General Announcements

Nikos Kokkalis presents the series DEITIES in “Ochre- Blue” gallery, Limnos. The paintings, watercolors employing mixed media, focus on the female figure and make reference to the pictorial forms she has been “clothed” in across different periods in the history of art. These almost transparent figures constitute mixtures of the human and the natural; they recount their myths, floating in uncertain (...)

The summer holidays period for the administrative services of the Ionian University will last until August 16th, 2021.

The 14th Audiovisual Arts Festival programme completed with great success its artistic, educational and scientific activities. The live activities lasted 18 days, from 13 to 31 May 2021. The steering committee of the 14th Audiovisual Arts Festival warmly thanks its audiences for their support to all the actions throught these days: the particularly encouraging comments strengthen the efforts for the next Audiovisual Arts Festival!

The desire to start a "normal" new year is strong. For this reason, we urge all students and staff to be vaccinated, if they have not already done so, and in this way to strengthen the hope of returning to the desired academic normalcy. Safely, individually and collectively.

Dr. Iakovos Panagopoulos will present his research in MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium “Provoking Practice: new forms of reach, impact and significance. Exploring the Cultural Value of Creative Practice Research Reach, Impact and Significance.”. The MeCCSA Practice Network champions practice within the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association, ensuring that those that teach (...)

Angeliki Malakasioti, Assistant Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, participates in Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021, organized by the School of Creative Media, CityU, from 10th to 14th June, 2021, with talk and artwork presentation titled: Self:Nous:Space - Visual and Textual Metaphors of Digital Experience, which will take place online on (...)

All the material (video projections) of the 14th Audiovisual Arts Festival and the 3rd International Conference Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges [DCAC-2021] that has already been screened is available in every presentation until June 30, 2021.

The European Art Science Technology Network, Digital Creativity (EASTN-DC) at the 14th AudioVisual Arts Festival. May 26 - May 30, 2021.

AV-school, the series of seminars and workshops of the Audiovisual Arts Festival, is taking place online this year from 24 to 27 May 2021. Among others, instructors at AV-school 2021 are the guest-artists: Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Barbara Douka, Adam Zaretsky and Marta de Menezes.

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti and Associate Professor Apostolos Loufopoulos participate in ELO 2021 Conference and Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic which is organized by The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), Aarhus University, Digital Aesthetics Research Center (DARC), The Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group (BEL), Washington State University Vancouver‘s Electronic (...)

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti participates in the conference Uncommon Senses III: The Future of the Senses, which is organized by Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 6-9 May, 2021. Her talk is titled: “Design Studios: For/Through/Within technological transcendencies” and will take place virtually on Sunday 9th May on 9.30 (Montreal/Eastern Standard Time or (...)

Submissions may concentrate on technical or cultural aspects or both, and should follow the format of submission of the DCAC call. The deadline for submissions is April 15th, 2021. Submissions via email at: zannos@gmail.com (cc'ed at av-dcac@ionio.gr)

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti participates in the book launch “Modified: Living as a Cyborg”, Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera, Steven Mentor (eds.), Routledge, 2021, presenting her work “Seven Ghosts: Critical Confessions of a Psyborg Mind”. The event will take place on March 7th, 1 pm to 2:30pm (Pacific Standard Time), as part of the annual Social Fictions Conference, with (...)

On Wednesday 17/02/2021 Dr. Iakovos Panagopoulos (Academic Scholar of Audio Visual Arts Department) is invited by UCLan's Centre for Field Archaeology and Forensic Taphonomy to present his field research work with StoryLab (Skills Training for Democratised Film Industries) in Bakersfield California.

Postponement of Erasmus+ Incoming and Outgoing Mobilities - students and staff- for Spring Semester 2020-21 due to COVID-19

On Monday 08/02/2021 and Friday 12/02/2021 Dr. Iakovos Panagopoulos is invited by Prof. Erik Knudsen and University of Central Lancashire to run a workshop with Prof. Knudsen organized by the Institute of Citizenship Society and Change of University of Central Lancashire. The title of the workshop is "Participatory Online Stakeholder Engagement-POSE and aims at training the U.C.Lan. teaching stuff.

Open Art announces the start of the 2nd course in the Spring Semester. The program is entirely distance learning and courses are delivered through modern and asynchronous educational technology.

The academic calendar for the year 2020-2021 is published with dates on tuition, exams and holidays.

In April 2020, artists Robertina Šebjanič, Louise Mackenzie, Karolina Żyniewicz and Isabel Burr Raty were invited by Dalila Honorato (Associate Professor, Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts)  to develop research on the theme of “Staying in Touch: post-coronavirus art curating” as part of the collaborative digital art residency Braiding Friction. The article entitled "Staying in Touch: case study of artistic research during the COVID-19 lock-down" is published in the e-journal "Artnodes: Journal on Art, Science and Technology, No 27 (2021). Arts in the Time of Pandemic (Guest-editors: Laura Benítez & Erich Berger).

"2021: Window to the Future" Article by Emeritus Professor Nikolaos Kanellopoulos, published in the website of the Committee Greece2021 for the landmark anniversary of 200 years since the Greek Revolution of 1821.

On Thursday, December 31st, 2020 and Friday, January 1st, 2021, the streaming of the projection mapping and the in situ performance which was created within the framework of the celebration by the Region of Ionian Islands for the 200th anniversary of the 1821 revolution took place. The artwork that will be projected, entitled "Sound and Light 1821 - 2021", was designed and implemented entirely by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University.

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