General Announcements

The 2nd AVARTS Live Game Hub takes place on the 6th of December 2022 and welcomes anyone who wants to play games designed by new game designers and developers and to participate in a creative dialogue concerning ideas, technologies, and approaches that make games more attractive. The event is organized by teachers of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts with a coordinating core of Vasileios (...)

On Monday, December 5th, 2022, in Aretaios Building-room 3, of the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts – Ionian University, from 11:00 to 13:00, Assoc. Prof. Dalila Honorato and Art Staff Christina Mitsani have the pleasure to invite you to the guest-lecture “Storyfronts an interactive storytelling documentary and video game” by the Canadian visiting-artist Elizabeth Littlejohn. This lecture is organized as part of the "THE302-Philosophy & Media Aesthetics" and "VIS130-Analogue Drawing", and is supported by the Interactive Arts Laboratory, the Program for the design of an Erasmus+ MA in Art, Science and Health, and the Gender Equality Committee of the Ionian University. 

The fourth Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2022, organized and promoted by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University had exceeded our expectations with more than 1.300 submissions.

In the context of the research activity of the Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, the Art Boulevard search engine, an academic project that aims to assist with the diffusion of Art and Culture related content, while at the same collecting useful information about the needs and wants of people looking for such content online. 

Deadline: October 10th, 2022

On Tuesday, October 11th, 2022, in room YK1 of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts – Ionian University, from 18:30 to 20:00, as part of the course "THE702 Multimedia Semiotics IΙ", Assoc. Prof. Dalila Honorato invite you to the lecture “Current trends in Gender and Sexuality and their influence on Media and Fashion” by the US guest-speaker Dr. Sharna Striar. This lecture is supported by the Interactive Arts Laboratory, the Program for the design of an Erasmus+ MA Art, Science and Health, and the Gender Equality Committee of the Ionian University.

Mentors of undergraduates for the academic year 2022-2023

The Audiovisual Signal Processing Laboratory EP.OA.SI. of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts successfully presented its research projects at the 86th Thessaloniki International Exhibition. The participation of EP.OA.SI. in the Pavilion of the Ionian University comprised the interactive demonstration of applications for mobile devices (tablets), aiming at education and entertainment, based (...)

Angelos Floros, Assistant Professor of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, participates in the Conference, Symposium "The Art and the Design of XR Reality", action of the ERASMUS XR Multiplier Event organized by the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with Onassis Stegi Cultural Center. Angelos Floros participates with the presentation of the (...)

Angelos Floros, assistant professor of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, presents the lecture 'Art in the Information Age' on Sunday, September 23 at 6pm. at the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival 'Futuretro'. The lecture is online and presented from the ADAF page. By registering the public, it is possible to actively participate with questions. Active participation requires (...)

Released in July 2022, the new book published in Zagreb, Croatia, by KONTEJNER, with title Arc-hive: Case Studies and Life as an Object, includes the article “Digital Semiotics for Biomedia Art” by Associate Professor of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University Dalila Honorato. The book, with ISBN 978-953-7985-11-0 and editors Ena Hodžić, Olga Majcen Linn, Jurica Mlinarec and Luja Šimunović, is digitally available for free download.

A new international and transdisciplinary Master of Arts programme on the topic of Art, Science and Health will be showcased, tested and evaluated during a one-week Pilot Course held online in English language for a maximum of 40 participants, from Monday, November 7, to Friday, November 11, 2022, every day from 5.00 p.m. CET. Participation is free of admission.

Four participations from the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University this year at the international conference "FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology": Associate Professor Mrs. Dalila Honorato presenting “Meet HAL: Hub of Arts Laboratories and how to do lab networking”, special teaching staff Mrs. Christina Mitsani (Special Educational Personnel), PhD candidate Mrs. Styliani-Anna Klimatsaki and the postdoctoral researcher Dr Marina Markellou. As a highly international community, the program of FEMeeting 2022 “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” includes 95 presentations by 109 speakers from 27 countries as well as other activities to encourage communication among its participants. Taking place from 12 to 17 September 2022, the third conference has its kick-off in Lisbon, at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, and continues its program in the city of Évora, hosted in the Convento de São Bento de Castris and the Fundação Eugénio de Almeida.

The announcement of the bases of admission to the Higher Educational Institutions for the academic year 2022-2023 had some very positive elements for the Department of Audio & Visual Arts that highlight its distinct and unique physiognomy, while at the same time confirming its upward trajectory that continued this year.

The academic calendar for the year 2022-2023 is published with dates on tuition, exams and holidays.

The “Welcome to Planet B” Festival University 2022, a joint initiative between Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), invites students from around the world to jointly develop planetary strategies for change and transformation. This second edition of the Festival University takes place in Linz August 18 – September 14, 2022. Deadline: June 30th, 2022.

For the purposes of filming "My big fat Greek Wedding 3" we are looking for people who want to be part of this experience, in order to to work with our production teams behing the scenes as paid crew. Shootings will take place in Corfu from 5.7-3.8.2022.  If you are interested please send your CV to the following e-mail: mbfgw3corfuoffice@gmail.com.

The 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival concluded yesterday a 3-week events program, celebrating its return live, after two years, to Corfu town. The annual festival of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University is organized in collaboration with the Lab for Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications of the Department of Music Studies. This year's festival took place from (...)

The 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival organised by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts in collaboration with the ΕΡΗΜΕΕ laboratory of the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University chose the Environment Day, Sunday, June 5th to celebrate at the estate of Mon Repo the end of its rich program. The volunteers of the Festival, of whom we are very proud and to whom we are obliged, undertake the organisation of the closing event, the same people who undertook the opening on May 12th. We are invited to a celebration for relaxation and decompression with respect for the natural environment and its ideals.

On June 1-3, a meeting of the ASH-MA consortium for the design of a new Art, Science & Health MA program with participants from Croatia, Serbia and Greece, will take place in Corfu. The program was launched in February 2022 by the Croatian NGO Kontejner, Bureau of Contemporary Art Praxis and three universities: Academy of Fine Arts - University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia), Department of Audio and Visual Arts - Ionian University (Corfu, Greece) and Faculty of Media and Communication - Singidunum University (Belgrade, Serbia).

On Sunday, May 29, 2022, within the framework of the 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival, screenings dedicated to the work of Iannis Xenakis will be streamed online. The participating countries are: Japan (participants: Nagoya City University και Tokyo University of the Arts), Greece (participants: Ionian University), France (participants: Centre Iannis Xenakis (CIX) ) and USA (participants: Xenakis Project of the Americas). Screenings' director: Professor Ioannis Zannos, Director of PEARL Laboratory

This weekend May 28-29th 2022 in Corfu town the program of the 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival has a strong presence of events with works by students of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University.

The 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, in collaboration with the Chania Film Festival is organizing a discussion titled “Documentary in Education”. This discussion is addressing the educational community of Corfu, teachers of Primary and Secondary Education and aims to investigate the level of digital skills in education, to suggest new ways of thinking through programmes such as Art Education using New Media while, on the other hand, pointing out the difficulties in realizing innovative projects.

The AVARTS Live Game Hub is an action that aims to bring together new game designers and creators and promote their ideas to the public. It is organized by teachers of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts with a coordinating core of Vasileios Komianos, Varvara Garnelis, and Emmanouel Rovithis, and participated by students who are actively involved in creating games. It focuses on the design and (...)

Hari Marini and PartSuspended artist collective (https://www.partsuspended.com/) will run the following workshops, artist talk and performance work within AVSchool May 2022, open to all. PartSuspended’s projects follow an interdisciplinary approach and include live performance, movement, movement, sound, video-work, writing, participatory workshops, exhibitions and installations. Their work (...)

On Monday 09 of May 2022, at 09:00-12:00 in the Lecture Theatre 2 of the History Department we are hosting a visiting seminar with Mr. Argyris Zachos, as part of the [AVA841] Audiovisual Production Management module.

On Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in the YK2 hall, from 16:00 to 18:00, as part of the course "THE848 Hybrid Arts Practices", the lecturers Dr. Dalila Honorato and Dr. Tania Tsiridou invite you to the lecture of the artist Dr. Anna Kedziora, who will talk about her artwork where she combines philosophy and ecology as well as about artistic education in Poland.

From Monday 2 to Friday 7 May, Ms Haruka Hirayama, Mr. Hideaki Isobe (Professors of Computer Music, Music Technology and New Media at Hokkaido Information University and Tokyo Music College) are visiting Corfu as guests of the European project EASTN-DC  (European Art-Science-Technology Network, Digital Creativity) and the Audiovisual Arts Festival of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, to develop and show projects at the Studio of the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Corfu.