Events

Set sail!!! AnimaSyros International Animation Festival + Agora returns to Syros island, Cyclades, Greece on 24th-27th September 2015.

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios receives an Honorary Doctorate of the Ionian University.

Thursday, December 4th, 2014 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in classroom 3, the artist Max Philipp Schmid will present his project in a two-hour speech at the Department of Audio and Vidual Arts. Also, the curator Chantal Molleur will present a Swiss video-artist panorama.

Title of the exhibition: Frenetic Standstill Frenetic Standstill encompass three video installations; Wald (Forest 2007), Der Wanderer (The Wanderer 2007) and Das Gespenst des Glücks (The Ghost of Happiness 2011).

InArts Lab and the Municipal Gallery of Corfu present the project of the Associate Professor Marianne Strapatsakis. Opening: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014, 8 o'clock at Ionian Parliament. Duration of the exhibition: November 5th - December 5th, 2014. Visit hours: 18.00 - 20.00 (except from Mondays and holidays)

The fourth edition of the international competitive animation film festival "Be there! Corfu Animation Festival" will be held in Corfu.More information: www.betherefest.gr Facebook page: www.facebook.com/betherefest (...)

Elena Hamalidi as keynote speaker for the PDW for Arts and Culture 2014.

The exhibition "Myths, memories and mysteries: how artists respond to the past" of Video artist and Associate Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Marianne Strapatsaki is being presented at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, from 1st of July until 23rd of October 2014.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete cordially invites you to the exhibition: The ghosts of Mediterranean /Μarianne Strapatsakis. Exhibition duration until 4th of July 2014.

The inauguration of the exhibition of Drawing, Painting and Comic works by the students of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University will take place at the Municipal Gallery of Corfu (Palace of St. Michael and St. George) on Wednesday May 14, at 19:30. The exhibition will be open until Sunday May 18 and will be open 9.00–16.00.

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 once again jointly organize the 8th annual Festival of Audiovisual Arts.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University organizes, within the 8th Audiovisual Arts Festival “Ten Years of AVARTS” (May 14-18, 2014), a two-day symposium with title "Metamorphoses of corporeality: Art-Body-Technology" with theoretical and artιistic presentations, 16-17 May 2014.

The students of the Photo Lab of the Department of Audiovisual Arts exhibit their work. Duration of the exhibition: 9-30/5/2014

Two screenings dedicated to the history of German animation. Free entrance.

Amateur and professional photographers from Romania and from abroad can submit their photos in 3 of Photo Romania Festival’s different competitions. For before the 4thedition of the Photo Romania Festival – “the most important photography festival in Eastern Europe” according to The Telegraph – the organizers have set up three different competitions for photo enthusiasts, with a total prize sum of over 1.200 Euros.Festival Duration: 16-25 May

Lecture on contemporary Animation. Special Guest Vasilis Kroustallis, Artistic Director of the Be there! Corfu Animation Festival.

The Interactive Arts Lab presents Acting Seminars by George Nikopoulos. The lectures will take place on the following days: 26/03 - 2, 9 and 30 / 04-7 and 14/05.

Lecture on contemporary Animation. Special Guest Vasilis Kroustallis, Artistic Director of the Be there! Corfu Animation Festival.

Assistant Professor in the Avarts Dept. Konstantinos Tiligadisparticipates in the exhibition “Receptor – into the sack” focuses on things of significant personal value according to the way we choose to confess or hide them, in an outside-to-inside process. Monday 27th January, at 19:00. Duration of Exhibition: 27 January – 27 February 2014Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday 14:00 – 21:00

The Visual Dialogues 2013, which the Onassis Cultural Centre is staging for the third time, mark the 150th anniversary of the birth and 80th anniversary of the death of the great poet, C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933). Participating artist is the graduate of the AVarts Dept. Bill Psarras.

Photo Exhibition "Ithaca 2013" until 19th January 2014. Curator of the exhibition: Anastasia Mastrakouli, student from the Department of Audio and Visual Arts.

On Friday 17th January, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at the Department of Audiovisual Arts will take place a lecture based on contemporary art. Guest Speaker: Kostas Christopoulos, artist.

On Thursday 16th January 2014 at 9:00 p.m. will be held a lecture on contemporary art for the course History of Art II entitled The 4th Biennale of Athens.

The seminar will be held on Monday 9th December and Tuesday 10th December 2013.

Organized visits for students from all the Departments of the Ionian University in productive institutions and organizations, for the cultivation of students' contact with the business world.

Marianne Strapatsakis, painter and video artist, is participating in two major art events in France and in England.

The seminar will be held during September - October 2013. Dates will be announced soon. Official Website VWS: avarts.ionio.gr/vws

Photo Exhibition «Points of View»: 19th until 30th May 2013 at Corfu Old Fortress.

3-day events entitled Cinema as an Open Language.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts and the Department of Music Studies (Lab for Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications - EPHMEE) of the Ionian University organize the 7th Audiovisual Arts Festival 2013, 20-30 June 2013, at Corfu.