Event Reviews

For those who didn't catch the movie screenings of the ICONA FESTIVAL 2024 or for those who would like to see the movies again, you are able to watch them on demand, available from December 17th until December 31st 2024: https://iconafestival.eu/vod

The Animation Festival ICONA 2021, which took place from the 2nd to the 5th of December 2021, exclusively online, by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, was successfully completed.

Τhe fourth international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" took place November 26–28, 2020, exclusively online as TTT2020 Vienna/Online, an umbilical cord between what would be and what it is. The event was an overall reconstruction of its original organization as a face to face experience at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti participated in the Tulane Philosophy Club organized in Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts, Department of Philosophy, New Orleans, presenting her research on the theme: "Melancholia: Sadness and Beauty in Video Game Environments", on October 21st, 2020. The lecture presented aspects of emotional design in the context of digital environments, and (...)

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 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.

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 Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University proclaimed the Archbishop of Athens, Hieronymus II, as an Honorary Doctorate. The proclamation ceremony was hold on Monday, December 12th, 2016, at 19:00 in the Ionian Academy.

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

The crew has been awarded for three consecutive years (2010, 2011 and 2012) with the first place in the general classification of Ionian Sea.

"Anastasia Mastrakouli, student at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, is taking the phrase body text literally. The young Greek artist crafted a typography series as graceful as it is sensual, dubbed Naked Silhouette Alphabet."

Students and faculty members of the Department of AudioVisual Arts successfully presented their works during the CREATIVE WALK events co-organized by the CREATIVITY FOR.TH and the Municipality of Thessaloniki.

The last three years, faculty members and students of the Ionian University have distinguished with their participation in national and international sailing competitions with the boat Burgundy GRE-1364. More information to support the effort provided by the site: http://www.gre1364.gr/.