Session 1: Definitions (09:00-10:15)
Chair: Theodore Vlachos, Ionian University, Greece

1.1	Disappeared Histories: The Sacred and Profane Digital Object	Joshua Halberstam	City University of New York, USA
1.2	How Technology and Transgression prevent social stagnation	Elisa Decet	University of Birmingham, UK
1.3	Profanity and obscenity in the vernacular literary texts of Cyprus: Vasilis Michaelides’ To Palioman (The struggle)/πάλιωμαν as a mixed media installation	Evripides Zantides	Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Session 2: Statements in Hybrid Art (10:15-11:30)
Chair: Anna Hatziyiannaki, Art Historian, Greece
Break (11:30-12:00)

2.1	At the Edge of Human	Polona Tratnik	Alma Europaea - Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Slovenia
2.2	BioQueering Methods of Transgenesis	Adam Zaretsky	Marist University, USA
2.3	Impossible and Incompatible Bodies	Ian Haig	RMIT University, Australia

Session 3: Between Truth and Transgression: The shifting nature of the scientific image (15:45 -17:00)
Chair: Xenofon Bitsikas, University of Ioannina, Greece

3.1	Beyond Effect: Chromatic transgressions and the scientific image	Rob Kesseler	Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London, UK
3.2	Scientific images may also be trangressive. An epistemological approach	Olga Pombo	Center for Philosophy of Science of Lisbon University, Portugal
3.3	“The most profound is the skin” – tattoo and taboo	Catarina Nabais	Center for Philosophy of Science of Lisbon University, Portugal

Break (17:00-17:30)

Session 4: Representation (17:30-18:45)
Chair: Polyxeni Mantzou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

4.1	From Beardsley to Shelley: Sex, politics and transgressive readings of Lysistrata in England	Marina Kotzamani	University of the Peloponnese, Greece
4.2	«Mannequins Smell of Criminal Transgression». Hyperrealistic Dummies in Contemporary Visual Culture	Pietro Conte	Center for Philosophy of Science of Lisbon University, Portugal
4.3	OrgantradAR: Data Body Augmentation and Post-biological Organ Trade for Profit	Julian Stadon	Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Session 5: Forbidden(18:45-20:00)
Chair: Ioannis Deligiannis, Ionian University, Greece

5.1	Sturm Und Drang, The Return - Geniezeit Of The Posthuman	Penny Papageorgopoulou & Dimitris Charitos	Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
5.2	Human Robot Interaction in Manga and Anime: Can people fall in love with Robots?	Laida Limniati & Andreas Giannakoulopoulos	University of Helsinki, Finland Ionian University, Greece
5.3	BIO – LOGICS of ART. Poems questioning the Aesthetics and Linguistics of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)	Irini Athanassakis	Artist researcher, France

Conference Day 2

Session 6: Mutation (09:00-10:15)
Chair: Bill Psarras, Ionian University, Greece

6.1	Body as taboo: The Art History approach	Maria Athanasekou	Art Historian, Greece
6.2	Selfless body, bodiless self: The mind-uploading scenario	John Mazarakis	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
6.3	Genome editing: engineering, applications and limitations	Antigoni Avramouli	Ionian University, Greece

Parallel Sessions I(10:15-11:30)

Workshop (09:00-12:00)
Title: ICT and Collaborative Creativity in Modern School towards Knowledge Society
Speakers:

EW.1	Panagiotis Anastassiadis	University of Crete, Greece
EW.2	Kostas Christidis	University of Crete, Greece
EW.3	Lampros Karvounis	University of Crete, Greece
EW.4	Kostas Kotsidis	University of Crete, Greece

Panel (12:00-13:15)
Chair: Kostas Christidis, University of Crete, Greece

EP.1	"The world of sound and image": audiovisual literacy in high school	Eleni Margarou, Anna Matsiori, Triantafyllia Syvaka & Magdalene Tsionki	Experimental Senior High School of University of Macedonia, Greece KESYP Neapolis, Greece
EP.2	Integrating art education with technology: a survey and some good examples	Styliani Sylaiou & Georgios Papaioannou	Ionian University, Greece Ionian University, Greece
EP.3	Terms and Limits of Art in Modern School. The Example of Literature using New Technological and Communication Environments and Spaces Transgression	Paraskevi Ganatsiou	Ionian University, Greece

Session 9: Contagious (15:45-17:00)
Chair: Olga Pombo, University of Lisbon, Portugal

9.1	Intra-species Transgressions and Micro-ontological Indeterminacy	Nevena Ivanova	DeTao Roy Ascott Studio @Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, China
9.2	Disgust and the Fear of Contagion	Alanna Lynch	Independent artist, Germany
9.3	Material Empathy in an Indivisible Landscape	Jenifer Wightman	Cornell University, USA

Break (17:00-17:30)

Session 10: Web & Art (17:30-18:45)
Chair: Apostolos Loufopoulos, Ionian University, Greece

10.1	The Cyberspace and the Emancipated Artist	Avi Rosen	Technion IIT, Israel
10.2	Taboo and transcendence in Internet Art	Marily Argyrokastriti	Ionian University, Greece
10.3	The Discreet charm of surveillance	Vasilis Bouzas	University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Session 11: Domination (18:45-20:00)
Chair: Polona Tratnik, Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia

11.1	Sacrum intolerandus - Colonial Transgressions	Anna Kedziora	University of Arts in Poznan, Poland
11.2	Beast and Adversity on the Problem of Animism in a (post) modern technological world	Stefan Kristensen & Anna Barseghian	University of Geneva, Switzerland Utopiana, Switzerland - Armenia
11.3	Tactical Extinction	Michael Dudeck	The Museum of Artificial Histories, Canada

Conference Day 3 - Parallel Sessions IV (09:00-10:15)

Session 12A: Death
Chair: Athena Peglidou, Ionian University, Greece

12A.1	Discussion with a pagan music photograph	Eirini Moschovou	Ionian University, Greece
12A.2	Tesla’s Ashes: From Commonplace to Transgressive	Mirjana Uzelac	University of Alberta, Canada
12A.3	Film adaptations of Frankenstein: Overcoming death on screen	Kostoula Kaloudi	University of the Peloponnese, Greece

Session 12B: Borderless
Chair: Michalis Panagopoulos, Ionian University, Greece

12B.1	Human Evolution, Free Will and Social Restriction	Haralampos Papadamianos	University of Crete, Greece
12B.2	Ecologies of Transmission. Artistic explorations of the taboos and secrets in today's lived electromagnetism	Daniela Silvestrin	Independent researcher, curator and cultural manager, Germany
12B.3	Computational aesthetics and radical novelty: a transcendence beyond algorithms for creative music synthesis?	Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, Konstantinos Drossos & Andreas Floros	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Tampere University of Technology, Finland Ionian University, Greece

Conference Day 3 - Parallel Sessions V (10:15-11:30)