The Steering Committee of the 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival (#AVfest2022) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, in collaboration with the ERHMEE Lab - Department of Music Studies, of the Ionian University invites students and anyone who is interested in joining the volunteers’ team.

The program of the 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival, which will take place on Μay 12th to June 5th 2022, covers, as every year, a wide range of artistic, educational and scientific activities.

AV-school, the series of seminars and workshops of the Audiovisual Arts Festival, is taking place online this year from 15 to 20 May 2022.

Τhe Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University organizes the 4th International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges (DCAC-2022) which will be held in hybrid way -online and in Corfu (Greece)- on May 13th and 14th, 2022.

On Tuesday 25 January 2022, Dr. Emmanouel Rovithis is presenting the lecture with the title "Playful Mechanisms in Audio Spaces" within the framework of Semiotic Analysis of New Media in the MA: Audiovisual Arts a course taught by Dr. Dalila Honorato and Dr. Tania Tsiridou.

The Animation Festival ICONA 2021, which took place from the 2nd to the 5th of December 2021, exclusively online, by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, was successfully completed.

The third Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2021, organized and promoted by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University had exceeded our expectations with more than 1.500 submissions.

Following the great success of the previous years, Women in Film and Television Greece (WIFT GR) and the Greek Film Archive present the 5th “50/50 EQUALITY IN CINEMA” WIFT GR FILM FESTIVAL, which is organised this year with the collaboration of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, under the auspices and with the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sport, and under the auspices of the Hellenic General Secretariat for Demography and Family Policy and Gender Equality. It takes place between 24 and 28 November 2021, on the occasion of the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25/11). all screenings and events of the Festival will be free of charge. Due to the pandemic, the Festival will be held online, at the screening platform of the Greek Film Archive online.tainiothiki.gr, with the exception of the opening night (24/11, at 19:00), which will take place in the great hall of the Greek Film Archive.

The aim of the Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2021 is to present the best from the field of animation from all around the world. The festival also aims to preserve and help develop the cultural heritage of animated film, contribute to creation of new films, provide ground for potential international co-productions and encourages dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public. Hard Submission Deadline: 10/10/2021

The 14th Audiovisual Arts Festival programme completed with great success its artistic, educational and scientific activities. The live activities lasted 18 days, from 13 to 31 May 2021. The steering committee of the 14th Audiovisual Arts Festival warmly thanks its audiences for their support to all the actions throught these days: the particularly encouraging comments strengthen the efforts for the next Audiovisual Arts Festival!

The Museum of the Ionian University, with Director the Associate Professor of the Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology Stavros Vlizos, and the Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, with Director the Associate Professor Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, organize online tribute for the eighty years since the death of JAMES JOYCE. The artist and director Vouvoula Skoura curates the tribute, with the co-operation of the Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Elena Hamalidi. Online tribute: https://joyce.inarts.eu/

On Thursday, December 31st, 2020 and Friday, January 1st, 2021, the streaming of the projection mapping and the in situ performance which was created within the framework of the celebration by the Region of Ionian Islands for the 200th anniversary of the 1821 revolution took place. The artwork that will be projected, entitled "Sound and Light 1821 - 2021", was designed and implemented entirely by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University.

The Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Associate Professor Andreas Giannakoulopoulos and the Secretariat, Niki Alevizaki and Georgia Apostolopoulou wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!