Interdisciplinary Conference

TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

in Art & Science

20-22 May 2016, Ionian University, Corfu Greece

SCHEDULE

Abstracts Booklet [.v1, Updated: 17/05/2016]
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Conference Schedule [.v9, Updated: 10/05/2016]
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1st Day - 20 May 2016 (Friday)

08:00-09:00

Registration and Welcome

Ionian Academy

09:00-11:30

Day 1 - Morning Sessions

Session 1: Definitions (09:00-10:15)
Chair: Theodore Vlachos, Ionian University, Greece

1.1	Disappeared Histories: The Sacred and Profane Digital Object	Joshua Halberstam	City University of New York, USA
1.2	How Technology and Transgression prevent social stagnation	Elisa Decet	University of Birmingham, UK
1.3	Profanity and obscenity in the vernacular literary texts of Cyprus: Vasilis Michaelides’ To Palioman (The struggle)/πάλιωμαν as a mixed media installation	Evripides Zantides	Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Session 2: Statements in Hybrid Art (10:15-11:30)
Chair: Anna Hatziyiannaki, Art Historian, GreeceBreak (11:30-12:00)

2.1	At the Edge of Human	Polona Tratnik	Alma Europaea - Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Slovenia
2.2	BioQueering Methods of Transgenesis	Adam Zaretsky	Marist University, USA
2.3	Impossible and Incompatible Bodies	Ian Haig	RMIT University, Australia

Ionian Academy

12:00-13:15

Keynote Speech "Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras: Creepy, Uncanny & Contestable Bodies", Stelarc
Chair: Andreas Floros, Ionian University, Greece

Ionian Academy

14:45-15:45

Keynote Speech "Technoetic Transcendence: the message of moistmedia", Roy Ascott
Chair: Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece

Ionian Academy

15:45-20:00

Day 1 - Afternoon Sessions

Session 3: Between Truth and Transgression: The shifting nature of the scientific image (15:45 -17:00)
Chair: Xenofon Bitsikas, University of Ioannina, Greece

3.1	Beyond Effect: Chromatic transgressions and the scientific image	Rob Kesseler	Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London, UK
3.2	Scientific images may also be trangressive. An epistemological approach	Olga Pombo	Center for Philosophy of Science of Lisbon University, Portugal
3.3	“The most profound is the skin” – tattoo and taboo	Catarina Nabais	Center for Philosophy of Science of Lisbon University, Portugal

Break (17:00-17:30)

Session 4: Representation (17:30-18:45)
Chair: Polyxeni Mantzou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

4.1	From Beardsley to Shelley: Sex, politics and transgressive readings of Lysistrata in England	Marina Kotzamani	University of the Peloponnese, Greece
4.2	«Mannequins Smell of Criminal Transgression». Hyperrealistic Dummies in Contemporary Visual Culture	Pietro Conte	Center for Philosophy of Science of Lisbon University, Portugal
4.3	OrgantradAR: Data Body Augmentation and Post-biological Organ Trade for Profit	Julian Stadon	Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Session 5: Forbidden(18:45-20:00)
Chair: Ioannis Deligiannis, Ionian University, Greece

5.1	Sturm Und Drang, The Return - Geniezeit Of The Posthuman	Penny Papageorgopoulou & Dimitris Charitos	Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
5.2	Human Robot Interaction in Manga and Anime: Can people fall in love with Robots?	Laida Limniati & Andreas Giannakoulopoulos	University of Helsinki, Finland Ionian University, Greece
5.3	BIO – LOGICS of ART. Poems questioning the Aesthetics and Linguistics of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)	Irini Athanassakis	Artist researcher, France

Ionian Academy

2nd Day - 21 May 2016 (Saturday)

09:00-13:15

Day 2 - Morning Sessions

Day 2

Session 6: Mutation (09:00-10:15)
Chair: Bill Psarras, Ionian University, Greece

6.1	Body as taboo: The Art History approach	Maria Athanasekou	Art Historian, Greece
6.2	Selfless body, bodiless self: The mind-uploading scenario	John Mazarakis	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
6.3	Genome editing: engineering, applications and limitations	Antigoni Avramouli	Ionian University, Greece

Parallel Sessions I(10:15-11:30)

Session 7A: Gender
Chair: Brenda Murphy, University of Malta, Malta

7A.1	Silence...No More	Lema Malek Salem	Birzeit University, Palestine
7A.2	Transgressing Taboos: a gender centered study of illusions	Alma López Vale	UNED, Spain
7A.3	Bodily transgression: neuro and somatic plasticity and ‘biodrag’ in Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie	Sofia Ropek Hewson	University of Cambridge, UK

Session 7B: Art & Biology
Chair: Adam Zaretsky, Marist College, USA

7B.1	Fungi decay as an art form	Patricia Noronha	ITQB New University of Lisbon, Portugal
7B.2	Doing the Taboo: Examining Affect and Participation in Bioart	Marie Mart Roijackers	University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
7B.3	Bioart under the lens of a Kantian Microscope	Jessica Donato	Goldsmiths College, UK

Break (11:30-12:00)

Parallel Sessions II (12:00-13:15)

Session 8A: Meaning
Chair: Marina Papasotiriou, Art Historian, Greece

8A.1	Lost in Transgression: Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden	Ilana Shiloh	The Academic Center of Law and Business, Israel
8A.2	Translating the "queer": subtitling and taboo words	Katerina Gouleti	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
8A.3	The Web of Hate Revisited Considering the European Refugee Crisis	Andreas Giannakoulopoulos & Laida Limniati	Ionian University, Greece University of Helsinki, Finland

Session 8B: Desire
Chair: Renata Dalianoudi, University of Ioannina, Greece

8B.1	Transgressing the taboo of life in psytrance performances	Leandros Kyriakopoulos	Research Center for the Humanities in Athens, Greece
8B.2	Spaces of intimacy: Transgressing the visual simulation of desire	Ines Lukin	Center for Visual Studies Zagreb, Croatia
8B.3	Erotic and visual transgressions: From Georges Bataille to Nagisa Oshima	Despoina Poulou	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Break (13:15-14:45)

Building of the Depts. History and Archives, Library Science & Museology

09:00-13:15

Focus on A&T in Education

Workshop (09:00-12:00)
Title: ICT and Collaborative Creativity in Modern School towards Knowledge Society
Speakers:

EW.1	Panagiotis Anastassiadis	University of Crete, Greece
EW.2	Kostas Christidis	University of Crete, Greece
EW.3	Lampros Karvounis	University of Crete, Greece
EW.4	Kostas Kotsidis	University of Crete, Greece

Panel (12:00-13:15)
Chair: Kostas Christidis, University of Crete, Greece

EP.1	"The world of sound and image": audiovisual literacy in high school	Eleni Margarou, Anna Matsiori, Triantafyllia Syvaka & Magdalene Tsionki	Experimental Senior High School of University of Macedonia, Greece KESYP Neapolis, Greece
EP.2	Integrating art education with technology: a survey and some good examples	Styliani Sylaiou & Georgios Papaioannou	Ionian University, Greece Ionian University, Greece
EP.3	Terms and Limits of Art in Modern School. The Example of Literature using New Technological and Communication Environments and Spaces Transgression	Paraskevi Ganatsiou	Ionian University, Greece

Building of the Depts. History and Archives, Library Science & Museology

14:45-15:45

Keynote Speech "Universe: The land of Utopia", Manos Danezis
Chair: Nikos Kanellopoulos, Ionian University, Greece

Ionian Academy

12:00-20:00

Day 2 - Afternoon Sessions

Session 9: Contagious (15:45-17:00)
Chair: Olga Pombo, University of Lisbon, Portugal

9.1	Intra-species Transgressions and Micro-ontological Indeterminacy	Nevena Ivanova	DeTao Roy Ascott Studio @Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, China
9.2	Disgust and the Fear of Contagion	Alanna Lynch	Independent artist, Germany
9.3	Material Empathy in an Indivisible Landscape	Jenifer Wightman	Cornell University, USA

Break (17:00-17:30)

Session 10: Web & Art (17:30-18:45)
Chair: Apostolos Loufopoulos, Ionian University, Greece

10.1	The Cyberspace and the Emancipated Artist	Avi Rosen	Technion IIT, Israel
10.2	Taboo and transcendence in Internet Art	Marily Argyrokastriti	Ionian University, Greece
10.3	The Discreet charm of surveillance	Vasilis Bouzas	University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Session 11: Domination (18:45-20:00)
Chair: Polona Tratnik, Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia

11.1	Sacrum intolerandus - Colonial Transgressions	Anna Kedziora	University of Arts in Poznan, Poland
11.2	Beast and Adversity on the Problem of Animism in a (post) modern technological world	Stefan Kristensen & Anna Barseghian	University of Geneva, Switzerland Utopiana, Switzerland - Armenia
11.3	Tactical Extinction	Michael Dudeck	The Museum of Artificial Histories, Canada

Ionian Academy

3rd Day - 22 May 2016 (Sunday)

09:00-13:15

Day 3 - Morning Parallel Sessions

Day 3 - Parallel Sessions IV (09:00-10:15)

Session 12A: Death
Chair: Athena Peglidou, Ionian University, Greece

12A.1	Discussion with a pagan music photograph	Eirini Moschovou	Ionian University, Greece
12A.2	Tesla’s Ashes: From Commonplace to Transgressive	Mirjana Uzelac	University of Alberta, Canada
12A.3	Film adaptations of Frankenstein: Overcoming death on screen	Kostoula Kaloudi	University of the Peloponnese, Greece

Session 12B: Borderless
Chair: Michalis Panagopoulos, Ionian University, Greece

12B.1	Human Evolution, Free Will and Social Restriction	Haralampos Papadamianos	University of Crete, Greece
12B.2	Ecologies of Transmission. Artistic explorations of the taboos and secrets in today's lived electromagnetism	Daniela Silvestrin	Independent researcher, curator and cultural manager, Germany
12B.3	Computational aesthetics and radical novelty: a transcendence beyond algorithms for creative music synthesis?	Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Konstantinos Drossos & Andreas Floros	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Tampere University of Technology, Finland Ionian University, Greece

Day 3 - Parallel Sessions V (10:15-11:30)

Session 13A: Mutilation
Chair: Tania Tsiridou, Ionian University, Greece

13A.1	Unwhole Bodies	Ian Haig	RMIT University, Australia
13A.2	Touching flesh: tracing the human in medical representations and artistic processes	Athanasia Vidali Soula	Ionian University, Greece
13A.3	Apotemnophilia, acrotomophilia, body integrity identity disorder: From the eroticism of impairment to the aesthetics of lack	Eirini Rari	Hospital-University Unit of the Sainte-Anne Hospital of Paris, France

Session 13B: Identities
Chair: Defne Çizakça, Koç University, Turkey

13B.1	Love - Death – Self: artistic narratives	Evaguelia Diamantopoulou, Alexandra Katsineli, Anna Ampatzoglou & Katerina Papakyriakopoulou	Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
13B.2	Daddies, Boyfriends, and Fathers: Strategies of Disruption and the Incest Taboo in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts In Highschool and Sylvia Plath’s Daddy	James Papoutsis	York University, Canada
13B.3	Research approaches of video art to identity and diversity issues. The case of Isaac Julien	Gerasimos Polymeris	ICT School Advisor, Greece

Break (11:30-12:00)

Day 3 - Parallel Sessions VI (12:00-13:15)

Session 14A: Spaces
Chair: Gina Giotaki, Dance Artist – Historian, Greece

14A.1	Out of Space & Time \| Ugly as a synthetic principle	Foteini Nevrokopli & Rodi Tsitouridou	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
14A.2	Neurofeedback and Neuroethics' Limitations	Antonia Plerou	Ionian University, Greece
14A.3	Choreomanic NeuroDance and Its Aesthetics: Dance Research and Controversies Connected to Cognitive Neuroscience and Meme Theory	Sibila Petlevski	University of Zagreb, Croatia

Session 14B: Display
Chair: Konstantinos Tiligadis, Ionian University, Greece

14B.1	Animatronics; From movies to museum. The Casa Parlante Living History Museum in Corfu, Greece	Georgios Papaioannou & Sofia Paschou	Ionian University, Greece Ionian University, Greece
14B.2	3D Projection mapping on historical shells. Art experiments, challenges to the science of architectural restoration	Sofoklis Kotsopoulos	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
14B.3	Museums go digital. And what about ethics? Is there a path to pass or a route to follow?	Georgios Papaioannou & Sofia Paschou	Ionian University, Greece Ionian University, Greece

Building of the Depts. History and Archives, Library Science & Museology

13:15-13:30

Day 3 - Closing

Building of the Depts. History and Archives, Library Science & Museology

Updated: 20-12-2019