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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 (...)

The third free computer game for blind children and adults, the Curve, is completed. The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University works on developing computer games for blind children, as part of the project LEAP (Listen-Learn-Play).

Open call for Papers and Artwork to the interdisciplinary conference: "TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE in Art and Science", Corfu Greece, 20-22 May 2016. Deadline for submitting abstracts: February 29, 2016.

The Foundation announces the twenty-second (22nd) annual Program of scholarships starting on October 1st, 2016 which is addressed to non-Greeks, University Professors of all levels (Ph.D. holders), Postdoctoral Researchers and Ph.D. Candidates.

The Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University offers a Doctoral Studies Programme which presents specialization in the main Department’s study fields. These study fields include forms of audiovisual expression, with the use of up to date technology and the technologies regarding the production of sound and image with emphasis on their application on the artistic, communicative and educational field.

Creativity, health and happiness are some of the warmest wishes for this festive season from the President of the Dept AVarts Dept, Associated Professor Andreas Floros, and Administrative staff, mrs. Niki Alevizaki and mrs. Georgia Apostolopoulou. The Secretariat of the Dept AVarts will remain closed from 24 Dec 2015 until 08 Jan 2016. Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Deadline: 20 Dec 2015 More info: dimiourgia.afisa@isotita.gr

Omega is a “strategic partnership” financed by the European Commission and coordinated by Yaşar University of Izmir. Its subject is the employability of arts graduates. In the course of the partnership 30 students and 10-15 teachers from the following European institutions will take part in an ‘intensive pilot course’ on Art and Music Students in Business. Deadline: 14 NOVEMBER 2015.

Τitle: The Door as Starting Point: on Semiotics of Space. date: 29 October 2015. time: 17:00 - 19:00. venue: Room 327, Chemistry Building, Msida Campus

The website welcome2ionio is online for new students 2015-2016.

Summer vacation period for the year 2015 lasts from August 3rd to August 28th, 2015.