General Announcements

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.

On Thursday, November 25th, 10:00am (classroom 11), as part of the course "THE906-Practice of Exhibition Design", we will have the pleasure to have Dr Adam Zaretsky with us on a guest lecture entitled “IT'S ALIVE! Understanding bio-art: art and biology exhibited”.

Associate 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 "Burnt Paths" which takes place at Ectopia – Laboratory of Experimental Art (Rua José Sobral Cid 16) until December 20th, 2021 (Mondays and Wednesdays between 10am and 4pm). 

Οn Saturday, November 13, 2021, at ca. 10:00 pm (Greek time), members of the AVARTS Team of EASTN-DC will perform the telematic dance piece "IDE Fantasy" at the Musica Nova Festival in O'culto da Ajuda, Lisbon and at the Sound / Performance Studio of the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts. 

The deadline for the submission of full papers for the works presented in DCAC-2021 has been extended up to November 15th, 2021 (hard deadline).

Two sound installations created by Luc Messinezis, PhD candidate (Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts), will be presented as part of the 17th Athens Digital Art Festival (ADAF), which will take place from the 13th until the 17th of October at the Museum of Modern Greek Culture and other locations around the area of Monastiraki and Plaka. The 1st artwork is called "Flowers" and the 2nd "Natural Perversion [Physical Edition]".

OPEN ART celebrates the success of the ARTIST LAB program by participating in the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival. OPEN ART is an innovative Training, Education and Lifelong Learning program of the Ionian University in the field of Arts, Technology, Science, Society, in collaboration with the Athens Digital Arts Festival. Stay tuned. A rich program of OPEN ART actions at the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival awaits you.

Dalila Honorato, Associate Professor at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, recently joined the new Editorial Organism group of the journal "Technoetic Arts" published by Intellect. The journal founded in 2003 by Honorary Professor Roy Ascott, publishes three issues each year.

Associate Professor Dalila Honorato, coordinator of the art & science research group at the InArts Lab of the Dept. Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, participates as a speaker at the conference SLSA2021 ONLINE "Energy" on September 30th, 2021 (time 9:00-10:30 EDT).

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.