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

Mentors of undergraduates for the current academic year are: Michalis Panagopoulos 1st year students Andreas Giannakoulopoulos 2nd year students Konstantinos Tiligadis  3rd year students Apostolos Loufopoulos 4th year students Spyridon Verikios 5th year students Ioannis Deligiannis on degree More (...)

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 website welcome2ionio is online for new students 2014-2015.

Selected video works created by students from the Audiovisual Arts Festival 2014 were screened at the Festival de Cinema de Avanca, Portugal, which took place during 18-27 July 2014.

The calendar of the academic year 2014-2015 has been updated, including the important dates of both academic semesters, the exam and holiday dates.

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 External Evaluation Report by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency for the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University has been published.

Discrimination for Nikolas Grigoriou who designed the corporate identity of the Department's Alumni Association.

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 works of the graduate student Dimitris Argiriou entitled "Dinner" and "One Line" were screened on Opening Nights in Athens, Short Film Festival in Drama and over 20 world festivals and won awards in Europe and America.

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.

The Proceedings of the two-day symposium Art and Interculturality in the Mediterranean Region have been published by Fagotto Books, with ISBN 978-960-7260-51-2. The proceedings ebook is available at: Fagotto Books

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

The External Evaluation Report by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency for the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University has been published.

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.