The aim of the Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2020 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.

Dalila Honorato, Tenured Assistant Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, participates in the organization of FEMeeting 2020 Garden at the Ars Electronica 2020 Festival. "FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology", orchestrated by artists Marta de Menezes and Dalila Honorato in 2017, aims to disseminate works by women (ie people who self-identify (...)

OPEN ART, a Training and Lifelong Learning Program of the Ionian University (KEDIVIM) offers for free a complete Art Practice program in the fields: Arts, Technology, Sciences, Society, with the practical contribution of the Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF).

The 3rd International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges will be held in Corfu (Greece), May 15-16, 2020, hosted by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts (Ionian University). Extended deadline for submission of proposals: 18 March, 2020. CANCELLED - See also: https://ionio.gr/en/news/13820/

Considering the ongoing spread of SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) all over the World and under these unforeseen circumstances, the Organizing Committee of the DCAC 2020 is forced to announce the cancellation of the conference.

The Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University Professor Nikolaos Grigorios Kanellopoulos participates in the Government Committee “Greece 2021” on the bicentennial of the declaration of the Greek War of Independence (1821).

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts hosts the multimedia electronic opera performance project by Miguel and Paula Azguime, "Salt Itinerary", on February 12th 2020, 21:00, at Ionian Academy, Corfu, as part of its cooperation within the EASTN-DC project with scientific coordinator for the Ionian University Mr Ioannis Zannos, Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts.

Assistant Professor Dalila Honorato participates in the exhibition "Trans(form)ar" gathering the works of the year of 2019’s activities at Cultivamos Cultura in Portugal.

Tuesday 17 December 2019, time 17-19:00, in the framework of the course "Semiotic Analysis of New Media", Posgraduate Programme Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age, Dr. Tania Tsiridou, teaching staff of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, will present her talk entitled "Semiology of Internet Art".

The first Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2019, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University (within the framework of the CIAK Intereg program) will take place in Corfu from the 29th of November until the 1st of December 2019.

The ebook with the proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science 2018 was published by the Ionian University - Department of Audio & Visual Arts in November 2019. This digital publication includes 20 contributions, in English, proposed and accepted by the scientific and artistic committee of TTT2018. Edited by Dalila Honorato, María Antonia González Valerio, Marta de Menezes and Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, this is the second and main core of the presentations of TTT2018.

The aim of the first Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2019, which is organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University (within the framework of the CIAK Intereg program) 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 short animated film, contribute to creation of new films, provide ground for potential international co-productions and encourage dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public.

Assist. Professor Konstantinos Tiligadis participates as VJ in DOTS performance. Theater Rena Vlachopoulou, Mon Repos, Corfu, August 18th and 19th, 2019. Start time: 20:00.

The Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music Research & Applications [EPHMEE] and the Music Education and Music Psychology Group of the Music Department of Ionian University lend their ears to the Sound Environment and propose a series of educational, research and artistic activities, the last week of June, dedicated to the Soundscape we live in.