The Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University organizes the 8th International Conference Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges (DCAC-2026) which will be held in the Ionian Academy in Corfu (Greece), on May 8-9, 2026.
DCAC-2026 will again afford an exceptional opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, offering a worldwide connection between researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, facilitating partnerships across national and disciplinary borders.
The aim of the DCAC-2026 is to bring together technology, art and culture in the Digital Era, as well as to provide a forum on current research and applications incorporating technology, art and culture, to deepen cooperation, exchange experiences and good practices.
Keynote Speeches
https://avarts.ionio.gr/dcac/2026/en/keynote/
Fiday, May 8th, 2026
Keynote: Photographing Matter: A Conversation with Christina Dimitriadis
Keynote speaker: Christina Dimitriadis
Time: 12:15 – 13:00
Venue: Ionian Academy
What changes for the art of photography when the focus is on quarries, rocky islets, and ships under construction? What can the lens capture, and what do these unique portraits of matter reveal? On the occasion of this year’s main festival exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery of Corfu, Christina Dimitriadis will speak about her artistic research and practice, emphasizing issues related to matter and materiality, decay and memory, and cultural and natural heritage.
Saturday, may 9th, 2026
Keynote: A.I. Musicking and The Commons – Aural Inscriptions: Currents & Histories
Keynote speaker: Eric Rosenzveig
Time: 12:10 – 12:55
Venue: Ionian Academy
A talk/listening session illustrating our situation as musickers using technology vis a vis big tech, and the “big three” who own 70% of the world’s musical patrimony. Rapid advances in the possibility of creative music making afforded by A.I. correspond with increasing concentration of ownership, including distribution control, within the music business. While the commons has been pillaged for training data, simultaneously the almost infinite resources of the oligopoly tech and music sectors have been brought to bear in legal actions against those opposing their agendas.
A quick charting of the historical advances towards A.I. musicking while looking at changes in copyright law, copy-left and collaborative and open-source activities, the realities of copyright enforcement, …and of course piracy – a word aptly but rarely applied to Meta, Google or OpenAI.
The DCAC-2026 conference aims to highlight the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of digital creation, fostering dialogue between art, technology, and society.
DCAC-2026 Official Website: https://avarts.ionio.gr/dcac/
DCAC-2026 Schedule: https://avarts.ionio.gr/dcac/2026/en/schedule/
Contact: av-dcac@ionio.gr
