Interdisciplinary Conference

TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

in Art & Science

9-13 September 2025, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

PROGRAM

The 1st preliminary program of sessions and roundtables of TTT2025 Ljubljana has just been published. Approximately 170 speakers from more than 30 countries focusing (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art.

Starting on September 10, TTT2025 Ljubljana conference program is structured into 30 sessions, presenting as well six roundtables, plus showreels, performances and an exhibition. Two sessions run in parallel (A at Katedrala Hall & B at Komuna Hall). Each session lasts 90 minutes and is composed of 4 presentations, a mix of papers and artist talks (15 minutes each), the initial 15 minutes are for introductions by the chairperson and the 15 minutes at the end of the presentations are for Q&A to all speakers. With a 45 minutes length Roundtables are structurally more flexible and inciting dialectics. The final schedule will include all details connected with the art events starting on September 9, 2025.

All events of the TTT2025 Ljubljana program days 9-12 September, 2025 take place at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, 1000 Ljubljana. Besides these events, TTT2025 Ljubljana presents on 13 September, 2025, a special artshow at the Karst region.

Updated: 08-03-2025

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Wednesday, September 10th 2025
08:00-09:00	Registration	Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00-09:15	Conference welcome greetings	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
09:15-10:00	Roundtable 1: Slovenian Contingency Opening, chairperson Uroš Veber 09:30 KSEVT Collection & More-than-Planet online library Miha Turšič 09:45 Cirkulacija 2 Tatiana Kocmur	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:00	Session 1A: Karst Welcome, chair TBC Q&A: 11:15 10:15 On Awkward Intimacy: Affective Encounters with Greenhouse Automation Agnieszka Wołodźko, Špela Petrič 10:30 GROUNDSWELL Andrew Carnie 10:45 Soil Stations Audrey Rangel Aguirre 11:00 Swamp_Matter: Exploring Ecological Thresholds through Art, Science, and Speculative Narratives Eva Garibaldi, Ana Laura Richter	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:00	Session 1B: Speleothem Welcome, chair TBC Q&A: 11:15 10:15 Performing and Exhibiting Immersive Virtual Experience Queering of Digital Heritage Assets: A Framework for Artistic Research and Practice Adnan Hadziselimovic 10:30 Danube body of water. Trans corporeality of Danube River protection Andrea Gogova 10:45 Heimkehren Anna Kedziora 11:00 Rage Against the Archive Anshul Roy	Komuna - Kino Šiška
11:30	Session 2A: Eukaryote Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 12:45 11:45 The politics of striptease: taboos, transgressions, and post-pandemic heterotopias Anastasios Tsakaliadis-Sotirakoglou 12:00 Leaky Networks and Bareback Browsing: Towards reclaiming Promiscuity Online Arianna Ferrari 12:15 ALMA de Bruixes - Exploring Biotechnologies as Erotic and Liberating Practices Cristina Dezi, Giulia Τomasello, Isabel Farina 12:30 Pleasure Expansion: Building ethical frameworks for global AI pleasure applications Lex Gillon	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
11:30	Session 2B: Alveolate Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 12:45 11:45 FOOD = ART = LIFE: Radical Hospitality Alejandro Chellet 12:00 VJ Clew: Encouraging vermicomposting through interactive visual media and other senses Andrew Paterson 12:15 Between Life and Non-Life: The Temporal Cycles of Storied Matter in Eco- and Bioart Başak Ağın, Tuçe Erel 12:30 as we synch Dr. Lea Luka Sikau, Denisa Pubalova	Komuna - Kino Šiška
13:00	Lunch break	Café Kino Šiška
14:00	Session 3A: Troglophiles Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 15:15 14:15 sacrificial holes of devolution Cynthia Blanchette 14:30 Noise, Parasites, and Digital Coexistence: An STS Approach to Theo Triantafyllidis' Ork Haus Stella Sofokleous, Eleni Gemtou, Johannis Tsoumas 14:45 Symbiosis, Parasitism, and the Microbiome: Exploring Multispecies Networks for Cultural and Ecological Renewal Helmi Hardian, Angela Sunaryo 15:00 Queering the Depths: Anglerfish, Crip Desire, and the Challenging Concept of Sexual Parasitism Ewelina Jarosz	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
14:00	Session 3B: Troglophobes Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 15:15 14:15 Death, vulnerable Margherita Pevere 14:30 Transgressing Death, Transgressing Grief Marietta Radomska 14:45 Aestheticized and Necrogamic Themes in Contemporary Art Maria Athanasekou 15:00 From Kusōzu to Microbial Forensics: Exploring Thanatomorphosis in Art and Science François-Joseph Lapointe	Komuna - Kino Šiška
15:30	Session 4A: Stramenopiles Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 16:45 15:45 Metaleptic Performativity and Its Aesthetic Properties: Art, Technology, Biomedia, Excretions and Fluids Olga Majcen Linn, Sunčica Ostoić 16:00 Flies, Blood, and Rot: Exploring ‘Improper’ Entanglements in Search of Ecstatic Decay KS Brewer 16:15 Post-Human Molecular Enhancement: Exploring Aesthetics and Biopolitics in Life Engineering Elena Giulia Abbiatici 16:30 The Flow of Blood and Data: Parallels in Vital Systems and Symbolic Narratives Evangelia Diamantopoulou, Penny Papageorgopoulou	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
15:30	Session 4B: Dinoflagellates Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 16:45 15:45 Scientific Fraud as Science Fiction: Data Fabrication and the Construction of an Idealised Reality Yun Wah Lam 16:00 The Distributed Narratives of Science: The Expanse of Possible, Historical, and Future Modes of Publication Erik Zepka 16:15 Casting a Spell in Computational Regimes: Arianna Forte 16:30 Cyborg Attunement: (re)Orientation, Ritual, and Embodiment in Long Duration Spaceflight Jordan Kokot, Vivekanand Pandey Vimal	Komuna - Kino Šiška
17:00-17:30	Coffee break	Café Kino Šiška
17:30	Session 5A: Endogeon Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 18:45 17:45 ExUtero technologies and Feminised Protein Ionat Zurr, Cristin Millett, Cynthia White 18:00 Tattoo or Taboo? A Transgressive Tissue Engineering Approach Laura Sordini, Isadora Regis 18:15 A Chat with Hystera Irini Athanassakis 18:30 trans.fail perspectives: community, body, and agency (chapter /combodagen) Luka Prinčič	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
17:30	Session 5B: Hypogeon Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 18:45 17:45 Every Shift is a Work of Art: Notes On Audio Transcription for AI Projects Mihai Bacaran 18:00 Performance between Processing and Re-enactment: Human-AI Sense of Agency Barbora Kundracikova 18:15 MOTHER Beverley Hood 18:30 Your content has been removed: Nudity, needles and AI against censorship edna _	Komuna - Kino Šiška
19:00	Roundtable 2: DIY Garage GMO Baby Production Opening, chairperson TBC 19:15 TTTlabs/TTTfellows at TTT 2025 - DIY Garage GMO Baby Production Rewilding Cultures BioFeral.BeachCamp Adam Zaretsky 19:30 Stamping Genes: A Speculative Union of Flamingo, Urchin, and Rice Kristin Lucas, Nathalie Dubois Calero	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
Thursday, September 11th 2025
08:00-09:00	Registration	Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00	Session 6A: Ciliophora Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 10:15 09:15 Walking on Cures/Curses: How the Ritual of Herb Scattering, Breathing, and Memorizing Mediate Collective Trauma and Public Healing Juntao Yang 09:30 ‘TAMATA / An ode to broken bodies.’ An interactive installation on gender-based violence Caterina Antonopoulou 09:45 Trans:plant (Being Beyond Belonging) Iona Pelovska 10:00 IMARA: DIY Biofabrication and Feminist Worldbuilding WhiteFeather Hunter	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
09:00	Session 6B: Apicomplexa Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 10:15 09:15 Ready-wild, How and why make the wild a work of art, From Alan Tod forest artist to Julien Isoré Julien Isoré 09:30 Transgressing realms: Liminal care and the impossible feat of sinking into soil Nora S. Vaage 09:45 Echoes and Future Whispering in Haunted Times Marie-Luise Meister 10:00 The Sacred Underground: Earthworms, Belonging, and the American Mythos Lauren Ruiz	Komuna - Kino Šiška
10:30	Session 7A: Magmatic Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 11:45 10:45 Transcendental Elizabeth Littlejohn, Daniela Brill Estrada, Monica C. LoCascio 11:00 Embracing the Monster. Queer Mermaids in Contemporary Art Jessica Ullrich 11:15 Of Peas and People Verena Friedrich 11:30 Queer Evolutions: Decolonising the Gaze and Reimagining Extinct Species (Working Title) Tane_Tanya Laketić	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:30	Session 7B: Metamorphic Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 11:45 10:45 Bodyscapes: Uterine Polyps, Cysts, and the Aesthetics of Self-Surveillance Laura Rodriguez, Amos Peled 11:00 Signs of the Times: The Sisyphean Performance of Commemorating Karolina Żyniewicz 11:15 Viral Load: on post-truth, ontological security and anti-vaxxers Callum Siegmund, Paul Sutherland 11:30 Machine Learning Pervert Tech: AI Paraphilias and the Birth of Algorithmic Fetishes Adam Zaretsky	Komuna - Kino Šiška
12:00	Roundtable 3: Conversations Amongst Odd Kin: Science Fiction, BioArt, and Disability Opening, chairperson TBC 12:15 Conversations Amongst Odd Kin: Science Fiction, BioArt, and Disability Marta de Menezes, Efrat Gold, Cosima Herter, Kathy High	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
12:45	Lunch break	Café Kino Šiška
14:00	Session 8A: Mitosis Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 15:15 14:15 Human and Nonhuman Ethology in Analogue/Experimental Filmmaking: Inter-Species Collaboration and Ecological Narratives Müge Yildiz 14:30 On interspecies communication; the connections between human and bird languages Leena Saarinen 14:45 Towards radical complexity of becoming others Fara Peluso 15:00 on the monster road Pepa Ivanova	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
14:00	Session 8B: Apoptosis Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 15:15 14:15 Roscoffensis I/O - did the sea worm want to go to space? Ewen Chardronnet, Miha Godec 14:30 Living Hybrids: Biohybrid Artifacts as Agents of Ecological Restoration and Mutation Vivien Roussel 14:45 “Incub.IA.tor”: Bio-engineering and healthcare challenges about plants based organs and I.A prediction Alizee Armet 15:00 Project Transmutations "DNA, Bodies, and Technologies of Transgression: A Critique of Identity Standardization in the Era of Bio-Information" Maria Jose Rios Araya, Ricardo Vega Mora	Komuna - Kino Šiška
15:30	Session 9A: Tephra Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 16:45 15:45 Karst to Cosmos: Reimagining Ecosystems and Ecological Fragility in Space Narratives with Astrotop_X pETER Purg 16:00 Consume Our Consumption Anya Koehne, Annan Zuo, Jiabao Li 16:15 Studies in Colour & Flora Jude Abu Zaineh 16:30 Fluid Boundaries of the Adriatic Avant-Garde: Transgression, Ecology, and Decolonized Narratives Kristina Pranjić	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
15:30	Session 9B: Pumice Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 16:45 15:45 Healing Suture Kit for surgery simulation Aisen Chacin 16:00 Mouth as Provocation: Hacking Interfaces and Transgressing Ableism in XR Puneet Jain 16:15 Desludging the Artifecal in AI Praba Pilar 16:30 ©HeLa - Copyright Henrietta Lacks Georg Tremmel	Komuna - Kino Šiška
17:00-17:30	Coffee break	Café Kino Šiška
17:30	Session 10A: Diatoms Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 18:45 17:45 Catharsis in Horror: Motherhood, Violence, and Liminal Representations Christine Bruening 18:00 Perpetual Laughter in the Sight of the Ridiculous. Defining a meta-Agelast Ioannis Melanitis 18:15 Tears for Lost Frequencies Monica Duncan, Senem Pirler 18:30 Comic and absurd aspects of destruction in robotic art (Jean Tinguely and Survival Research Labs) Natalia Fedorova	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
17:30	Session 10B: Homologs Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 18:45 17:45 Symbiony: The definitive exploration of the symbiotic harmony of the vaginal microbiome, based on its environment. Mehrta Shirzadian 18:00 Intersex Christina Mitsani 18:15 Confessions of a body in configuration Marco Donnarumma 18:30 Eco-Semiotics as Method: Exploring More-than-Human Knowledge Gathering Daria Testo, Dauren Kaliaskar, Laura Rodriguez	Komuna - Kino Šiška
19:00	Roundtable 4: เหลู้าบ แลบ - Laab Lu Lao CoLaboratory Opening, chairperson TBC 19:15 เหลู้าบ แลบ - Laab Lu Lao CoLaboratory Marc Dusseiller, Jirapat "Bos" Thaweechuen, Bora Hong, Helmi Hardian, Weeratouch "Wave" Pongruengkiat, Wei Chieh Shih	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
Friday, September 12th 2025
08:00-09:00	Registration	Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00	Session 11A: Moffetes Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 10:15 09:15 The Futurity of Transglothing Tatjana Petzer 09:15 Matthew Barney’s Catasterism in Three Movements. Transductive Ecosophies for the Anthropocene. Radek Przedpełski 09:30 Bioart as Critical Heritage Practice Olga Timurgalieva 09:45 Empirical Monsters. Rethinking Boundaries Between Ecology and Media Morten Søndergaard, Anna Nacher	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
09:00	Session 11B: Fumaroles Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 10:15 09:15 Blurring Boundaries Between Human and Machine Creativity: Can AI-generated images achieve emotional resonance comparable to human-created works? Laida Limniati, Minas Pergantis, Aristeidis Lamprogeorgos, Andreas Giannakoulopoulos 09:30 Computational Transcendence: Semiotic Pathways and an Emerging Quantum-Digital Art Silvia Laurentiz, Clarissa Ribeiro 09:45 Artificial Synaesthesia in Tension Between Sonic And Architectural Composition: Intelligent Computational Infrastructure and Stochastic Redundancy Yidi Wang 10:00 Media Regimes of Parasitism: Human and Non-Human Agents Natalia Vereshchagina	Komuna - Kino Šiška
10:30	Session 12A: Activin Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 11:45 10:45 Green Open Food Evolution - Or how to become Homo Photosyntheticus Maya Minder 11:00 Lygia Clark and her pedagogical (and ecological) practices in the 1970s. Marcos Reigota 11:15 METABOLOME Hege Tapio 11:30 Tackling harsh environmental challenges through applied Pantropy and bioengineering (BioArt perspectives) Gjino Šutić	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:30	Session 12B: Inhibin Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 11:45 10:45 “Reflections on the Mirror”: Investigating Spatial Anxiety in Installation Art Through Body-related and Environment-related Perceptual Modalities. Ioustini Antigoni Eloul, Marianne Strapatsakis 11:00 Embodiment and 4E Cognition in Virtual Reality: Expanding Perception through Immersive Art Jelena Guga 11:15 On Artists and Inventors: Understanding the politics of invention through art and technology Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano 11:30 Variable Screen Project: Decomposable and Edible Screen Yosaku Matsutani, Yuki Hayashi, Hana Sawada	Komuna - Kino Šiška
12:00	Roundtable 5: The Sweetest Taboo Opening, chairperson TBC 12:15 'The Sweetest Taboo' - Roundtable Discussion Markela Koniordou, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Dejan Markovic, Carolina Páez Vélez, Zahra Mirza, Ethan Vincent, Márton Emil Tóth	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
12:45	Lunch break	Café Kino Šiška
14:00	Session 13A: Orogeny Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 15:15 14:15 Cosmic Horror and Cinematic Rebellion: The Aesthetics of Excess in Andrzej Żuławski’s The Silver Globe Despoina Poulou 14:30 Critical Mass : Soft Robotics as an undoing of Fascist Automata Jimi DePriest 14:45 Reading the Russian Avant-Garde: Beller, Rancière, Groys Erik Vogt 15:00 Media and Ritual: The Story of Mutual Evolution Anastasiya Maksymchuk	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
14:00	Session 13B: Isostasy Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 15:15 14:15 Slime Machine matilde sartori 14:30 Unhuman: an essay on the monstrosity of the future body María Nonantzin (MAGENTA) Martínez Bautista 14:45 Mechanisms of care: transgressing online censorship through playful artistic interventions Liza Shkirando 15:00 Plantoverse: Rethinking Perception Through Plant Optics Alexandra Burnusuz, Mariia Moshchenskaia, Veronika Prizova	Komuna - Kino Šiška
15:30	Session 14A: Delocation Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 16:45 15:45 The Landscape as a Site of Migration and Heterotopic Transformation in Film Practice Iakovos Panagopoulos 16:00 A Line in the Sand Michael Valiquette 16:15 BioQuantum Record: Chiral Handshakes Between Terrestrial Extremophiles and Their Extraterrestrial Counterparts - An Arts-Science Collaboration Anna Steward, Sebastian Gfellner 16:30 Embodying Non-Human Perspectives to Design with Multispecies Empathy Ceren Ozgen, Jiabao Li	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
15:30	Session 14B: Resonance Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 16:45 15:45 Dust to Dust Lyndsey Walsh 16:00 The dust that will keep you alive, the dust that kills, the dust you return Line Krom, Brian Degger 16:15 Plasticine body: a place to dwell Eva Debevc 16:30 How a spectral realm of vision fuses tarmac, human skin and paper Anna Olszewska	Komuna - Kino Šiška
17:00-17:30	Coffee break	Café Kino Šiška
17:30	Session 15A: Syntopy Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 18:45 17:45 Auto-Pedophilia and the Eroticization of the Child-Self in Art Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina 18:00 B.O.B. Michele Marchetti, David Genchi 18:00 Gabapentin Chic and the Aesthetics of Biohacking Normality Glikery Ulunov 18:15 Postcapitalist Imaginaries and Expanded Media Art Practice Eric Drasin	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
17:30	Session 15B: Parapatry Welcome, Chair TBC Q&A 18:45 17:45 Etymological transgression and colonial taboos: the post-human hypothesis and the risk of western narcissism Theodore Kabouridis 18:00 The Non-Image as Method John Santomieri 18:15 I always write “knowledges”, even it is not grammatically correct. Ingrid Cogne 18:30 Coral Dialogues: An Enactive Biosemiotic Approach to Interspecies Communication Annan Zuo, Augustas Lapinskas	Komuna - Kino Šiška
19:00	Roundtable 6: Humming to Myself Opening, chairperson TBC 19:15 Exoplanetary Poetry: experimental chemistry as a universal language for alien communication Julie-Michèle Morin, Daniela Brill Estrada, Bart Kuipers	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
20:00	Farewell	Katedrala - Kino Šiška

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