General Announcements

Apulia Film Commision Foundation organizes a 3 days online workshop for Italian and Greek operators in the frame of CIAK project.The initiative aims to explore the national and international evolution related to the new cinema and audiovisual productions and television industry, in addition to the new trends and distribution media.

The screenings of the festival, which will take place exclusively online, from December the 4th until December the 6th, 2020, will be available worldwide only for registered users with password. * Please note that the screenings schedule has been announced in Central European Time (CET), that is GMT+1 zone. 

The second Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2020, organized and promoted by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University had exceeded our expectations with more than 1.200 submissions.

Τhe fourth international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" will take place November 26–28, 2020, exclusively online as TTT2020 Vienna/Online, an umbilical cord between what would be and what it is. Including theoretical and art practice presentations, TTT2020 continues to focus: (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and aesthetics of liminality as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science; (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. TTT2020 Vienna/Online will have one unique streaming channel with a 12 hours program/day followed by a recorded re-stream for audiences in other time zones. This means 24h a day for three days non-stop! The program of TTT2020 is divided in four categories in a total of twenty-three Sessions, six Roundtables, five ArtBox events and three Open Mic Q&A sessions.

On October 14th, 2020 (time 10:15-11:45 EDT), Assistant Professor Dalila Honorato, coordinator of the art & science research group at the InArts Lab of the Ionian University, participates as a speaker at the conference ISEA2020 ONLINE "Why Sentience?".

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti and Honorary Doctorate Stelarc participate in the collective work “Modified: Living as a Cyborg”, Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera, Steven Mentor (eds.), Routledge, 2020, with artwork presentation and book chapters: “Seven Ghosts: Critical Confessions of a Psyborg Mind” (by Angeliki Malakasioti) and “Zombies, Cyborgs and Chimeras: (...)

The Interactive Arts Laboratory 'inArts' of the Department of Audiovisual Arts of the Ionian University participates in the 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival with 70 works by undergraduate, graduate students, students of the newly established OPEN ART Lifelong Learning Program, graduates and faculty. The Exhibition is taking place in Asomaton square and the pedestrian street of Ermou (THISIO Station), from Thursday, October 8 until Sunday, October 18.

Mentors of undergraduates for the academic year 2020-2021 are available at the webpage: Mentors

Interreg Greece-Italy project CIAK -in which the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University is a main partner and contributor- is finalist in the Slam Video Competition 2020. Please help to get “likes” to the video and win the social media award.

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 (...)

Participation of the PhD Candidate of the Department of Audio & Visual arts, Luc Messinezis, with the work Procession of the Simulacra,  at Sound Campus Programme of Ars Electronica 2020, Linz, Austria, 9-13 September 2020. Luc Messineszis' “Procession of the Simulacra. A journey through hyperreality in four movements”, was officially selected for presentation as part of Ars Electronica (...)

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Angeliki Malakasioti, publishes book-essay "The Poetics of Melancholic Space", by Mov Skiouros Publications. Athens, 2020 Pages 1-104  ISBN: 978–618–5476–01–4 Synopsis: Though soul-driven, the melancholic condition contains an inherent relationship with space. The aspects, structures, (...)

The academic calendar for the year 2019-2020 is published with dates on tuition, exams and holidays.

The Academic Senate of Ionian University (Corfu, Greece)  has made the difficult decision to postpone all incoming and outgoing mobilities scheduled for the Winter Semester of the academic year 2020-2021 to the next Spring Semester or the next academic year, due to COVID-19. We believe this decision is in the best interest of the students given the current circumstances, and truly hope that (...)

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).

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.

Following the recent developments on COVID-19 current outbreak, we would like to inform you that for the moment no cases have been confirmed inside the academic community of Ionian University. However, Ionian University is undertaking specific preventative measures based on the Ministerial decisions issued on the temporary closure of all schools and universities in the country.

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).

Assistant Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University and founding member of InArts Lab Dalila Honorato participates in the exhibition "Com(posto)" gathering the works of the year of 2019’s activities at Cultivamos Cultura in Portugal.

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) is pleased to offer two fellowships to Greek Universities’ junior faculty members (Adjunct Lecturers, Lecturers or Assistant Professors) and Scientific and Laboratory Teaching Staff who hold a PhD (“ΕΔΙΠ” and "ΕΕΠ"), from Schools of Humanities and Social Sciences, in order to join the Harvard Summer Program in Nafplio and Thessaloniki, Greece.

The artist Francesco Kiàis, collaborator of InArts Lab, has been invited at the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK (Venice, 15-18/1/2020). The Department of Audio and Visual Arts and the Interactive Arts Lab (InArts) will collaborate as cultural partners.

Ionian University / Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts was selected by the Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program (GDFP) to host an scholar from Canada to work with on a collaborative project on Game Audio, Sound Design and Augmented Reality Audio. Professor Andreas Floros will lead the project, together with Prof. Bill Kapralos, a Fellow from University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Ontario, Canada.

The Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Professor Nikolaos Kanellopoulos, and the Secretariat wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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.

The PhD Candidate of the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts, Luc Messinezis, participates at the minus20degree Festival of Art & Architecture in Flachau, Austria with his work Amalgama (23 - 25 January 2020).

The Ionian University, Project Partner of CIAK Project, organized the third and last weekly part of the Screenwriting Workshop in Corfu, Greece on November 26 – December 1, 2019 at the Audiovisual Arts department premises. During the three weekly workshop sessions (hosted in Ioannina, Bari and Corfu respectively), 15 ascendant cinema screenwriters from all over the world attended intensive courses and gained personal supervision towards the development of their personal scenario.

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) took place in Corfu from the 29th of November until the 1st of December 2019.