Call for papers and artwork presentations for the International Conference:
"TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE in Art & Science" Friday 20th & Saturday 21th May 2016, Ionian University, Corfu Audiovisual Arts Festival Official Website: avarts.ionio.gr/festival Audiovisual Arts Festival 2016 Call for Papers: avarts.ionio.gr/festival/2016/en/conference Online Submissions to the 2016 Conference: easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avfest2016 Deadline CFP: February 29, 2016 The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University organizes a two-day interdisciplinary conference with theoretical and artwork presentations under the theme of “Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence”, focusing on questions about the nature of the forbidden and the liminal as expressed in science and art. Since the beginning of time, taboo has traced the edges of experience. As with Icarus, whose excitement made him forget the restrictions of his man-made wings leading to his fall towards death, humans have always been regulated by a set of rules defining the borders of knowledge and experimentation. What constitutes the limits of the accepted, however, has to be read within the ethical horizons of a specific time frame. It is not uncommon that what seems outrageously transgressive in one moment, can eventually transcend to a commonplace practice. Limits are continuously put to test as contemporary scientific experimentation pushes forward our idea of the world, in quest for answers but also for solutions allowing us to overcome the problems present in our lives. Progress in fields such as the human genome editing, the creation of cyborgs and any human-like artificial intelligence, are only few examples presently generating double-edged questions on the nature of humanity. One could easily recall Dr. Frankenstein, whose ambition to solve the mystery of life and death ends up revealing the threshold of control between creator and creation. As we experience a gradual, but substantial, de-centering from the humanistic values, scientific experimentation bears potential turmoil; its advances are essentially stretching the borders of our experience of the world and ourselves, mostly revealing the fragility of social values. However, isn’t this also the essential role of Art? More than ever before, isn’t this the point where science intrinsically meet with the arts? Arts apply critical questions to our certainties, and it is not a coincidence that in the last decades so many artists have focused on the human body as their primary medium for investigation. In the merging of science and art opens a space for creative transformation. Art’s playfully transgressive nature offers creative bypasses to the scientific grammar and expands the dialogue with its openness to a multiplicity towards the new. Nevertheless, art – albeit its originary affinity with the taboo – is never completely liberated from moral considerations. Deeply involved into this lively discourse on the nature of the taboo, art becomes the very domain of contemporary experimentation with transgression, in order to provoke and sparkle discourse, catalyzing possible forms of transcendence. Can this relation bear a force of liberating? Is there such a thing as incentive prohibitions and who/what defines the borders of accepted identities and ideologies? Immersing into the impure realm of limits and liminalities, one might trace the mental structures filtering our experience of the world, ultimately opening space for creative transformations through the mixing of art and science. Submissions are welcome both from scientific fields acquainted to audio & visual technology and/or new media theory as well as from the diverse fields of artistic expression related with scientific issues. Suggested, but not exclusive topics, are those associated, from an artistic, scientific or ethical perspective, with: Art as subversion and art as transcendence Dirt, disgust and the polluted The body machine and the animal body Animal rights in Art and Science Taboos in technological applications and transcendence in art creation Tradition, experimental use of technology and contemporary aesthetics Internet, new dimensions of “touching” and control Post gender, transgressive identities and social models Transgression, subculture and ritual Trance culture, psychotropic substances and socialization Attraction, eroticism and techno-reproduction Dogmas’ transformations and dissolutions in present times Educational environments and new practices of space transcendence Plastic surgery and bοdy modification-body alteration Gene editing, mutation and eugenics Psycho-pharmacology, somatechnology and post-humanism Human-like machines, uncanny valley and sex technology Nanotechnology, skin and other dimensions of the body Neurophysiology and cybernetic art Art and neuroscience Abstract submission Proposals are submitted for consideration by the members of the scientific & artistic committee. Each proposal should include an abstract (which should be no more than 500 words), presentation title, author(s) name(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es) and up to 5 keywords. Submissions must be sent electronically through easychair: avfest2016. The working languages of the conference are Greek and English. Information for presenters Once accepted, a draft presentation, a short biography and the electronic presentation file will be requested for submission by author(s) before the conference start date. Contributions must not exceed a 20 minutes presentation time, allowing another 10 minutes for further discussion. Facilities include typical audiovisual equipment for electronic presentations (PC, video projector and stereo speakers). The conference proceedings will be published in digital format (e-Book) with ISBN number. Paper formatting instructions will be provided to the presenting authors together with the conference folder. Important dates: Deadline for submitting abstracts: until February 29, 2016 Response date in case of acceptance: until March 15, 2016 Deadline for submitting CV: until March 31, 2016 Conference programme announcement: until April 10, 2016 Deadline for submitting draft text and presentation file: until April 30, 2016 Conference schedule date: May 20-21, 2016 Deadline for submitting final text for proceedings: September 1, 2016 Venue: Ionian University, in the island of Corfu (Greece). Ionian University, in collaboration with local hotels and restaurants, has arranged for special rates for the speakers. Details regarding accommodation and meals will be sent along with the acceptance response. Scientific & Artistic Committee: Panagiotes Anastasiades, University of Crete, Greece Robert Cahen, video artist, France Konstantinos Christidis, University of Crete, Greece Renata Dalianoudi, University of Ioannina, Greece Manos Danezis, University of Athens, Greece Andreas Floros, Ionian University, Greece Marco Maria Gazzano, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy Anastasia Georgaki, University of Athens, Greece Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Ionian University, Greece Elena Hamalidi, Ionian University, Greece Anna Hatziyiannaki, Art Historian, chairwoman ARTOPOS for Art and Technology, Greece Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece Andreas Ioannidis, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece Anna Kafetsi, art historian, Greece Elena von Kassel, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France Nikolaos-Grigorios Kanellopoulos, Ionian University, Greece Apostolos Loufopoulos, Ionian University, Greece Maria Marangou, art critic and curator, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete,Greece Eirini Mavrommati, Hellenic Open University, Greece Marc Mercier, art historian and Director of the Festival Instant Video, France Brenda Murphy, University of Malta, Malta Olga Pombo, Center for Philosophy of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal Ingeborg Reichle, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Marianne Strapatsakis, Ionian University, Greece Ioannis Zannos, Ionian University, Greece Adam Zaretsky, Marist College, NY, USA Organizing Committee: Dalila Honorato, Ionian University (Head) Apostolos Loufopoulos, Ionian University Thomas Valianatos, Ionian University Athanasia Vidali, Ionian University
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