WhiteFeather was selected to present IMARA: DIY Biofabrication and Feminist Worldbuilding at the upcoming Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science conference, taking place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and hosted by Kino Šiška on September 10, 11, and 12, 2025.

“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. 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; 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.”

More on WhiteFeather’s presentation IMARA: DIY Biofabrication and Feminist Worldbuilding here:

In a speculative future illuminated by feminist technoscience, IMARA—the Interstitial Machine for Aggregate Reparative Anatomies emerges as a radical tool for worldbuilding and challenging the boundaries of identity, bioethics, and bodily autonomy. Developed by WhiteFeather Hunter as part of the NEW SUNS project (Artengine, Ottawa), with support from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (Alarcón Lab), IMARA represents both a functional hacked bioprinter and an artistic intervention for crafting futures where biotechnology is democratized, accessible, and transformative. The NEW SUNS project is a collective worldbuilding initiative that transcends the limits of patriarchal and extractive systems, proposing alternative ecologies of care and collaboration. Installed within the NEW SUNS exhibition (Ottawa Art Gallery), IMARA is contextualized as a practical tool and a critical object, designed to provoke dialogue and explore the boundaries of biotechnology. It engages with themes of fertility, regenerative technologies, and embodied materiality, using bioinks and stem cells derived from easily accessible sources. Drawing inspiration from Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood and her unpublished Parable of the Trickster, IMARA envisions futures where adaptability, hybridity, and transformative resilience are central to survival. In the world that IMARA inhabits, some humans have been in a cryogenic sleep (“cry-bernation”) as the world collapsed around them. Upon revival, they discover that cytotoxic cryopreservation chemicals have caused certain organs or body parts to atrophy. These cryodamages led to the development of IMARA, which provides custom 3D bioprinted anatomical tissues and organs to replace those that have atrophied. These choices are multi-speciated, allowing humans to hybridize with other organisms, such as amphibians, tweaking the boundaries between self and other and fostering new modes of coexistence and renewal. This presentation will highlight IMARA through documentation images, didactic videos, and discussion, examining its design, role in speculative worldbuilding, and implications for creating accessible, inclusive biotechnologies.

Download the full book of abstracts here: https://ionio.gr/download.php?f=03000-03999/IU-pf-03624-22126-en.pdf

For more information and to view the conference program, visit the TTT website here: https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/2025/en/