General Events

Steven Bernstein, acclaimed filmmaker and fervent supporter of the Greek audiovisual and film productions, is about to visit Ionian University (3-5 May 2018). His 3-day visit on Corfu, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, includes an open seminar in the Assembly Hall of the Ionian Academy on Thurday May 5th, 2018 at 12 noon.

The Laboratory of Photography of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts invites you at the opening of the 13th Student Photography Exhibition, Friday the 4th of May, 2018, at 20.00, in the Prison of the Old Fortress.

The Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, with the support of the Fulbright Foundation in Greece, organize a lecture by Dr. Jennifer Germann, from the Department of Art History at Ithaca College, New York State, USA: “Engaging Dido And Lady Elizabeth: Feminist Interventions In The Past And For The Future”. The event will take place on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 - 7:00 pm. at I. Theotokis 72.

The Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, on the occasion of the 12th Audiovisual Arts Festival and in collaboration with the Municipal Art Gallery of Corfu, inaugurates the exhibition of the British visual artist Rob Kesseler on 30th of May 2018. [Images: © Rob Kesseler]

The 11th Sonic Arts Summer Academy & Festival is co-organised with the Region of the Ionian Islands, 10-15 July 2018.

Assistant Professors of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Apostolos Loufopoulos and Konstantinos Tiligadis, participate in the exhibition of the Greek section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA – Hellas) titled Theorimata which will be inaugurated for the first time on Thursday, February the 8th at 19:00 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST).

Within the framework of the course “Mathematics and Art”, taught by Assistant Professor Michalis Panagopoulos, a visit to the Herakleidon Museum in Athens will take place, on Friday, December 22, 2017.

On Thursday 25th of May 2017 (1 p.m. - 2.15 p.m., Room 3), ​Bill Psarras will deliver an initial lecture on his postdoctoral art research entitled "The interdisciplinary and intermedia impact of walking performance in the field of GeoHumanities", which will be realized in the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University with scholarship from IKY State Foundation (2017-2019).

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts and the Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory (ΕΡΗΜΕΕ) of the Department of Music Studies invite you to RETROSPECTIVE-IN-MEGARON event, which will take place within the framework of the 11th AUDIOVISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL AT ATHENS CONCERT HALL (MEGARON), on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st May 2017. THE RETROSPECTIVE-IN-MEGARON event is a joint production with the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron Bridges cycle) and in collaboration with the International Animation Festival, Animasyros.

The Audio & Visual Arts Department will present its course retrospectively in a digital art show which will be held at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) 20 to May 21, 2017. Sunday 21st of May 2017, 16:00-18:00 at the Conference Room 2, the 2D animation workshop entitled "Stop motion – animation" is taking place by the Assistant Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Konstantinos Tiligadis and by Ioanna Giakoumatou.

The Audio & Visual Arts Department will present its course retrospectively in a digital art show which will be held at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) 20 to May 21, 2017. The show will include selected works of graduate, postgraduate students, Phd students and professors, and works by internationally renowned artists. Saturday, May 20th 2017, 11.00 - 14.00, Conference Room 1, two workshops are taking place by G. Deligiannis, Assistant Professor. Sunday, May 21st 2017, Prof. N. Kanellopoulos will present “From Antikythera Computer to Quantum Computer: Augmented Reality and Art” (11.00-13.00, New exhibition hall-lower level) and D. Lejerskar “The evolution of the Augmented Reality Market & the Human – Computer Interaction Problem” (13.00-14.00,New exhibition hall-lower level).

The Audiovisual Arts Festival, that is taking place every May as an initiative of the Department of Audio-Visual Arts and the Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory[EPHMEE] of Ionian University, brings this year a large part of its activities in Athens, at the hospitable at the Athens Megaron. In this Festival the EPHMEE undertakes the presentation of electroacoustic music projects by means of a custom multichannel audio diffusion system, designed specifically for this series of concerts at Megaron's Banquet Room. The program of this presentation evolves in five thematically organised concerts that will be realised - three - on Saturday 20 and - two - on May 21. More information at the webpage AKOUSMATA:http://users.ionio.gr/~amlists/akousmata17/en/open_e.html

In the context of the masterclasses and lectures programme, Art and Digital Culture (RETROSPECTIVE-IN-MEGARON series of events), an intriguing lecture will be delivered by the renowned animator, graphic designer and illustrator, Theodore Ushev, under the title “The Empty Frame: the Diary of Erased Memories” on May 21, 2017 (6:30-8:30 pm) at Athens Concert Hall (Megaron).

In the masterclass and lectures programme, Art and Digital Culture, which will take place within the framework of RETROSPECTIVE-IN-MEGARON series of events, the internationally recognized British director, scenographer, screenwriter and producer, Barry J.C. Purves, invited in collaboration with BE THERE! Corfu Animation Festival, will give an interesting lecture on “Stop Motion and why it Works”.

On Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 at 11 a.m. (Room 3), Dr Partick Quinn, Senior Lecturer in Glasgow Caledonian University, will deliver a speech entitled “Interacting with Sound - Experiences from Glasgow”.

The Audio-Visual Arts Department will present its course retrospectively in a digital art show which will be held at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) 20 to May 21, 2017. The show will include selected works of graduate, postgraduate students, Phd students and professors, and works by internationally renowned artists.

Supported by the Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts), within the framework of the second international interdisciplinary conference "Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science", organized by the Ionian University from May 26-28, 2017, the book Institutional Critique to Hospitality: Bio Art Practice Now. A critical anthology (2017) by Grigori Publications, edited by Assimina Kaniari will be presented to the public.

As part of the events for the celebration of March 25th, the Rector of the Ionian University, Prof. Vasileios Chrysikopoulos, invites you to the speech of Stavros Vlizos on "Greek Revolution and Antiquities".

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University organizes for the second year in a row the interdisciplinary conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science", including theoretical and artwork presentations. In 26-28 May 2017 the conference will take place once more in the island of Corfu, Greece. Deadline for proposals: March 10, 2017.

The 11th Audiovisual Arts Festival 2017 expands in time and space. Artistic, scientific and educational activities will take place from May 20 to June 11, 2017.

Lecture of Ambassador of the Republic of Korea H.E. Youngjip Ahn: The speech, which is organized under the auspices of the Ionian University, will take place on Thursday, December 15th, 2016 at 18.00 at the Ionian Academy.

Assistant Professor of the School of Fine Arts at Florina Giannis Kastritsis presents his artistic work at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts. Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 20:00 Hall 3, Building "Aretaeus".

The work of Marianna Strapatsaki, artist and former Associate Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, was chosen to be presented to the exhibition entitled "Genii Loci, Greek Art from 1930 until nowdays " at St. Petersburg from November 30th 2016 until January 9th 2017.

We inform you that Monday, November 21st, 2016 and 10.00 to 12.00 a meeting about the chances of the Internship Era-Places in foreign universities will be held, in the Ionian Academy.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University took part in the development of computer games for blind children, within the Leap Project. Saturday, November 19th, 2016, the closing ceremony of the Project will be held in Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens.

The FIAT LUX Exhibition by Nikos Kokkalis is open to the audience daily 20:30- 22:30 until June 30, 2016.