General Events

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.

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.