AVARTS: Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science 2018 in Mexico [11-13/11/18]

The final program of the Third Interdisciplinary Conference "Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science" has just been released. The conference, hosted by the Centro de Cultura Digital (CCD) on November 11th and by the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IIFs-UNAM) on November 12-13th, 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. The organization of TTT2018 is a joined effort of the committee composed by: Dalila Honorato and Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Ionian University, Greece, María Antonia González Valerio, Research and Creation Group Arte+Ciencia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Marta de Menezes, Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal and Ana Ventura Miranda, Arte Institute, USA.

With 77 presentations taking place in Mexico City, TTT2018 has 96 speakers coming from Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom and USA. All presenters (organized by last name in alphabetical order): Trond Ansten, Pedro Hernandez Baez, Pablo Baler, Ioannis Bardakos, Paulo Bernardino Bastos, Mariana Pérez Bobadilla, Jacco Borggreve, John Brumley, Roberta Buiani, Homero Vázquez Carmona, Andrew Carnie, Eddie Castaneda, Sixto Castro, Nicole Clouston, Arcangel Constantini, Nuria Criado, Manuela de Barros, Marta de Menezes, Kira deCoudres, Evaguelia Diamantopoulou, Boryana Rossa Dragoeva, Reyes Espinoza, Sofia Falomir, Jamie Ferguson, Liz Flyntz, Maru Garcia, Tomo Savic Gecan, Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Efrat Gold, Juan Felipe Guevara-Aristizabal, Rodrigo Guzman S., Adnan Hadzi, Cosima Herter, Kathy High, Erik Hokanson, Dalila Honorato, Nikolaos Kanellopoulos, Linus Lancaster, Gabriel Licina, Laida Limniati, Olga Majcen Linn, Alain Lioret, Mark Lipton, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Jaime Lobato, Sebastián Lomelí-Bravo, Maria Manuela Lopes, Marne Lucas, Michael Lucenkiw, Gemma Argüello Manresa, Reiner Maria Matysik, Jill McDermid, José Agustín Mercado-Reyes, Miguel Oliveros Mediavilla, Cecilia Vilca Ocharan, Suncica Ostoic, Joel Ong, Pat Pataranutaporn, Margherita Pevere, Lorena Peña Piedra, Praba Pilar, Jorge Ramirez, Nathalie Regard, Ingeborg Reichle, Byron Rich, Alexander Romania, Meritxell Rosell, Robertina Šebjanič, Günter Seyfried, Felipe Shibuya, Marita Isobel Solberg, Katsiaryna Suryna, Dolores Steinman, David Steinman, Vladimir Storm, Gjino Sutic, Hege Tapio, Sharry Taylor, Olga Timurgalieva, Alan Tod, Dimitrios Traperas, Polona Tratnik, Rachel Treide, Matej Vakula, Victoria Vesna, Graydon Wetzler, Jenifer Wightman, Yi-Chen Wu, Ebru Yetiskin, Jude Abu Zaineh, Adam Zaretsky, Karolina Żyniewicz and Rui Wu.

The conference is organized in collaboration with FACTT Mexico 2018 by Arte Institute and Cultivamos Cultura within Festival N by UNAM and Bioscenica. The festival opening is on November 10th at 12:00 with the inauguration of its exhibition "Espacios de Especies" [Spaces of Species] at the Centro de Cultura Digital. The works presented in the exhibition, curated by Mariantonia González Valerio, question the categories of adaptation, variation and speciation based on the relationship of reciprocity between living organisms and the environment. The exhibition will take place until 15 of February and includes artworks by: Brandon Ballengée, Andy Gracie, Bios ex Machina, Jaime Lobato, Kathy High, Lena Ortega, Marta de Menezes, Minerva Hernández Trejo, Abigail Jara, Alberto Cerro, Héctor Ugalde, Irasema Serrano, Alejandro Ortiz & Ary Ehrenberg, D.H. Plataforma Bioscénica, Robertina Šebjanič, Victoria Vesna, Maria Francisca Abreu Afonso, Jude Abu Zaineh, Alan Tod, Maria Manuela Lopes & Paulo Bernardino Bastos.

Also, on November 8-9th the satellite event of TTT2018, curated by Adam Zaretsky and Alejandro Chellet, "BioCuerpos Perfor|m|ados" is organized by the Grace Exhibition Space in collaboration with Casa Viva Gallery, Paranoid Visions UTA and Anemonal. Hosted by Paranoid Visions UTA and Casa Viva Gallery, this two nights performances counts with the presence of artists: Boryana Rossa Dragoeva, Kim Doan Quoc, Kira deCoudres, Oya Damla, Alexander Romania, Praba Pilar, Adam Zaretsky, Swan Panda [Jorge Ramirez and Julian Stadon], Alejandro Chellet, Marita Solberg, Cecilia Vilca, Lorena Lo Peña, Jacco Borggreve, Margherita Pevere and María Eugenia Chellet.

The TTT conference series is supported by its Steering Committee composed by: 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) and Adam Zaretsky, Marist College (USA). The conference proceedings will be published in digital format (e-Book) with ISBN number by an academic publishing house edited by Dalila Honorato, María Antonia González Valerio, Marta de Menezes and Andreas Giannakoulopoulos. A selected number of papers of TTT2018 will be published in a special issue of Technoetic Arts journal by Intellect, vol. 16.3, following an invitation of editor in chief Roy Ascott, to guest-editor Dalila Honorato.

Official Website: https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/2018/en/
Email: av-ttt@ionio.gr