Interdisciplinary Conference

TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

in Art & Science

9-13 September 2025, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

PROGRAM

The 2nd 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 10 September, TTT2025 Ljubljana conference program is structured into 30 sessions, presenting as well six roundtables, plus showreels, screenings, 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.

TTT2025 Ljubljana is proud to present an exciting program of art events opening on 9 September, "Coining Utopias", running throughout the conference at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, 1000 Ljubljana. Besides this artshow, TTT2025 Ljubljana program presents on 10-12 September, "Forensic Performativity", organized by Kapelica Gallery, Likozarjeva 1, 1000 Ljubljana, on 10 September, "Mestna Jaga: A Decade of Urban Hunting", organized by Cirkulacija 2, Podhod Ajdovščina 2, 1000 Ljubljana, and on 13 September, "Lament", co-organized with Projekt Atol, Ljubljana, and Pixxelpoint 2025 festival in the context of GO!2025 European Capital of Culture Nova Gorica - Gorizia, at the Karst region.

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Tuesday, September 9th 2025
18:00	Grand Opening	Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
18:00-22:00	Exhibition A Line in the Sand Michael Valiquette The River Running Through Us Andrew Carnie Amalgamated Landscapses Darya Warner Neon Biotope Angelina Almukhametova Etudes for birds Leena Saarinen Decoy Leena Saarinen Birdsong Leena Saarinen Studies in Colour & Flora Jude Abu Zaineh AQUADISIA Version 2.0: Lubricating the Public Sentient Machine Stephanie Rothenberg Operational Bodies: The Tomato Tasted Like Automation of Care Špela Petrič Octet Demi Hu, Colin Nations, Nhu Phung, Jiabao Li SHIOPI Melisa Cano [ir]reverent: Miracles on Demand Adam Brown	Kamera - Kino Šiška
18:00-22:00	Reels BioFeral Acts Adam Zaretsky Mestna Jaga - A decade of Urban Hunting Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
18:30	Performances AQUADISIA Version 2.0: Lubricating the Public Sentient Machine {Performance/performative talk created for 2025 TTT Ljubljana} Stephanie Rothenberg	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
19:00-22:00	Projections Entangled Cities Stanza . Things I Have Seen in My dreams João Pedro Oliveira AI in the Sky Laura Cinti MOTHER Beverley Hood Non/Living Müge Yildiz Tears for Lost Frequencies Senem Pirler, Monica Duncan Annihilation Yukang Tao Worm Pornography Ian Haig	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
20:30	Performances Blots diffusion: what do you see? edna _	Komuna - Kino Šiška
21:00	Performances Reflections Through the Pre-Individual Mirror Dann Disciglio	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
21:30	Performances trans.fail/combodagen Luka Prinčič	Komuna - Kino Šiška
Wednesday, September 10th 2025
08:00-09:00	Registration	Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00	Conference welcome greetings Members of organizing committee: Dalila Honorato, Uroš Veber, Peter Purg Representants of hosting institution: Jasna Jernejšek	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00	Exhibition A Line in the Sand Michael Valiquette The River Running Through Us Andrew Carnie Amalgamated Landscapses Darya Warner Neon Biotope Angelina Almukhametova Etudes for birds Leena Saarinen Decoy Leena Saarinen Birdsong Leena Saarinen Studies in Colour & Flora Jude Abu Zaineh AQUADISIA Version 2.0: Lubricating the Public Sentient Machine Stephanie Rothenberg Operational Bodies: The Tomato Tasted Like Automation of Care Špela Petrič Octet Demi Hu, Colin Nations, Nhu Phung, Jiabao Li SHIOPI Melisa Cano [ir]reverent: Miracles on Demand Adam Brown	Kamera - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00	Reels BioFeral Acts Adam Zaretsky Mestna Jaga - A decade of Urban Hunting Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
09:15-10:00	Roundtable 1: Slovenian Contingency Opening, Chair Uroš Veber 10:00 Closing This roundtable brings together key figures from Slovenia's contemporary art and cultural landscape to examine local practices within global contexts. Our panelists represent diverse institutional and artistic approaches that challenge conventional boundaries between performance, technology, and social engagement. Together, these practitioners will discuss how Slovenian cultural contingency operates within broader European and international networks, examining questions of locality, collaboration, and critical artistic practice in contemporary contexts. Via Negativa Bojan Jablanovec Kapelica Jurij Krpan KSEVT Collection & More-than-Planet online library Miha Turšič Cirkulacija 2 Tatiana Kocmur	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
10:00	Session 1A: Karst Welcome, chair Andrew Paterson 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 Nicolas Van Achter - Esteban Lloret Linares 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 Margherita Pevere 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 Pleasure Expansion: Building ethical frameworks for global AI pleasure applications Lex Gillon 12:30 Cassiopeia's Secret - The Future of Intimacy in Space Rudolf Arnold	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
11:30	Session 2B: Alveolate Welcome, Chair Jessica Ullrich 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 Gryf 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
13:00	Performances A.v.p. Alba viridi pythonissan - the Cyborg Woman-Plant-Machine Experiment Carolina Sudati, Leonardo Javier Ceolin, Jose Augusto Zagatto Barrichello, Sergio Eduardo de Souza Moraes Filho	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
14:00	Session 3A: Troglophiles Welcome, Chair Olga Majcen Linn 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 Anna Kedziora 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 Jiabao Li 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 Mihai Bacaran 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	Coffee break	Café Kino Šiška
17:00	Performances Stamping Genes: Mobile Lab Kristin Lucas, Nathalie Dubois Calero	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
17:30	Session 5A: Endogeon Welcome, Chair Marietta Radomska 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 Clarissa Ribeiro 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 - Artwork Presentation edna _	Komuna - Kino Šiška
19:00	Roundtable 2: DIY Garage GMO Baby Production Opening, Chair: Adam Zaretsky 19:45 Closing How do ferality and rewilding inform reproductive processes—from ovum/sperm collection through germline editing to cryogenic banking and mutant embryo studies? This roundtable gathers participants from the three TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamps, a series of ART Camps hands-on IVF approach integrating audiovisual art, novel apparatus prototyping, and bio-feral performance experiments. Our "Do it With Others" ART Camps developed in 2023-2024 entitled Repro-Rebirthing Retreat, Repro-Zombie Studies, and Repro-FlaOctomingopus, merged artistic practice with reproductive technologies. Today's roundtable examines how these experimental approaches challenge conventional bioethics, democratize reproductive technologies, and open new possibilities for creative intervention outside traditional institutional frameworks. Lyndsey Walsh, Aisen Chacin, Clarissa Ribeiro, Praba Pilar, Elizabeth Littlejohn, WhiteFeather Hunter	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
20:00	Performances The Intimacy of Otherness Jatun Risba	Komuna - Kino Šiška
21:00-23:59	Performances Forensic Performativity Betina Habjanič, Dorotea Dolinšek, Maja Smrekar	Kapelica Gallery
21:00-23:59	Performances Mestna jaga: A decade of Urban Hunting Marc Dusseiller	Cirkulacija 2
Thursday, September 11th 2025
08:00-09:00	Registration	Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00	Session 6A: Ciliophora Welcome, Chair Zahra Mirza 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 Dauren Kaliaskar 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 ALMA de Bruixes - Exploring Biotechnologies as Erotic and Liberating Practices Cristina Dezi, Giulia Τomasello, Isabel Farina 10:00 The Sacred Underground: Earthworms, Belonging, and the American Mythos Lauren Ruiz	Komuna - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00	Exhibition A Line in the Sand Michael Valiquette The River Running Through Us Andrew Carnie Amalgamated Landscapses Darya Warner Neon Biotope Angelina Almukhametova Etudes for birds Leena Saarinen Decoy Leena Saarinen Birdsong Leena Saarinen Studies in Colour & Flora Jude Abu Zaineh AQUADISIA Version 2.0: Lubricating the Public Sentient Machine Stephanie Rothenberg Operational Bodies: The Tomato Tasted Like Automation of Care Špela Petrič Octet Demi Hu, Colin Nations, Nhu Phung, Jiabao Li SHIOPI Melisa Cano [ir]reverent: Miracles on Demand Adam Brown	Kamera - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00	Reels BioFeral Acts Adam Zaretsky Mestna Jaga - A decade of Urban Hunting Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
10:30	Session 7A: Magmatic Welcome, Chair WhiteFeather Hunter 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 Boryana Rossa 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: Art as Target: Context, Consent, and Control Opening, Chair Sunčica Ostoić 12:45 Closing Across Europe and beyond, artists face growing threats as their works are stripped of context and weaponized for ideological purposes. This roundtable addresses the political misuse of artistic expression, the risks of decontextualization, and the urgency of defending narrative agency and artistic freedom in increasingly hostile environments. Maja Smrekar’s internationally exhibited K-9 Topology project—praised in artistic and scientific circles alike—was recently misused in a far-right campaign in Slovenia, escalating into an unprecedented assault on her personhood and professional integrity. Together, the speakers will explore the complex entanglements between contemporary art, media ecologies, and propaganda, asking: How can artists reclaim control of their narratives? What forms of collective infrastructure and solidarity are needed? And what does it mean to protect artistic freedom in the age of weaponized aesthetics? Maja Smrekar, Jens Hauser, Mojca Kumerdej	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
12:45	Lunch break	Café Kino Šiška
13:00	Performances Empty Field: on habitability and diversity Kat Austen	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
14:00	Session 8A: Mitosis Welcome, Chair Karolina Żyniewicz 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 Kathy High 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 Stephanie Rothenberg 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 - Artwork Presentation 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 Marta de Menezes 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	Coffee break	Café Kino Šiška
17:00	Performances The Inconsumable Power of Showing Hole Max Lester	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
17:30	Session 10A: Diatoms Welcome, Chair Kristina Pranjić 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 Alizée Armet 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 Conversations Amongst Odd Kin: Science Fiction, BioArt, and Disability Marta de Menezes, Efrat Gold, Cosima Herter, Kathy High 18:00 Confessions of a body in configuration Marco Donnarumma 18:15 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, Chair Marc Dusseiller 19:45 Closing This panel broadens Art & Science concepts through global, cross-cultural perspectives within the hackteria network's Asian activities across Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. Following the January 2024 "do-it-with-others" open laboratory in Chiang Mai, the core team discusses how diverse cultures, religions, and artistic disciplines contribute to transcendent art/science practices. Projects ranged from alternative genetic engineering and traditional fermentation to collaborative graffiti and urban interventions. LLL refers to Laab (Thai spiced minced meat), Lu (meat with raw blood), and Lao (alcohol), representing cultural fusion in scientific exploration. Panelists from Switzerland, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, and Indonesia examine how differing worldviews and historic traditions can create truly global approaches to interdisciplinary practice, fostering dialogue between local audiences and international art-science communities. Jirapat "Bos" Thaweechuen, Bora Hong, Helmi Hardian, Weeratouch "Wave" Pongruengkiat, Wei Chieh Shih	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
20:00	Performances La Inteligencia Artifecal Praba Pilar	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
20:30	Performances ReVerie Pinyao Liu	Komuna - Kino Šiška
21:00-23:59	Performances Forensic Performativity Betina Habjanič, Dorotea Dolinšek, Maja Smrekar	Kapelica Gallery
Friday, September 12th 2025
08:00-09:00	Registration	Infopoint -Kino Šiška
09:00	Session 11A: Moffetes Welcome, Chair Darya Warner 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 Tuçe Erel 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
09:00-21:00	Exhibition A Line in the Sand Michael Valiquette The River Running Through Us Andrew Carnie Amalgamated Landscapses Darya Warner Neon Biotope Angelina Almukhametova Etudes for birds Leena Saarinen Decoy Leena Saarinen Birdsong Leena Saarinen Studies in Colour & Flora Jude Abu Zaineh AQUADISIA Version 2.0: Lubricating the Public Sentient Machine Stephanie Rothenberg Operational Bodies: The Tomato Tasted Like Automation of Care Špela Petrič Octet Demi Hu, Colin Nations, Nhu Phung, Jiabao Li SHIOPI Melisa Cano [ir]reverent: Miracles on Demand Adam Brown	Kamera - Kino Šiška
09:00-21:00	Reels BioFeral Acts Adam Zaretsky Mestna Jaga - A decade of Urban Hunting Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
10:30	Session 12A: Activin Welcome, Chair Lyndsey Walsh 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 Laida Limniati 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 12:45 Closing This interdisciplinary roundtable explores sugar as material substance, cultural metaphor, and hyperobject flowing through bodies, behaviors, economies, and ecosystems. Participants examine molecular bonds, colonial histories, metabolic pathways, supply chains, personal cravings, and global consequences. Topics include sugar's dual nature in edible sculptures and military rations (Alyagon Darr), cultural connections between sex, food, and sweets addressing masculinity and queerness taboos (Markovic), sweetness as linguistic power exploring "sugarcoating" and food racism (Koniordou), sugar addiction and fermented food alternatives (Páez Vélez), collapsology through Maillard reactions and a "sugarcoating" app (Mirza), sensory pleasure in collaborative video work (Vincent), and sugar's historical slavery ties with sustainable material potential (Tóth). Through diverse perspectives, the discussion examines sweet contradictions in pleasure, destruction, addiction, exploitation, and innovation. 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
13:00	Performances Consume Our Consumption: Culinary Adventures in the Pacific Garbage Patch Anya Koehne, Annan Zuo, Jiabao Li	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
13:30	Event on/scenity Cristina Dezi, Isabel Farina	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
14:00	Session 13A: Orogeny Welcome, Chair Hege Tapio 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 Gjino Šutić 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 Morten Søndergaard Q&A 16:45 15:45 Echoes and Future Whispering in Haunted Times Marie-Luise Meister 16:00 A Line in the Sand - Artwork Presentation 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 Ingrid Cogne 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	Coffee break	Café Kino Šiška
17:00	Event	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
17:30	Session 15A: Syntopy Welcome, Chair Polona Tratnik Q&A 18:45 17:45 Stamping Genes: A Speculative Union of Flamingo, Urchin, and Rice Kristin Lucas, Nathalie Dubois Calero 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 Robertina Sebjanic 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, Chair Dalila Honorato 19:45 Closing This provocative roundtable explores psychological territories, interplanetary communication, and cosmic phenomena, navigating liminal convergences. Stenslie and Cerpina examine auto-pedophilia and child-self eroticization in art, challenging memory and desire boundaries through Baudrillard and Kristeva's theories. Morin, Brill Estrada, and Kuipers present their SETI Institute project using experimental chemistry as universal alien communication language, co-authoring poetry with speculative AI extraterrestrials. Vesna discusses SUNFlower Plasma & the Solar MAXIMUM, an immersive performance connecting solar flares to human breath, exploring how magnetic disturbances ripple through ecosystems and collective psyche. Auto-Pedophilia and the Eroticization of the Child-Self in Art Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina Exoplanetary Poetry: experimental chemistry as a universal language for alien communication Julie-Michèle Morin, Daniela Brill Estrada, Bart Kuipers SUNFlower Plasma & the Solar MAXIMUM Victoria Vesna	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
20:30	Conference sessions closure Members of organizing committee: Dalila Honorato, Uroš Veber, Peter Purg Representants of hosting institution: Jasna Jernejšek	Katedrala - Kino Šiška
21:00-23:59	Performances Forensic Performativity Betina Habjanič, Dorotea Dolinšek, Maja Smrekar	Kapelica Gallery
Saturday, September 13th 2025
12:00-18:00	Exhibition A Line in the Sand Michael Valiquette 'The River Running Through Us' Andrew Carnie Amalgamated Landscapses Darya Warner Neon Biotope Angelina Almukhametova Etudes for birds Leena Saarinen Decoy Leena Saarinen Birdsong Leena Saarinen Studies in Colour & Flora Jude Abu Zaineh AQUADISIA Version 2.0: Lubricating the Public Sentient Machine {Performance/performative talk created for 2025 TTT Ljubljana} Stephanie Rothenberg Operational Bodies: The Tomato Tasted Like Automation of Care Špela Petrič	Kamera - Kino Šiška
12:00-18:00	Reels BioFeral Acts Adam Zaretsky Mestna Jaga - A decade of Urban Hunting Marc Dusseiller, Dominik Mahnic	Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
20:00-20:50	Performance Co-organized with Projekt Atol, Ljubljana, and Pixxelpoint 2025 festival in the context of GO!2025 European Capital of Culture Nova Gorica - Gorizia. Lament Margherita Pevere	Karst

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