General Announcements

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.

Hari Marini, Associate Professor, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, will give a performative presentation on "Approaching Urban Scenographics Through Spirals Interventions", αs part of Performance Design Futures Symposium, οrganised by CYCSTAT - the Cyprus Center of Scenographers, Theater Architects and Technicians. ​The international hybrid symposium "Performance Design Futures Symposium" will take place 8-10th April 2022.

From February 2022, three Universities from Croatia, Greece and Serbia, along with one Croatian NGO partner, work on co-designing and testing a new, interdisciplinary MA programme named "ASH-Art, Science & Health". 

Dalila Honorato, Associate Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, was one of the participants in an exhibition by the COPRAXIS project. With the aim of promoting the creation of plastic arts, resulting from an experimental process at the intersection between art, science and technology, the project was based on the creation of works from a period of artistic residencies at i3s - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, in Porto, together with scientific collaborators and at Ectopia - Laboratório de arte experimental, in Lisbon. The exhibition took place between the 5th and 25th of March at Ectopia (Lisbon) and continues now between the 1st and 22 April at i3S (Porto).

On Friday, 8th April 2022, in classroom YK1 at 11.00 -12.00, in the frame of the courses “VIS230-Color-Drawing”, and “AVA830-Reconstruction of Technical Images”, the faculty members: Konstantinos Tiligadis ( Assoc. Professor), Spyros Verykios (Asst. Professor), Maria Argyrokastriti (Special Educational Personnel) and Maria Krigka (Special Educational Personnel), invite you at the lecture of the reknowned Greek painter George Rorris, who will give an artist talk and Q&A.

The Steering Committee of the 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival (#AVfest2022) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, in collaboration with the ERHMEE Lab - Department of Music Studies, of the Ionian University invites students and anyone who is interested in joining the volunteers’ team.

The program of the 15th Audiovisual Arts Festival, which will take place on Μay 12th to June 5th 2022, covers, as every year, a wide range of artistic, educational and scientific activities.

On Tuesday, 5.4.2022, Prof. Dr. Jorge T. Ferraz de Abreu, University of Aveiro, will give two lectures with practical examples on Digital Media and Interactive TV and on Evaluation Methods. The presentations will occur in the context of the "(AVA641) Applied Multimedia" and the "(TEC611) Designing Interfaces" courses at 9.00 and 13.00 respectively.

Today, Tuesday 29 March 2022, 4:00pm (classroom YK2), as part of the course "THE848 Hybrid Arts Practices", we will have the pleasure to host Dr. Adam Zaretsky with us on a guest lecture entitled "Bio Data Body Compost". The talk will be coordinated by the instructors of the course, Dr. Tania Tsiridou and Dr. Dalila Honorato.

Members of the InArts Lab - Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University. Dr. Dalila Honorato, Ms. Stella Lamboura, Ms. Marily Argyrokastriti and collaborating artist Dr. Adam Zaretsky participated in the kick-off meeting for the designing of the new international Master of Arts Programme “Art, Science and Health” (ASH ΜΑ), which took place 23-25 February 2022 in Zagreb.

The academic calendar for the year 2021-2022 is published with dates on tuition, exams and holidays.

AV-school, the series of seminars and workshops of the Audiovisual Arts Festival, is taking place online this year from 15 to 20 May 2022.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University has been named a partner of the third FEMeeting – Women in Art, Science and Technology Conference. The conference will be taking place between 12 and 17 September 2022, in Évora, Portugal. FEMeeting was first organized in 2017, the original idea coming from artist Marta de Menezes and Dalila Honorato, Associate Professor of the aforementioned Department of Audio and Visual Arts. The conference will be held English. Abstracts can be submitted until 12 April 2022.

This week’s class (01/03/22) will be guesting the international stop motion animator Anna Malin Mantzaris. Anna is a Swedish animation director based in Stockholm and London. Her films have won over 70 international awards, including European Animation Award, Vimeo Best of the Year, Walt Disney Award and Audience Award at Ottawa International Animation Festival. Anna has an MA in Animation (...)

On Tuesday 25 January 2022, Dr. Emmanouel Rovithis is presenting the lecture with the title "Playful Mechanisms in Audio Spaces" within the framework of Semiotic Analysis of New Media in the MA: Audiovisual Arts a course taught by Dr. Dalila Honorato and Dr. Tania Tsiridou.

The Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Assoc. Professor Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, the Deputy Head Assoc. Professor Konstantinos Tiligadis and the Secretariat of the Department, Niki Alevizaki and Georgia Apostolopoulou, wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Animation Festival ICONA 2021, which took place from the 2nd to the 5th of December 2021, exclusively online, by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, was successfully completed.

The proceedings of DCAC-2018 have been released by the Ionian University - Department of Audio and Visual Arts (Corfu) and CEUR.WS: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2811/. Edited by: Michail Panagopoulos, Agnes Papadopoulou, Andreas Giannakoulopoulos.

On November 26th, 2021 (time 19:00-19:45 CET), in the framework of the program "Re͏s͏e͏a͏r͏c͏h͏ p͏r͏a͏c͏t͏i͏c͏e͏s͏ i͏n͏ a͏r͏t͏, d͏e͏s͏i͏g͏n͏ a͏n͏d͏ a͏r͏c͏h͏i͏t͏e͏c͏t͏u͏r͏e͏ #2", Dr Dalila Honorato (Associate Professor, Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts) and coordinator of the art & science research group at the InArts Lab of Dept. Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, participates as a speaker with Dr. Olga Majcen Linn in the theme "Witchcraft-Science-Health".

The third Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2021, organized and promoted by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University had exceeded our expectations with more than 1.500 submissions.

Following the great success of the previous years, Women in Film and Television Greece (WIFT GR) and the Greek Film Archive present the 5th “50/50 EQUALITY IN CINEMA” WIFT GR FILM FESTIVAL, which is organised this year with the collaboration of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, under the auspices and with the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sport, and under the auspices of the Hellenic General Secretariat for Demography and Family Policy and Gender Equality. It takes place between 24 and 28 November 2021, on the occasion of the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25/11). all screenings and events of the Festival will be free of charge. Due to the pandemic, the Festival will be held online, at the screening platform of the Greek Film Archive online.tainiothiki.gr, with the exception of the opening night (24/11, at 19:00), which will take place in the great hall of the Greek Film Archive.

The team of the Pedagogical Sufficiency Program-PSP of the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts,  Ionian University, presents its novel game-based educational methodology on script-writing "Serious Film Fames" (S.FI.GA.) at the 11th International Conference in Open and Distance Learning-ICODL through two (2) paper presentations. The conference is held online from the 26th until the 28th of November 2021.