Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science 2017

The conference 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. 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 | B... Read more

The conference 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. 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.