Announcements

Angelos Floros participates in the 10th S.ARCH international conference that takes place this year in Berlin at The SOCIAL HUB BERLIN from April 4th to 6th. The theme of the conference is "Architecture and the Built Environment". The conference is webcast.   Useful links: Telecast links Conference Program Book of abstracts   Mr. Floros participates with the presentation (...)

Ionian University Library & Information Centre publishes the monthly bulletin on the productivity of Ionian University's researchers, based on Scopus and MDPI.

The 1st International Festival of Short Documentaries ended on Monday 30 January. The festival was organised by the Creative Documentary Centre of Kalamata and the Kalamata Municipality, hosting guests and participants from 32 countries.

Assistant professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Angeliki Malakasioti has received the Amps-Intellect Mediated Cities Award for her research video 'Video Game Environments and Depression'. The video was initially composed and presented as part of the AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) Mediated City Conference organized by the University of the West of England and Intellect (...)

The fifth international conference Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science will take place September 27–29, 2023 in Valletta, Malta. TTT is an interdisciplinary and nomadic event, where both practitioners as well as theorists present and discuss the status of art-science and/or art & technology. TTT, created by Dalila Honorato, Assoc. Professor, Dept Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, is based on the support of a large informal network of international researchers and practitioners that develop their activities at the edge of art and science intersections. The conference language is English. Proposals must be sent electronically through the EasyChair submissions system until January 31st, 2023.

Ionian University Library & Information Centre publishes the monthly bulletin on the productivity of Ionian University's researchers, based on Scopus and MDPI.

While the call for proposals to the conference Taboo – Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science 2023 taking place at the Malta Society of Arts in Valletta is open until the end of January 2023, the main core of the proceedings of TTT2020 Vienna/Online have just been released in an open access publication in digital format (e-Book), with ISBN number 978-960-7260-70-3.

Do you want to understand and design digital Augmented Reality applications? Can you imagine visiting the museum in a different, more interactive way? The University Museum in collaboration with the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, offers to the general public the "Creative Workshop of Interactive Educational Experiences in the Museum using Augmented Reality".

The year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Greek-born pioneer composer and thinker Iannis Xenakis, and is accompanied worldwide by events dedicated to his memory and work. To honour this Greek-born musician, a marathon concert takes place at Athens Conservatory, on Saturday 17 December, presenting works inspired by his musical work and his reflections on science and technology and the role of muscles in society and the arts. This event, which takes place at the Athens Conservatory from 7 pm until 3:30 am the following day, features musicians and artists from ten different countries (Greece, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Japan, Mexico, England, Ireland, Germany, Turkey, United States).

On Wednesday December 14th, 2022, (17:00-19:00 pm), Dr. Dalila Honorato, and Dr Tania Tsiridou, docents of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, invite you to the guest lecture “The body as text: the interaction between body and technology in performance art” by the post-doc researcher Dr. Eleni Kolliopoulou. The lecture will be hybrid (room YK3 and online), within the frame of the course "Semiotic Analysis of New Media" of the Postgraduate Programme in Audiovisual Arts "MA: Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age". It is supported by the Laboratory of Interactive Arts (InArts Lab).

The Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University organized the 4th International Conference Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges (DCAC-2022) which took place on Friday 13 May 2022 online and on Saturday 14 May 2022, hybrid at the Ionian Academy in Corfu (Greece). Deadline extension for full text submission: 15 December 2022 

The 2nd AVARTS Live Game Hub takes place on the 6th of December 2022 and welcomes anyone who wants to play games designed by new game designers and developers and to participate in a creative dialogue concerning ideas, technologies, and approaches that make games more attractive. The event is organized by teachers of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts with a coordinating core of Vasileios (...)

On Monday, December 5th, 2022, in Aretaios Building-room 3, of the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts – Ionian University, from 11:00 to 13:00, Assoc. Prof. Dalila Honorato and Art Staff Christina Mitsani have the pleasure to invite you to the guest-lecture “Storyfronts an interactive storytelling documentary and video game” by the Canadian visiting-artist Elizabeth Littlejohn. This lecture is organized as part of the "THE302-Philosophy & Media Aesthetics" and "VIS130-Analogue Drawing", and is supported by the Interactive Arts Laboratory, the Program for the design of an Erasmus+ MA in Art, Science and Health, and the Gender Equality Committee of the Ionian University. 

The fourth Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2022, organized and promoted by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University had exceeded our expectations with more than 1.300 submissions.

Ionian University Library & Information Centre publishes the monthly bulletin on the productivity of Ionian University's researchers, based on Scopus and MDPI.

In the context of the research activity of the Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, the Art Boulevard search engine, an academic project that aims to assist with the diffusion of Art and Culture related content, while at the same collecting useful information about the needs and wants of people looking for such content online. 

Deadline: October 10th, 2022

On Tuesday, October 11th, 2022, in room YK1 of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts – Ionian University, from 18:30 to 20:00, as part of the course "THE702 Multimedia Semiotics IΙ", Assoc. Prof. Dalila Honorato invite you to the lecture “Current trends in Gender and Sexuality and their influence on Media and Fashion” by the US guest-speaker Dr. Sharna Striar. This lecture is supported by the Interactive Arts Laboratory, the Program for the design of an Erasmus+ MA Art, Science and Health, and the Gender Equality Committee of the Ionian University.

The META-Xenakis global symposium will be held online on September 30 and October 1, 2022, by various educational institutions across 5 countries all over the world connected via the web.

Mentors of undergraduates for the academic year 2022-2023

The Audiovisual Signal Processing Laboratory EP.OA.SI. of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts successfully presented its research projects at the 86th Thessaloniki International Exhibition. The participation of EP.OA.SI. in the Pavilion of the Ionian University comprised the interactive demonstration of applications for mobile devices (tablets), aiming at education and entertainment, based (...)

Angelos Floros, Assistant Professor of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, participates in the Conference, Symposium "The Art and the Design of XR Reality", action of the ERASMUS XR Multiplier Event organized by the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with Onassis Stegi Cultural Center. Angelos Floros participates with the presentation of the (...)

Angelos Floros, assistant professor of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, presents the lecture 'Art in the Information Age' on Sunday, September 23 at 6pm. at the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival 'Futuretro'. The lecture is online and presented from the ADAF page. By registering the public, it is possible to actively participate with questions. Active participation requires (...)

Released in July 2022, the new book published in Zagreb, Croatia, by KONTEJNER, with title Arc-hive: Case Studies and Life as an Object, includes the article “Digital Semiotics for Biomedia Art” by Associate Professor of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University Dalila Honorato. The book, with ISBN 978-953-7985-11-0 and editors Ena Hodžić, Olga Majcen Linn, Jurica Mlinarec and Luja Šimunović, is digitally available for free download.

A new international and transdisciplinary Master of Arts programme on the topic of Art, Science and Health will be showcased, tested and evaluated during a one-week Pilot Course held online in English language for a maximum of 40 participants, from Monday, November 7, to Friday, November 11, 2022, every day from 5.00 p.m. CET. Participation is free of admission.

Four participations from the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University this year at the international conference "FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology": Associate Professor Mrs. Dalila Honorato presenting “Meet HAL: Hub of Arts Laboratories and how to do lab networking”, special teaching staff Mrs. Christina Mitsani (Special Educational Personnel), PhD candidate Mrs. Styliani-Anna Klimatsaki and the postdoctoral researcher Dr Marina Markellou. As a highly international community, the program of FEMeeting 2022 “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” includes 95 presentations by 109 speakers from 27 countries as well as other activities to encourage communication among its participants. Taking place from 12 to 17 September 2022, the third conference has its kick-off in Lisbon, at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, and continues its program in the city of Évora, hosted in the Convento de São Bento de Castris and the Fundação Eugénio de Almeida.