5th International Conference

Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Interdisciplinary Creativity in Arts and Technology

Hybrid - Corfu/Online, May 12-13, 2023

SCHEDULE

All Friday Sessions will be held online and will be streamed live.
All Saturday Sessions will be held on-site at the Ionian Academy and will also be streamed live.
All times are in Athens Time (EEST)

Current version: v.8 - Final.

Updated: 12-05-2023

Show / Hide All

Friday, May 12th 2023
09:30-11:15	Session 1: Art, Cultural Encounters, Practices of Transformations EXTENDING INTANGIBLE HERITAGE THROUGH PHYSICAL RE-ENACTMENT, FILM & SOUND ART. Astrid Kensinger, Alaa Albarazy, Maha Al Marri, Mayssa Al-Mumin, Sara Al Naimi, Guillaume Rousere Enhancing Storyboard Development through Prompt-Driven AI-Generated Imagery Leonidas Goudelis, Iakovos Panagopoulos, Ioannis Deliyannis The importance of ratings and reviews in social media for cultural Tourism. Case study: Europe's castles on TripAdvisor Magdalini Ntouka Montesantou, Agisilaos Konidaris From text-to-image to typing-to-image : Emphasizing User Involvement Lionel Laloum The Intersection of Art and Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the Perpetual Issues. From “AARON” to “DALL-E”, “Midjourney” and “Stable Diffusion” Marina Rigou Open Justice Transformations Impacting Extended Reality (XR) Environments Adnan Hadzi Analysis of Transmedia non human character with motion capture technology: Non Human Character rigging Case study Giorgos Nikopoulos, Anthie Kolokotroni, Panayiotis Kyriakoulakos	Online
11:30-12:45	Session 2: Digital Culture and Technologies Brain-Computer Interfaces in Virtual Reality Cinema: the case of NEUROSYNAPSES VR brain-controlled interactive movie Nefeli Dimitriadi Entangled creativity: on the intersections of glitch, remix, and serendipity Aaron Juarez Redesign of an Anglo-Saxon Ancient Lyre by Parametric Computer Aided Design and Modal Analysis Alexandros Papoutsis, Emmanouil Tzimtzimis, Nikolaos Kumartzis, Konstantinos Tsongas, Dimitrios Tzetzis SENSING THE WRACK Jennifer Parker, Fiona Hillary, Ellen Marie Sæthre-McGuirk Internationalization of Cultural Industry with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Technologies Antonios Kargas, Georgios Loumos ‘This Place Has Its Own Air’: A Proof of Concept for Urban Air Quality Data Visceralisation Polina Zioga, Catherine M. Weir	Online
13:00-14:15	Session 3: Science, Art and Technology An approach to the Digital Transformation of our Cities Terry Trickett Directing for Immersive Cinema: the case of NEUROSYNAPSES movie virtual production workflow and the actor’s perspective. Nefeli Dimitriadi, Natali Chavez The recurring displeasures of the Virtual Reality Environments; a speculative approach. Magdalini Grigoriadou, Dimitris Batsis, Giorgos Loukakis, Themistoklis Lekkas Removing funerary artwork from cemeteries: the ethical considerations Maria Athanasekou Walking maps through bacterial colonies Angela Fragkou, Thanos Makris	Online
14:30-16:00	Session 4: Digital Culture and Video games Playing with space: Visual and narrative representations of spaces in digital games and cinema Natalia Arsenopoulou, Anna Poupou, Charalampos Rizopoulos Digital escape games as educational facilitators for the familiarization with cultural landscapes through literary texts Aristides Vagelatos, Monica Gavrielidou, Maria Fountana, Spiros Papadopoulos Exploring the User Aspects of the Ionian Film Office's Metaverse Space: A Gamified Touristic and Film Location Guide Ioannis Deliyannis, Iakovos Panagopoulos, Athanasios Tsigas, Katerina Rizou, Manos Kaloudas The representation of death in video games and interactive media: a narrative, aesthetic and gameplay analysis Christina Chrysanthopoulou The Darkness of the Algorithm: mental illness and its ludic enactment in the medium of videogames Anastasios Tsakaliadis-Sotirakoglou From a participatory city to a collaborative city- Video games as an emergent tool for designing public space. Khalil Morad El Ghilali, Spiros Papadopoulos, Iman Meriem Benkiran, Vassilis Bourdakis	Online
16:15-17:30	Session 5: Audiovisual Challenges and Creative Applications The weft. Time-based media arts and cross-art practices. Sergio Patricio Using 3D digital twins to enhance the conservation, promotion and accessibility of the cultural heritage of historic buildings and settlements: a literature review Eleftheria Iakovaki, Markos Konstantakis, Eleni Kanetaki An interactive media artwork addressing AI bias Caterina Antonopoulou Preserving architectural heritage by combining visual and acoustical features in interactive 3D virtual environments: A Literature Review George Konstantakis, Markos Konstantakis, Panagiotis Parthenios Volumetric and edible NFTs explorations of the limits of aesthetic assetization and tokenization: what can we learn from the failures? Denisa Reshef Kera An attempt to categorise the new scenography that is born when new media meet the stage. Paraskevi Bokovou	Online
17:45-19:30	Session 6: Digital Culture and Education Artificial intelligence and the Democratization of Music Ai-[e]ducation. Dimitri Chatzigiannakis, Agnes Papadopoulou Can we speak about "the Netflix culture"? The place of streaming platforms in culture studies' discourse Dominik Kania Investigating the scope of learning glass technologies in the context of media-rich education Eftychia Aslanidou, Georgios P. Heliades Art Puzzling sustainability: Intergrading English language teaching and Environmental Education to inmates Ilektra Lykiardopoulou, Chrysi Papadimitriou, George Iliadis, Ioannis Deliyannis Film practice research and contentious politics. Multidisciplinary approach in the “Third Path in Cinema”. Iakovos Panagopoulos, Seraphim Seferiades, Athanasios Tsigas Augmented Reality as a tool for location-based narratives in Documentary films: Potentials for creating new forms of cinematic narratives Argyro Papathanasiou Undoing from within: noise as knowledge contribution or the polyphony of a possible whole Monika Jaeckel	Online
20:00	Open Mic Q&A Chairs: Michail Panagopoulos, Vasileios Komianos	Online
Saturday, May 13th 2023
08:55-09:00	Welcome Message from the Conference Chair, Michail Panagopoulos	Ionian Academy
09:00-10:30	Session 1: New Aesthetics - New Dimensions Chair: Michail Panagopoulos Machine learning in cycling and sports Stephania Kanellopoulou Emotion recognition in experimental video sequence Konstantinos Tsioutas, Konstantinos Tiligadis The use of technology by artists for the purpose of social and political criticism. The case of Video Art and Neon Art. Eleni Linardou Reframing Immersion, Agency and In-betweenness in Contemporary Art: The Case of Interactive Holographic Installation Prime Unmoved Mover (Tiligadis, 2023) Konstantinos Tiligadis, Maria ilia Katsaridou Breaking (b)it Diana Cencer Garafová Hands, No Hands: Post-Digital Materiality Denton Fredrickson	Ionian Academy
10:30-12:00	Session 2: New Media and Cultural Heritage Chair: Ioannis Deliyannis 4D hypersphere Perception: An Educational Interactive VR Application Designed by TechnArtists Charilaos Gounaropoulos, Nikolaos Kanellopoulos, Triantafyllos Kountardas Techno-Utopianism and Social Media: Examining the Promises, Fulfillment, and Impacts in the 21st Century Valia Kaimaki, Eva Bantiki Amorgos in transition Konstantinos Gardikis Virtually navigating in the Petralona Cave – The Cave3 serious game experience Charisios Achillas, Dimitrios Tzetzis, Sokratis Poulios, Christos Fotos, Dionysis Tsentidis, Emmanouil Tzimtzimis, Athanassios Athanassiou, Elli Karkazi, Andreas Darlas, Yannis Aspiotis, Vicky Chatziparadeisi, Dionysis Bochtis A Framework for Audio Game Design in the Augmented Museum: the Case Study of the Ionian University Museum Typography Collection Emmanouel Rovithis, Vasileios Komianos, Varvara Garneli, Agnes Papadopoulou Non-Narrative Narratives and Machines before Machine Learning: Philip Glass’ Koyaanisqatsi as an Analogue Tone Poem on the Digital World James Papoutsis	Ionian Academy
12:00-12:15	Break	Ionian Academy
12:15-12:30	Welcome Notes Andreas Floros, Rector of the Ionian University Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Head of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University	Ionian Academy
12:30-13:30	Keynote Speaker Marianne Strapatsakis Title: “How and why a classical visual artist involved with New Media and Digital Culture” Chair: Michail Panagopoulos, Ionian University, Greece	Ionian Academy
13:30-15:00	Break	Ionian Academy
15:00-16:30	Session 3: Digital Culture and Technologies Chair: Vasileios Komianos Adaptive Transmedia Storytelling for Cultural Objects:: A Case Study of Angelos Sikelianos Poet’s House Museum in Lefkas, Greece Vaia Tzori, Sofia Maria Poulimenou, Ioannis Deliyannis Visual Representations of Four, Five and Six - Dimensional Hyperspheres: An Artistic Approach Based on Descriptions in Peter Ouspensky's “Tertium Organum Dimitrios Traperas, Nikolaos Kanellopoulos From asylum to inclusion: the production methodology of an anti-stigma short documentary film about individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia Polyxeni Kaimara, Maria Peyioti, Petros Argitis, Vasileios Zempilis, Adamantia Egglezopoulou, Zannis Chaviaras Challenging issues in audiovisual narrative: inserting the biological dimension in film analysis of incest Stella Klimatsaki, Dalila Honorato Harnessing AI and Prompt Injection Techniques for Sustainable Management in Education and Tourism Sofia Maria Poulimenou, Ioannis Deliyannis, Polyxeni Kaimara, Leonidas Goudelis Plato’s Allegory of the ‘Cave’ and Hyperspaces: Sonic Representation of the ‘Cave’ as a Four Dimensional Acoustic Space via an Interactive Art Application Dimitrios Traperas, Andreas Floros, Nikolaos Kanellopoulos	Ionian Academy
16:30-18:00	Session 4: Audiovisual Challenges and Creative Applications Chair: Renata Dalianoudi A night at the opera Christos Tsakiridis Extending the MUSENSE project from the Music Industry to the Wider World of Performance Ioannis Deliyannis, Ioannis Toulis, Raffaele Longo, Minas Pergantis Re-writing the Art of Sound Stavroula Vraila, Apostolos Loufopoulos, Thanasis Epitidios Media literacy impact on elementary school teachers’ wellbeing. Afroditi Ntouka, Maria Kalograia Promoting cultural heritage through digital technologies and gamification: The ARTECH project Charisios Achillas, Dimitrios Tzetzis, Christos Vlachokostas, Alexandra Michailidou, Kleoniki Kyrkopoulou, Savvas Koltsakidis, Vasilis Efopoulos, Despoina Theodorakoglou, Vasilis Gkonos TRANSCODING MUSIC AND SOUND INTO SUBTITLING FOR d/DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING VIEWERS: THE CASE OF “DUNKIRK” (2017) Vilelmini Sosoni, Renata Dalianoudi, Aikaterini Boutouridou	Ionian Academy
18:00-18:15	Break	Ionian Academy
18:15-19:00	Keynote Speaker Erik Knudsen Title: “Do Not Be Afraid” Transcending Barriers of the Heart and Mind In Independent Narrative Filmmaking Chair: Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece	Ionian Academy
19:00-19:15	Break	Ionian Academy
19:15-21:00	Session 5: Artistic Perception, Vision, Art and Technology Chair: Dionysios Katerelos From the End to the Beginning of a script : Pitching essentials in AI era Barbara Dukas Could augmented reality applications support bilingual students with dyslexia? Polyxeni Kaimara, Stefanos-Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Sofia Stamou, Eleni Griva, Assimina Tsibidaki Building a simplified Role-playing Game using mythology Marina Kouki, Vasiliki Arkoumani, Konstantinos Tsakas, Varvara Garneli, Vasileios Komianos Intermedial Encounters in Experimental Cinema. Time and Space Redefined Loukia Kostopoulou, Maria ilia Katsaridou sex, disability and cinema case study Maria Papadopoulou Greek Postmodern Science Fiction Parody: Moussaka at the End of the World Eva Vlachou	Ionian Academy

Show / Hide All

Full festival schedule

SPONSORS

Accommodation

Communication