The “Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age” Postgraduate Programme of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University, cordially invites all interested parties to attend the public defense of the following Master’s thesis: Representations of Disability in Advertising: An Audiovisual Analysis of Selected International/Transnational and Greek Advertising Spots

Konstantinos Tiligadis, Professor at the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts, together with the AVARTS group of the Postgraduate Programme, participates in the Platforms Project 2026, 17-20.9.2026, Hellenic Parliament Tobacco Factory building

The MARes in Hybrid Arts, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, announces the first week of public Master’s thesis presentations for September 2026, taking place online from 23 to 25 September 2026. Across three consecutive days, MARes candidates will present research-creation projects that reflect the interdisciplinary and experimental scope of Hybrid Arts, bringing together fungal and more-than-human pedagogies, speculative design, digital performance, artificial intelligence, speculative museology, embodied and archival practices, visual storytelling, ecology, sound, movement, and interactive performance. The presentations are open to the public and will take place online via Zoom.

The MARes in Hybrid Arts, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, announces the first week of public Master’s thesis presentations for September 2026, taking place online from 15 to 18 September 2026. Across four consecutive days, MARes candidates will present research-creation projects that reflect the interdisciplinary and experimental scope of Hybrid Arts, bringing together artistic research, ecology, interspecies design, bio-based practices, critical cartography, computational processes, curatorial practice, degrowth, and slow media. The presentations are open to the public and will take place online via Zoom.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University is organizing for the first time the AVARTS Pitching Lab, an Internship action aimed at bringing students into direct contact with the professional world. This meeting is for you.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University is pleased to announce the 19th Audiovisual Arts Festival, which will take place in Corfu from Thursday, May 7 to Sunday, May 17.

The Steering Committee of the 19th Audiovisual Arts Festival (#AVfest2026) 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.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the participation of two students of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University in the 22nd Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF 2026), titled "META–MORPHOSIS", which takes place on 23–26 April 2026 at Technopolis City of Athens. Tonia Papakonstantinou — postgraduate student of the M.A. programme "Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age" — presents the work "Condact: The Metamorphosis of Touch" and Hope Zoe Papathanasiou — undergraduate student of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts — presents the work "Wave Motion".

The MARes in Hybrid Arts program (Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University) invites you to the public online defense of the Master’s thesis Doublespeeches by Nathalie Dubois Calero, supervised by Adam Zaretsky, on Thursday, 19 February 2026 at 10:00 (Athens time), via Zoom. The project is a bioart approach to human identity through the microbiota and the concept of the human holobiont, raising speculative questions about behavior. The defense is open to the public, and all interested students, researchers, artists, and members of the community are welcome to attend.

Participation in the online festival Waves of Light of the National Opera, in collaboration with PPC, of ​​the video-performance Just Transition? | Δίκαιη μετάβαση; by students of AVARTS Postgraduate Studies Program "Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age" under the guidance of Associate Professor of AVARTS, Hari Marini. The Greek National Opera’s online festival Waves of Light, in collaboration with the PPC and curated by Giorgos Koumendakis, features the first series of site-specific performances inspired by the Megalopolis Steam Power Station. From 23/12/2025 to 23/12/2028.

The Master of Research in Hybrid Arts (MARes) at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University announces the first public release of Human Germline Gene Editing is Bioart: An Open Letter to Lulu and Nana by bioartist Adam Zaretsky, Visiting Professor in the MARes program published online on January 1, 2026, by the Bioart Ethical Advisory Kommission (BEAK) in Simplified Chinese, English and French.

The Animation Festival ICONA 2025, which took place from November 13th to 16th 2025, exclusively online, by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, was successfully completed. The festival program included both professional and student competitions. A total of 316 films from 100 countries were screened. For those who didn't catch the movie screenings of the ICONA FESTIVAL 2025 or for those who would like to see the movies again, you will be able to watch them on demand, available from December 17th until 31st 2025: https://iconafestival.eu/vod .

We are pleased to continue the MSG Talks, an online platform where MARes postgraduate students share their ongoing research and artistic experiments with the broader academic and artistic community. This December, will present the latest developments in their projects: Sujata Majumdar, Sofiya Barinova-Osbanova, Myrto Papadopoulos, Tatiana Yfanti and Anne Vlaanderen.

Date & Time: 19 November 2025, 17:00–19:00 Location: Online Platform Hosted within: Project Sustainability Coordination: Dr. Iakovos Panagopoulos

ICONA FESTIVAL 2025 is organized and promoted by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University. ICONA 2025 is taking place online from November 13th to November 16th 2025. The Festival culminates on Sunday, November 16, 2025, at 17.00 CET, with the award ceremony for the winning films.