General Events

The 10th ANIMART – experiential art school and forum on contemporary creativity will take place at Delphi, between the 16th and the 24th of July, 2016. University teachers from Greece and other countries will participate, promoting cultural exchanges, innovative creativity and inter-disciplinary dialogue.

Department of Audio & Visual Arts participates in this year's Art Athina by presenting works of 12 graduates and students of the Department.

Τhe Department of Audio and Visual Arts (AVARTS) and the Department of Music Studies (Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Lab, EPHMEE), of the Ionian University join once again forces in order to organize the 10th annual Festival of Audiovisual Arts, held from May 17 to May 22 2016 in Corfu. Festival's schedule (updated 15/05/2016): http://avarts.ionio.gr/festival/2016/en/schedule/

Having been established on 2004 and following twelve years of presence in the Greek Academia, the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of Ionian University will have the honor to nominate as the first Honorary Doctors of the Department, Professor Roy Ascott and Professor Stelarc.

The 11th Photography Exhibition of the Photography Workshop of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University, will take place from 11 to May 25, 2016. Opening: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 20:00, Old Fortress Prison.

An exhibition with audiovisual material and documents from the recent project of the famous Cypriot-Australian artist Stelarc, begins on May 18th, 2016 at the Municipal Gallery of Corfu (Old Town). The exhibition takes place within the activities of the 10th annual Audiovisual Arts Festival organized by Ionian University (May 17th – 22nd, 2016) and will remain open to the public until May 23rd.

Under the 10th Audiovisual Arts Festival special thematic workshops are organized:Open and free online participation form [UNTIL 06/05/2016]

Eight unique women will be awarded by the "EXALEIPTRON" Piraeus Group Women in Arts, Letters, Culture, Science. Marianna Strapatsaki, artist and former Associate Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, will be awarded with the Prize for the Art of New Media.

Dr Adam Zaretsky, well-known bioartist and professor at Marist College, New York, USA, will perform a Bioart workshop, within the 10th Audiovisual Arts Festival, taking place in Corfu during May 2016.

Bill Psaras, alumnus and adjunct professor of the Department of Audiovisual Arts, participates in "Nice!" Exhibition. Duration: 16 March-4 April 2016, curated and edited by Yiannis Grigoriadis and Yiannis Isidorou. Production: Lo and Behol.

The course of Advanced Drawing of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts organizes a group show with students' work under the theme: “Improbable Probabilities - 10 variations on a theme” [8-19 March 2016]. The opening event will take place at Corfu Gallery on Tuesday March 8, 2016 at 20:00.

Groundbreaking pioneers of contemporary art and science will be this year’s keynote speakers for the international interdisciplinary conference of the Ionian University taking place in Corfu: British Roy Ascott, Australian with Cypriot origin Stelarc, (both winners of "Golden Nica" at Ars Electronica), and Greek astrophysicist Dr Manos Danezis.

The Language Projectteam is organizing a two-day introductory subtitling workshop. Application Deadline: 15/2. Date of Workshop: 25-26/2.

On the occasion of the religious holiday of the Synaxis of the Three Hierarchs it will be celebrated a liturgy at the Holy Apostle Jason and Sosipater Church located in Anemomilos, Corfu Town, at 8:00 a.m., with the participation of the students and professors of the MA with specialization in Byzantine Music from the Department of Music Studies, Faculty of Music and Audiovisual Arts, Ionian (...)

Open call for Papers and Artwork to the interdisciplinary conference: "TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE in Art and Science", Corfu Greece, 20-22 May 2016. Deadline for submitting abstracts: February 29, 2016.

Τitle: The Door as Starting Point: on Semiotics of Space. date: 29 October 2015. time: 17:00 - 19:00. venue: Room 327, Chemistry Building, Msida Campus

As part of the Summer Music Academy 2015, this Saturday, July 18th at 22:30, a representation of the work: architectural projection mapping Variations on Construction" will take place at St. George's Church inside the Old Fortress of Corfu.

Information is widely available and accessible, but frequently leads to information overload and overexposure, while the effort for coding, storing, hiding, securing, transmitting and retrieving it may be excessive. Intelligence is required to manage information and extract knowledge from it, inspired by biological and other paradigms. Multimedia Systems and Networks, with an increasing level (...)

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts (AVARTS) and the Department of Music Studies (Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Lab, EPHMEE) of the Ionian University once again jointly organize the 9th annual Festival of Audiovisual Arts.

The “Kostis Palamas” program and the the Department of Audio and Visual Arts organizes a School of seminar courses dedicated to the theme of “Art and Communication” in cooperation with the 9th Festival of Audiovisual Arts. Participation is free and after the completion of these intense courses, the trainees will receive a certificate of attendance. Αpply for participation (priority order will be served): http://kostispalamas.uoa.gr/?page_id=1557

Sound In Motion symposium is organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts and ERHMEE (Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory) of the Ionian University in collaboration with EASTN (European Art Science Technology Network). It constitutes of concerts of electroacoustic music, audiovisual events and presentations, which will take place in Corfu, between 27-30 May 2015, at the Old Ionian Parliament.

Set sail!!! AnimaSyros International Animation Festival + Agora returns to Syros island, Cyclades, Greece on 24th-27th September 2015.

Thursday, December 4th, 2014 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in classroom 3, the artist Max Philipp Schmid will present his project in a two-hour speech at the Department of Audio and Vidual Arts. Also, the curator Chantal Molleur will present a Swiss video-artist panorama.

Title of the exhibition: Frenetic Standstill Frenetic Standstill encompass three video installations; Wald (Forest 2007), Der Wanderer (The Wanderer 2007) and Das Gespenst des Glücks (The Ghost of Happiness 2011).

InArts Lab and the Municipal Gallery of Corfu present the project of the Associate Professor Marianne Strapatsakis. Opening: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014, 8 o'clock at Ionian Parliament. Duration of the exhibition: November 5th - December 5th, 2014. Visit hours: 18.00 - 20.00 (except from Mondays and holidays)

The fourth edition of the international competitive animation film festival "Be there! Corfu Animation Festival" will be held in Corfu.More information: www.betherefest.gr Facebook page: www.facebook.com/betherefest (...)

Elena Hamalidi as keynote speaker for the PDW for Arts and Culture 2014.

The exhibition "Myths, memories and mysteries: how artists respond to the past" of Video artist and Associate Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Marianne Strapatsaki is being presented at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, from 1st of July until 23rd of October 2014.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete cordially invites you to the exhibition: The ghosts of Mediterranean /Μarianne Strapatsakis. Exhibition duration until 4th of July 2014.

The inauguration of the exhibition of Drawing, Painting and Comic works by the students of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University will take place at the Municipal Gallery of Corfu (Palace of St. Michael and St. George) on Wednesday May 14, at 19:30. The exhibition will be open until Sunday May 18 and will be open 9.00–16.00.