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The Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) will host a joint talk on October 23 at 11:00 AM by Dr. Prof. Dalila Honorato and Adam Zaretsky, PhD. Both are known for their unique and transgressive approaches to the intersection of art and biology. 

Dr. Heidi Hehnly-Chang (USA) and Dr. Boryana Rossa (Bulgaria/USA) from Syracuse University have been selected to participate in TTTfellows: Art and Science Residency 2024 Fall taking place on 23 September - 4 October 2024 (online) and 7-18 October 2024 in-person on the island of Corfu. TTTfellows is organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, within the framework of Rewilding Cultures, a project co-financed by the European Union, and will be hosted in collaboration with the Corfu Central Public Historical Library - Corfu Tech Lab, the Corfu Aquarium and BiHELab.

We invite you to the presentation of the postdoctoral research conducted by Dr. Eleni Kolliopoulou, a research member of InArts Lab, which took place from October 2022 to September 2024. 

With that in mind, four Laboratories from three Greek Universities (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of the Aegean, and Ionian University) have collaborated to organise the biannual International Digital Storytelling Festival (DST-Zakynthos) in Zakynthos between the biannual International DST conferences.

Assoc. Prof. Dalila Honorato, Director of the InArts Lab at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, and Dr. Adam Zaretsky, a member of the InArts Lab working group in the Rewilding Cultures project, participate as guest-speakers at the Bio Art Forum taking place in Novi Sad, Serbia, on May 16-18, 2024, as part of the project Bio Awaking. 

InArts Lab - Department of Audio & Visual Arts members’ Styliani-Anna Klimatsaki, PhD Candidate, and Dalila Honorato, Associate Professor, participate with the article "Taboo in world cinema: Female protagonists in incestuous relationships” in Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research 21:2, by the independent academic publishing house Intellect.

The Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts Lab) of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, in collaboration with CorfuTechLab and the Public Central Historic Library of Corfu and with the support of the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece is holding a training session on: "Art and Activism: a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Greek women artists.", on Wednesday, 17/01/2024, 09:30 - 13:30.

Assoc. Prof. Dalila Honorato, Director of the InArts Lab at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, participates as a member of the organizing committee at the conference FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology 2024 taking place in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on June 23-29, 2024.

The complete program of activities of TTT2023 Malta taking place at the Palazzo de la Salle in Valletta on September 26-29th, 2023 has just been published. Almost 200 speakers from more than 30 countries focused (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.

While the call for proposals to the conference Taboo – Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science 2023 taking place at the Malta Society of Arts in Valletta is open until the end of January 2023, the main core of the proceedings of TTT2020 Vienna/Online have just been released in an open access publication in digital format (e-Book), with ISBN number 978-960-7260-70-3.

The fifth international conference Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science will take place September 27–29, 2023 in Valletta, Malta. 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. The conference language is English. Proposals must be sent electronically through the EasyChair submissions system until January 31st, 2023.

Adam Zaretsky, Ph.D., a member of the InArts Lab working group in the Rewilding Cultures project, and a post-doctoral researcher in the Hub of Art Laboratories (HAL) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, was among the participants in the recent Electric Wonderland summer camp (Croatia, 5-11 August), an event that was carried out within the framework of the abovementioned project. Rewilding cultures was developed by the Feral Labs Network and was co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, bringing together eight institutions from as many countries, all with a shared interest in the confluence of art, science and technology.