23 September -18 October 2024
Taboo Transgression Transcendence Art & Science Residency
Corfu, GR + Online
TTTFellows: Heidi Hehnly-Chang, Boryana Rossa
TTToracle: Laura Splan
The Ionian University is now presenting the last of three TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC): NewRepro-FlaOctomingopus (NR-FO) - Non-Human Bioart/Bodyart on the Beach (NH-BB) taking place on Sept 15-25, 2024 on the island of Crete. TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC) is a durational highly speculative autonomous skill-share event of intense co-creation, co-education and co-development. In a time of extraordinary scientific advances and ethical dilemmas in the fields of bioinformatics, new reproductive technologies, transgenic germline alterations, and animal behavior studies, TTTlabs III: New Repro-FlaOctomingopus (NR-FO) - Non-Human Bioart/Bodyart on the Beach offers an invitation to rethink new reproductive technologies and concepts: artificial womb, birth control, ovum pickup, eco-burial, cryogenics, embryo grades, implantation/surrogacy, genital development, semi-living death studies, selective reduction, posthuman family planning, and transgenic germline tailoring. READ MORE
The international conference Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT) is an interdisciplinary and nomadic event, where both practitioners as well as theorists present and discuss the status of art-science and/or art & technology. TTT has been hosted in Greece (2016-2017), Mexico (2018), Austria-Online (2020), Malta (2023). The conference focuses (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, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. Topics explored in the TTT Conferences include: Biopunk, hybridity and aesthetics of mutation; Cyborg, augmentation, and bοdy modification; Chemistry of the mind, natural healers, and mind enhancement; Biotechnology, DIY&DIWO, and biohacking; Ethology, human and nonhuman; hybridity, mutations & aesthetics, gene editing; transgressive identities & social models; human-like machines & "uncanny valley" theory, Food taboo, disgust, indigestible, Biopolitics, displacement & resistance, Biotechnology, DIYbio & biohacking; Rewilding, degradation and restoration; Evolution, genetics, and plasticity; Post-gender, transgressive identities, and social models; Human sexual response, laws of attraction, and queer eroticism; Parasitology, symbiosis, and microbiome; Biopolitics, displacement, and resistance; Pandemic, bioterror, and scientific trust; Witchcraft, gender narrative, and history of science; Rewilding, degradation and restoration.
Co-funded for the first time by the Ionian University and the European Union, TTT2023 Malta organized within the framework of the project Rewilding Cultures (2022 – 2025) by the Feral Labs Network under the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Thanks to this project, TTT is extending its activities beyond the conference, to include a series of workshops (TTTlabs) and residencies (TTTfellows). The project is coordinated by Projekt Atol (SI) with partners Makery (FR), Catch (DK), Schmiede (AT), Bioart Society (FI), Cultivamos Cultura (PT), Ionian University (GR) and Radiona (HR).
The Ionian University is the coordinator partner of Feral Knowledge within Rewilding Cultures. The university, founded in 1984, has seven departments spread in the urban complex of Corfu and, since 2018, five departments in the islands Lefkada, Kefalonia and Zakynthos. The Ionian University, despite its quantitative dimension but also thanks to its qualitative elasticity in adaptability and fast flow of experimental ideas, has traditionally been in Greece the initiator of less represented fields of knowledge. The Ionian University joined the Feral Labs Network in 2021 through the initiator of TTT, faculty member Dalila Honorato, and collaborating artist Adam Zaretsky. With other members of the Interactive Arts Lab of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University they are the force behind the coordination of the activities proposed in this program including one conference, three labs, three fellowships and the edition of two books TTT2023 Proceedings and Feral NodeBook #3.
Adam Zaretsky, PhD, is the artistic director of TTTlabs and TTTfellows. He is a biomedia expert, Wet-Lab Artist & Practitioner mixing Ecology, Biotechnology, Nonhuman Relations, Body Performance and Gastronomy with an emphasis on transgenic human technology. Currently he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hub of Art Laboratories (HAL) of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University focusing on biomedia as dataart.
Dalila Honorato, PhD, is the scientific director of TTTlabs and TTTfellows and coordinator of the management and curatorial board of the conference TTT in Art & Science. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University where she is presently a member of the Audiovisual Arts Festival; Gender Equality; Library; and Deontology & Research Ethics committees.
