Announcements

The academic calendar for the year 2019-2020 is published with dates on tuition, exams and holidays.

The Academic Senate of Ionian University (Corfu, Greece)  has made the difficult decision to postpone all incoming and outgoing mobilities scheduled for the Winter Semester of the academic year 2020-2021 to the next Spring Semester or the next academic year, due to COVID-19. We believe this decision is in the best interest of the students given the current circumstances, and truly hope that (...)

OPEN ART, a Training and Lifelong Learning Program of the Ionian University (KEDIVIM) offers for free a complete Art Practice program in the fields: Arts, Technology, Sciences, Society, with the practical contribution of the Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF).

Considering the ongoing spread of SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) all over the World and under these unforeseen circumstances, the Organizing Committee of the DCAC 2020 is forced to announce the cancellation of the conference.

Following the recent developments on COVID-19 current outbreak, we would like to inform you that for the moment no cases have been confirmed inside the academic community of Ionian University. However, Ionian University is undertaking specific preventative measures based on the Ministerial decisions issued on the temporary closure of all schools and universities in the country.

The Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University Professor Nikolaos Grigorios Kanellopoulos participates in the Government Committee “Greece 2021” on the bicentennial of the declaration of the Greek War of Independence (1821).

Assistant 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 "Com(posto)" gathering the works of the year of 2019’s activities at Cultivamos Cultura in Portugal.

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) is pleased to offer two fellowships to Greek Universities’ junior faculty members (Adjunct Lecturers, Lecturers or Assistant Professors) and Scientific and Laboratory Teaching Staff who hold a PhD (“ΕΔΙΠ” and "ΕΕΠ"), from Schools of Humanities and Social Sciences, in order to join the Harvard Summer Program in Nafplio and Thessaloniki, Greece.

The artist Francesco Kiàis, collaborator of InArts Lab, has been invited at the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK (Venice, 15-18/1/2020). The Department of Audio and Visual Arts and the Interactive Arts Lab (InArts) will collaborate as cultural partners.

Ionian University / Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts was selected by the Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program (GDFP) to host an scholar from Canada to work with on a collaborative project on Game Audio, Sound Design and Augmented Reality Audio. Professor Andreas Floros will lead the project, together with Prof. Bill Kapralos, a Fellow from University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Ontario, Canada.

The Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Professor Nikolaos Kanellopoulos, and the Secretariat wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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.

The PhD Candidate of the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts, Luc Messinezis, participates at the minus20degree Festival of Art & Architecture in Flachau, Austria with his work Amalgama (23 - 25 January 2020).

The Ionian University, Project Partner of CIAK Project, organized the third and last weekly part of the Screenwriting Workshop in Corfu, Greece on November 26 – December 1, 2019 at the Audiovisual Arts department premises. During the three weekly workshop sessions (hosted in Ioannina, Bari and Corfu respectively), 15 ascendant cinema screenwriters from all over the world attended intensive courses and gained personal supervision towards the development of their personal scenario.

The first Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2019, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University (within the framework of the CIAK Intereg program) took place in Corfu from the 29th of November until the 1st of December 2019.

The organizing committee of the Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2019 would like to call on all students who so wish to take part in the Festival’s team of volunteers and support the organization, thanks to their own special knowledge and skills. Closing date for applications: November 24th, 2019.

The first Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2019, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University within the framework of the CIAK Interreg program under the scientific supervision of Assistant Professor Michalis Panagopoulos, had a great participation with almost 1.000 submissions of movies. Although competition was fierce, the committee's work was successfully completed with a selection of 135 films - 72 short films and 63 student films – from 48 countries.

The first Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2019, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University (within the framework of the CIAK Intereg program), had a great participation with almost 1.000 submission of movies. 

The ebook with the proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science 2018 was published by the Ionian University - Department of Audio & Visual Arts in November 2019. This digital publication includes 20 contributions, in English, proposed and accepted by the scientific and artistic committee of TTT2018. Edited by Dalila Honorato, María Antonia González Valerio, Marta de Menezes and Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, this is the second and main core of the presentations of TTT2018.

The aim of the first Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2019, which is organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University (within the framework of the CIAK Intereg program) is to present the best from the field of animation from all around the world. The festival also aims to preserve and help develop the cultural heritage of short animated film, contribute to creation of new films, provide ground for potential international co-productions and encourage dialogue between professionals, filmmakers and the public.

Mentors of undergraduates for the academic year 2019-2020 are available at the webpage: Mentors

The first part of the proceedings of TTT2018 has been released by Intellect Books as a special issue of Technoetic Arts, vol. 16 issue 3. Authors: Sixto Castro, Graydon Wetzler, Hege Tapio, Adam Zaretsky, Dolores Steinman - David Steinman, Matej Vakula, Sofia Falomir, Maro Pebo, Polona Tratnik, Linus Lancaster, Jenifer Wightman, Miguel Oliveros, Ebru Yetiskin, Dimitrios Traperas - Nikos Kanellopoulos and Yi-Chen Wu. Also, images by the Conference and Events have been uploaded.

International & Public Relations Department of the Ionian University has new and modern website. In the sections of the new website one can find information on public and international relations and information on the Erasmus program and internships.

Myths are living stories that grow with time, change, adapt, but continue being a source for thought, inspiration and creativity. The interactive audiovisual theatrical performance INRIRI questions the adaptation of an archetypal myth at a time of many dimensions and levels with elements from physical theater and embedded interactive technology in the performing space.

Interreg V-A Greece-Italy Programme launches an amateur video competition to celebrate the European Cooperation Day! Participants will have to make a very short video (maximum duration: 40 seconds) responding very briefly to the question: Why EUROPE IS YOU?? (how Europe benefits you), which is the slogan of the EC DAY 2019 campaign. The deadline is 30 June 2019.

Apulia Film Commission Foundation organised a press conference yesterday at Bari Cineporto, in order to present “Memory” call- winning directors in the frame of Greece-Italy cooperation project CIAK. Simonetta Dellomonaco, President of Apulia Film Commission Foundation, announced the names of the 10 winning under-35 directors.

The Greece – Puglia Experience Screenwriting Workshop Participants Evaluation Results have been announced. According to the rule concerning the geographical origin of the participants (5 from Apulia region, 5 from Ionian Islands, Western Greece, Epirus and 5 from Other regions) the committee has selected 2 participants from Greek regions, since only 2 over 6 candidates scored more than 50%.

The Embassy of Mexico send the call for entries to participate in the International Environmental Short Film Festival ECOFILM, which will take place in Mexico from September 29th to October 6th 2019. The deadline for submissions is June 27th 2019.