Announcements

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 (...)

Submissions may concentrate on technical or cultural aspects or both, and should follow the format of submission of the DCAC call. The deadline for submissions is April 15th, 2021. Submissions via email at: zannos@gmail.com (cc'ed at av-dcac@ionio.gr)

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.

Postponement of Erasmus+ Incoming and Outgoing Mobilities - students and staff- for Spring Semester 2020-21 due to COVID-19

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.

Open Art announces the start of the 2nd course in the Spring Semester. The program is entirely distance learning and courses are delivered through modern and asynchronous educational technology.

The academic calendar for the year 2020-2021 is published with dates on tuition, exams and holidays.

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.

On Thursday, December 31st, 2020 and Friday, January 1st, 2021, the streaming of the projection mapping and the in situ performance which was created within the framework of the celebration by the Region of Ionian Islands for the 200th anniversary of the 1821 revolution took place. The artwork that will be projected, entitled "Sound and Light 1821 - 2021", was designed and implemented entirely by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University.

The Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Associate Professor Andreas Giannakoulopoulos and the Secretariat, Niki Alevizaki and Georgia Apostolopoulou wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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.

The screenings of the festival, which will take place exclusively online, from December the 4th until December the 6th, 2020, will be available worldwide only for registered users with password. * Please note that the screenings schedule has been announced in Central European Time (CET), that is GMT+1 zone. 

The second Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2020, organized and promoted by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University had exceeded our expectations with more than 1.200 submissions.

Τhe fourth international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" will take place November 26–28, 2020, exclusively online as TTT2020 Vienna/Online, an umbilical cord between what would be and what it is. Including theoretical and art practice presentations, TTT2020 continues to focus: (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and aesthetics of liminality as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science; (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. TTT2020 Vienna/Online will have one unique streaming channel with a 12 hours program/day followed by a recorded re-stream for audiences in other time zones. This means 24h a day for three days non-stop! The program of TTT2020 is divided in four categories in a total of twenty-three Sessions, six Roundtables, five ArtBox events and three Open Mic Q&A sessions.