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The 10th ANIMART – experiential art school and forum on contemporary creativity will take place at Delphi, between the 16th and the 24th of July, 2016. University teachers from Greece and other countries will participate, promoting cultural exchanges, innovative creativity and inter-disciplinary dialogue.

Online article about research for interactive TV conducted by Dr Ioannis Deligiannis of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, published by the Athens News Agency Macedonian Press Agency.

Call For Papers - Presentations and papers are invited from artists, scientists and theorists in all fields. CONSCIOUSNESS REFRAMED 2016 will take place between 26th and 27th November, in DeTao Shanghai CCIC Building, 699 Wenhui Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai. Deadline for abstracts and proposals: 10th July, 2016.

Department of Audio & Visual Arts participates in this year's Art Athina by presenting works of 12 graduates and students of the Department.

The altsantiri.gr re-posted an article by the Athens News Agency/Macedonian News Agency about augmented reality in the museums by researchers of the Ionian University.

The special ceremony for the nomination of Professor Stelarc as Honorary Doctorate of the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts was successfully completed today 18/5/2016 at Ionian Academy.

The special ceremony for the nomination of Professor Roy Ascott as Honorary Doctorate of the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts was successfully completed today 18/5/2016 at Ionian Academy.

Τhe 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 10th annual Festival of Audiovisual Arts, held from May 17 to May 22 2016 in Corfu. Festival's schedule (updated 15/05/2016): http://avarts.ionio.gr/festival/2016/en/schedule/

Having been established on 2004 and following twelve years of presence in the Greek Academia, the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of Ionian University will have the honor to nominate as the first Honorary Doctors of the Department, Professor Roy Ascott and Professor Stelarc.

The 11th Photography Exhibition of the Photography Workshop of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University, will take place from 11 to May 25, 2016. Opening: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 20:00, Old Fortress Prison.

An exhibition with audiovisual material and documents from the recent project of the famous Cypriot-Australian artist Stelarc, begins on May 18th, 2016 at the Municipal Gallery of Corfu (Old Town). The exhibition takes place within the activities of the 10th annual Audiovisual Arts Festival organized by Ionian University (May 17th – 22nd, 2016) and will remain open to the public until May 23rd.

Under the 10th Audiovisual Arts Festival special thematic workshops are organized:Open and free online participation form [UNTIL 06/05/2016]

The Promo Video of the 10th Audiovisual Arts Festival has been published. Contributor: Marianna Strapatsaki: Art Direction, Dalila Honorato: Script, Chara Sakellari: Animation, Apostolos Loufopoulos: Sound Design. 10th Audiovisual Arts Festival Promo Video

The Academic Calendar 2016-2017 has been announced.

The Supplementary exams period 2015-2016 has changed. New supplementary exams period: From 08/09/2016 to 30/09/2016.

Eight unique women will be awarded by the "EXALEIPTRON" Piraeus Group Women in Arts, Letters, Culture, Science. Marianna Strapatsaki, artist and former Associate Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, will be awarded with the Prize for the Art of New Media.

Dr Adam Zaretsky, well-known bioartist and professor at Marist College, New York, USA, will perform a Bioart workshop, within the 10th Audiovisual Arts Festival, taking place in Corfu during May 2016.

"Ethnos" online re-posted an article by the Athens News Agency Macedonian Press Agency for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

The Doctor of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University, Konstantinos Drosos, was elected President of the Finnish IEEE Signal Processing and Circuits & Systems Chapter.

The computer games' tournament for blind and partially sighted students, implemented within the LEAP project, has begun.

Bill Psaras, alumnus and adjunct professor of the Department of Audiovisual Arts, participates in "Nice!" Exhibition. Duration: 16 March-4 April 2016, curated and edited by Yiannis Grigoriadis and Yiannis Isidorou. Production: Lo and Behol.

The course of Advanced Drawing of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts organizes a group show with students' work under the theme: “Improbable Probabilities - 10 variations on a theme” [8-19 March 2016]. The opening event will take place at Corfu Gallery on Tuesday March 8, 2016 at 20:00.

NEON scholarships are offered to young arts practitioners and students. Application Deadline: 29 April 2016.

Groundbreaking pioneers of contemporary art and science will be this year’s keynote speakers for the international interdisciplinary conference of the Ionian University taking place in Corfu: British Roy Ascott, Australian with Cypriot origin Stelarc, (both winners of "Golden Nica" at Ars Electronica), and Greek astrophysicist Dr Manos Danezis.

Spring semester classes starting: Monday, February 8th, 2016. Direct download link: Courses Schedule Spring 2015-2016. For more information concerning the Courses Schedule, please contact av-orologio@ionio.gr.

Participation in the Drawing Contest is simple and requires no financial obligations of the students, on the contrary the 3 best student artists are awarded financially and the 15 best drawings are exposed in 4 prestigious locations. The Drawing Contest is a yearly international contest where students from minimum 450 art universities and university colleges worldwide are invited to create a drawing related to fair play in university sport.

The Language Projectteam is organizing a two-day introductory subtitling workshop. Application Deadline: 15/2. Date of Workshop: 25-26/2.

LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art) is delighted to announce a major scholarship to support undergraduate and postgraduate students from Greece, supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Discrimination for Katerina Avraam at ASIFA Hellas Animation Contest for her work entitled The Ordeal

On the occasion of the religious holiday of the Synaxis of the Three Hierarchs it will be celebrated a liturgy at the Holy Apostle Jason and Sosipater Church located in Anemomilos, Corfu Town, at 8:00 a.m., with the participation of the students and professors of the MA with specialization in Byzantine Music from the Department of Music Studies, Faculty of Music and Audiovisual Arts, Ionian (...)