Events

Apulia Film Commission will organize the second weekly part of the Screenwriting Workshop “Greece-Puglia Experience”, one of the activities of the project CIAK, from 9 to 15 October 2019 at Bari Cineporto.

The International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges was held in Corfu (Greece), May 10-11, 2019, hosted by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts (Ionian University). Full text submission deadline: 29/09/2019. Official website: https://avarts.ionio.gr/dcac/2019/

Assist. Professor Konstantinos Tiligadis participates as VJ in DOTS performance. Theater Rena Vlachopoulou, Mon Repos, Corfu, August 18th and 19th, 2019. Start time: 20:00.

The Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music Research & Applications [EPHMEE] and the Music Education and Music Psychology Group of the Music Department of Ionian University lend their ears to the Sound Environment and propose a series of educational, research and artistic activities, the last week of June, dedicated to the Soundscape we live in.

The Region of Ionian Islands, Project Partner of CIAK Project (“Common Initiatives to AcKnowledge and valorize tourism potential of the programme area through cinema”), will organize an Info Day in Corfu on Tuesday 4 June 2019, at 12:00 at the Boardroom of Region of Corfu (Sp. Samara 13, Corfu), in order to present the Project, its future activities and the next steps for its smooth implementation.

The two departments of the Faculty of Music and Audiovisual Arts, the 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 13th annual Audiovisual Arts Festival, held from May 6 το May 12, 2019, in Corfu. Official website: https://avarts.ionio.gr/festival

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.

The Info Day in the framework of the CIAK ("Common Initiatives to AcKnowledge and Valorize the Tourism Potential of the Program Area through Cinema") project was held with great success on Wednesday, February 13, 2019. In the context of the event, the project actions that are being implemented were presented in detail, with emphasis on the Memory Greece – Italy Call, which aims to finance 10 short film productions, the script-writing seminar, scheduled for three weeks in Corfu, Ioannina and Bari, and the forthcoming animation festival to be held in the city of Corfu.

Inauguration of the digital exhibition on the occasion of the final meeting of "BYZART - Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana" project will be held on the 15th of February 2019 at 10.30 a.m.

The Ionian University, Project Partner of CIAK Project, will organize an Info Day in Corfu on Wednesday 13 February 2019, at 17:00 at Ionian University premises (I. Theotoki 72, Corfu), in order to present the project and its future activities (Greece-Italy Memory Call, an international training seminar for editing and script processing). Special guest of this event the worldwide famous, award-winning director Alexander Avranas who will talk about the contemporary situation in the field of movie direction in Greece. Entrance is free to the public.

The final program of the Third Interdisciplinary Conference "Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science" has just been released. The conference is hosted by the Centro de Cultura Digital (CCD) on November 11th and by the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IIFs-UNAM) on November 12-13th.

The International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges was hold in Corfu (Greece) June 1st-2nd 2018, and was hosted by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts (Ionian University). Keynote speaker: Maurice Benayoun. New full text submission deadline: October 15, 2018.

The third international interdisciplinary conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" will take place in 11-13 November 2018 in Mexico City, hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Centro de Cultura Digital. Submissions are welcome from all art and research fields and cutting-edge technology in art research. Deadline for submitting abstracts and short CV: May 12th, 2018.

Accomplished visual artist and filmmaker of Eija-Liisa Ahtila was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, in a ceremony that took place in the Ionian Academy on Tuesday, June 5th, 2018.

The Honorary Degree Award Ceremony of Eija-Liisa Ahtila as an Honorary Doctorate of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts will take place Tuesday, 5th of June, 2018, in the Ionian Academy, at 12:00 o' clock.

The two departments of the Faculty of Music and Audiovisual Arts, the 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 12th annual Audiovisual Arts Festival, held from May 28 το June 10, 2018, in Corfu. During the Festival, Sottovocce will take place on 29-30/5, 1-2/6/2018 at Ionian Vouli.

For the 12th consecutive year the Audiovisual Arts Festival will take place in Corfu from Monday, May 28th to Sunday 10th June. The program is co-organized by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts and the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University, incorporating a wide variety of educational and artistic activities.

We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Genus” with artwork by the British visual artist Rob Kesseler, on Wednesday, May 30th 2018, 20:00 (8:00 pm), at the Municipal Art Gallery of Corfu.

Great premiere of the British-American film "Dominion" exclusively in the framework of the 12th Audiovisual Arts Festival of the Ionian University in Corfu, Ionian Academy, Saturday, May 12 at 21.00.

You are invited at the opening of the advanced drawing workshop exhibition, of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, that will take place at the Corfu Art Gallery, on Tuesday, 15th of May, 2018 at 20.00 pm. Exhibition duration: May, 15 - May, 24 2018. The exhibition is part of the 12th Audiovisual Arts Festival.

Steven Bernstein, acclaimed filmmaker and fervent supporter of the Greek audiovisual and film productions, is about to visit Ionian University (3-5 May 2018). His 3-day visit on Corfu, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, includes an open seminar in the Assembly Hall of the Ionian Academy on Thurday May 5th, 2018 at 12 noon.

The Laboratory of Photography of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts invites you at the opening of the 13th Student Photography Exhibition, Friday the 4th of May, 2018, at 20.00, in the Prison of the Old Fortress.

The Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, with the support of the Fulbright Foundation in Greece, organize a lecture by Dr. Jennifer Germann, from the Department of Art History at Ithaca College, New York State, USA: “Engaging Dido And Lady Elizabeth: Feminist Interventions In The Past And For The Future”. The event will take place on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 - 7:00 pm. at I. Theotokis 72.

The Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, on the occasion of the 12th Audiovisual Arts Festival and in collaboration with the Municipal Art Gallery of Corfu, inaugurates the exhibition of the British visual artist Rob Kesseler on 30th of May 2018. [Images: © Rob Kesseler]

The 11th Sonic Arts Summer Academy & Festival is co-organised with the Region of the Ionian Islands, 10-15 July 2018.

Assistant Professors of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Apostolos Loufopoulos and Konstantinos Tiligadis, participate in the exhibition of the Greek section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA – Hellas) titled Theorimata which will be inaugurated for the first time on Thursday, February the 8th at 19:00 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST).

Within the framework of the course “Mathematics and Art”, taught by Assistant Professor Michalis Panagopoulos, a visit to the Herakleidon Museum in Athens will take place, on Friday, December 22, 2017.