:2 of the Technoetic Arts journal, following the invitation of Roy Ascott (editor-in-chief) to Dalila Honorato (guest-editor). Scientific & Artistic Committee: Gemma Argüello, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Irina Aristarkhova, University of Michigan, USA Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tarsh Bates, SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia Andrew Carnie, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Ionian University, Greece Luis Graça, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal Nigel Llwyd William Helyer, Macquarie University, Australia Minerva Hernández, Bioscénica, México Cosima Herter, writer and science consultant, Canada Kathy High, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece Sebastián Lomelí, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Marta de Menezes, Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal Gunalan Nadarajan, University of Michigan, USA Ingeborg Reichle, Institute for Fine Arts and Media Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria Cuitláhuac Moreno Romero, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Dolores Steinman, University of Toronto, Canada David Steinman, University of Toronto, Canada Polona Tratnik, Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia María Antonia González Valerio, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Adam Zaretsky, Marist College, 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 Director, Manager Arts & Culture Development, Australia Stelarc, Curtin University, Australia Polona Tratnik, Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia Adam Zaretsky, Marist College, USA Organizing Committee: Head: Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece Members: María Antonia González Valerio, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Marta de Menezes, Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal Ana Ventura Miranda, Arte Institute, USA Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Ionian University, Greece unamwww.unam.mx -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Reichle Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien / University of Applied Arts Vienna Abteilung Medientheorie / Media Theory Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2 1010 Wien, Austria www.dieangewandte.at -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
