Members' Activities

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.

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. 

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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.

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.

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.

Professors I. Zannos, A. Loufopoulos, A. Floros and T. Valianatos partticipate via their works and research presentations at the fesival 'InSonic 2020', which is held online employing new broadcast technologies. The festival explores new formats and artistic practises, and this year is hosted by the ZKM-Herz Lab, in cooperation with EASTN-DC European Art-Science-Technology Network for Digital Creativity).

Apulia Film Commision Foundation organizes a 3 days online workshop for Italian and Greek operators in the frame of CIAK project.The initiative aims to explore the national and international evolution related to the new cinema and audiovisual productions and television industry, in addition to the new trends and distribution media.

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti participated in the Tulane Philosophy Club organized in Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts, Department of Philosophy, New Orleans, presenting her research on the theme: "Melancholia: Sadness and Beauty in Video Game Environments", on October 21st, 2020. The lecture presented aspects of emotional design in the context of digital environments, and (...)

On October 14th, 2020 (time 10:15-11:45 EDT), Assistant Professor Dalila Honorato, coordinator of the art & science research group at the InArts Lab of the Ionian University, participates as a speaker at the conference ISEA2020 ONLINE "Why Sentience?".

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti and Honorary Doctorate Stelarc participate in the collective work “Modified: Living as a Cyborg”, Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera, Steven Mentor (eds.), Routledge, 2020, with artwork presentation and book chapters: “Seven Ghosts: Critical Confessions of a Psyborg Mind” (by Angeliki Malakasioti) and “Zombies, Cyborgs and Chimeras: (...)

Dalila Honorato, Tenured Assistant Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, participates in the organization of FEMeeting 2020 Garden at the Ars Electronica 2020 Festival. "FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology", orchestrated by artists Marta de Menezes and Dalila Honorato in 2017, aims to disseminate works by women (ie people who self-identify (...)

Participation of the PhD Candidate of the Department of Audio & Visual arts, Luc Messinezis, with the work Procession of the Simulacra,  at Sound Campus Programme of Ars Electronica 2020, Linz, Austria, 9-13 September 2020. Luc Messineszis' “Procession of the Simulacra. A journey through hyperreality in four movements”, was officially selected for presentation as part of Ars Electronica (...)

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Angeliki Malakasioti, publishes book-essay "The Poetics of Melancholic Space", by Mov Skiouros Publications. Athens, 2020 Pages 1-104  ISBN: 978–618–5476–01–4 Synopsis: Though soul-driven, the melancholic condition contains an inherent relationship with space. The aspects, structures, (...)

Assistant Professor Dalila Honorato participates in the exhibition "Trans(form)ar" gathering the works of the year of 2019’s activities at Cultivamos Cultura in Portugal.