The Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University organizes the 8th International Conference Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges (DCAC-2026) which will be held in hybrid way - online and in the Ionian Academy in Corfu (Greece), on May 8-9, 2026. DCAC-2026 will again afford an exceptional opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, offering a worldwide connection between researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, facilitating partnerships across national and disciplinary borders. 

Emmanouel Rovithis,  and Agnes Papadopoulou, will present at the European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2025) the design and the qualitative evaluation of the educational game “The Other Half”, a collective dialogue-writing game aimed at raising awareness on Active Citizenship. The title of the presentation is: “Art and Education: Cultivating Active Citizenship through Game-Based Storytelling.” The talk will be delivered by Dr. Emmanouel Rovithis, lecturer and researcher at the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts.

The Master of Research in Hybrid Arts (MARes) invites you to a talk by Professor Vasileios Karyotis, Head of the Ethics and Research Deontology Committee of the Ionian University and Associate Chair of the Department of Informatics, on Monday, November 4, 2025 at 16:00 (4:00 p.m.) on the topic Ethics Release Procedures in Academic Research.

The 23rd Festival “Days of Electroacoustic Music” will take place on October 17–19 in Ioannina. The festival is organized by the Hellenic Association of Electroacoustic Music Composers (HELMCA) in collaboration this year with the Department of Architecture (University of Ioannina) and the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Ioannina (DIPETHE Ioannina). Representing the Ionian University, the PEARL Laboratory of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts collaborates with the ERHMMEE Laboratory of the Department of Music Studies in the implementation of this year’s festival program.

Invited by the Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, and within the framework of the International Scientific Conference “Society. Technologies. Solutions.”, held under the umbrella of E³UDRES² SCIENCE in Valmiera, Latvia, Dr. Emmanouel Rovithis, lecturer and researcher at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, will deliver a talk titled: “Hyper Kafka: Rooms of Memory — An Immersive Hypertext Fiction Installation for Teaching and Disseminating Literature.” The course is taught by Agni Papadopoulou, Emmanouel Rovithis, and Vasilis Komianos, teaching staff of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts.

The Master of Research in Hybrid Arts (MARes) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University announces the 5 members of the Coordinating Programme Committee composition for the academic year 2025–2026 with Assistant Professor Maria Chalkou, as Director (Oct 1, 2025 – Sept 15, 2026).

Participation of Associate Professor Hari Marini, at the Conference ‘Anthropocenic Performativity & Performance: Poetry, Environment, New Technologies and AI’ In the context of the three-day Conference ‘Anthropocenic Performativity & Performance: Poetry, Environment, New Technologies and AI’ organised by the University of Patras, Hari Marini, Associate Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, will serve as a member of the Scientific Committee, as well as presenting a video performance entitled: “Spirals: Turning Points” by PartSuspended (https://www.partsuspended.com/).  The Conference will take place on 12, 13 and 14 December 2025, at the Archaeological Museum of Patras. 

MARes Visiting Professor Dr. Adam Zaretsky and MARes 2024–2025 student Angelina Almukhametova participate in the Art Science Salon: BioArt at the University of Puget Sound (USA) in Oct 23, 2025. Their involvement highlights MARes’s active role in international collaborations connecting artistic research with biotechnological and hybrid art practices.

The first talk in the series will be given by MARes student Eeva-Liisa Puhakka on Thursday, October 23, at 4:00 PM (Athens time). Eeva-Liisa will present the latest developments in her project, “Currents of Smell and Signal: From the Barents Sea to the Beyond”, exploring smell as a sociocultural indicator and translating olfactory experiences into multisensory narratives.

The Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts Lab) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University is pleased to welcome back the Master of Research (MARes) in Hybrid Arts 2024-2025 student Nathalie Dubois-Calero for the second phase of her residency as part of the Artist-in-Residency (AIR2025) program at the Node of Hybrid Arts.

From October 10 to 12, the creative factory Veldze (Matīsa Street 8) in Riga will host one of the first international olfactory art festivals in Europe — the Scent Art Festival 2025. The MARes 2024–2025 student Eeva-Liisa Puhakka (Finland) will take part in the opening exhibition with her scented sound installation Leave the body, leave the mind, presented alongside works by artists from around the world.

ICONA 2025 is organized and promoted by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University. ICONA 2025 will take place in hybrid mode, in Ionian Academy (Akadimias and Kapodistriou Str - Corfu) and online,  from November 13th to November 16th 2025.

With contributions across paper sessions, roundtables, performances, and the exhibition Coining Utopias, members of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts (AVARTS), Ionian University, took active part in the 6th edition of TTT, held in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from 9 to 13 September 2025.

The Center for Historical and Folklore Research “Apollon” (Karditsa) and the Department of Early Childhood Education/ University of Thessaly, in collaboration with the Region of Thessaly, the Municipality and the Chamber of Karditsa, are organizing the 9th Panhellenic Conference on Dance and Folklore, titled: “Dance in the Community: Rituals, Festivities, Feasts, Education,” which will take place in Karditsa, September 26–28, 2025.

At the international conference Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT2025), held on 9–13 September 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Department of Audio and Visual Arts marked the beginning of a new chapter in international cooperation.

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, and Panagiotis Sdoukos, performer and PhD candidate at the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, present the digital audiovisual performance “E(D)ros and Helen” at the IFPA 7, themed "Homelands– Return to Hora”, they and will give a lecture on “The Homeland and Eterotopy of Folk Performance in the Audiovisual Arts” (September 25, 2025).

The sixth international conference Taboo–Transgression–Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT2025) has come to a close in Slovenia, after five days of intense exchange between artists, scholars, and members of diverse creative communities. Hosted at Kino Šiška, the event was organized in partnership with Zavod Projekt Atol, the Ionian University, and the Pixxelpoint 2025 festival in the context of GO!2025 European Capital of Culture Nova Gorica–Gorizia, with contributions from Kapelica Gallery, Cirkulacija 2, and the Museum of Architecture and Design, and with the support of the Greek Embassy in Ljubljana, the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, the City of Ljubljana, and the University of Nova Gorica.

The Ionian Islands Development Agency (ANION Α.Ε. OTA), in collaboration with the Public Library of Lefkada, organizes the event “The Dances and Songs of the Ionian Islands: Lefkada, Kefalonia, Corfu, Zakynthos”. The keynote lecture will be given by Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University. Scientific and artistic supervision: Renata Dalianoudi. The event takes place on Sunday, 21 September 2025, 17:30, at the Reading Room and Garden of the Public Library of Lefkada.

InArts Lab at the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, is proud to announce that TTT2025 Ljubljana will host the world premiere of the films directed by Serafim Parsaloglou Marathias, student of the Department, documenting the last editions of TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC) and the TTTfellows Art & Science Residency. Produced in the framework of the Ionian University’s contribution to the Rewilding Cultures project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the films testify to a radical and collaborative ethos as supported by Adam Zaretsky and Dalila Honorato. Event Hours: 09.09.2025 (18:00–22:00), 10–12.09.2025 (09:00–21:00), 13.09.2025 (12:00–18:00).

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Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at TTHE, invited at the radio documentary “Exploring European History: The Music of the 19th Century in Greece”, talks about the Philhellenism, the Eptanesian School, and the Greek National Music School, with reference to composers and emblematic works of the era. Sunday, August 31, 2025, 9–10 a.m.

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, discusses opera and the National Music Schools in Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Russia) during the Romantic period (19th century), within the framework of the radio documentary “Exploring European History: The Music of the 19th Century in Europe”. Broadcasting: Sunday, August 24, 2025, 9–10 a.m.

The Board of Governance of the Ionian University decided on the announcement for the admission of foreign-alien students to the Department of Music Studies, in the Music Performance and to the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Undergraduate Study Program, in accordance with the provisions of Article 58 of 5094/2024 (Α΄ 39), for the academic year 2025-26. The period for submission of candidacies is set from 22/07/2025 to 22/09/2025.

The Lyceum Club of Greek Women of Chalkida, in collaboration with the  Municipality of Chalkida, presents a tribute to the musical and dance tradition of the zournás, from antiquity to the present day. Scientific supervision and presentation by Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor, Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University. Date and time: Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, at 8:30 p.m. Venue: Lyceum Club of Greek Women of Chalkida Hall, Mallios Square.

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Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University and Director of the Institute for the Greek Music Heritage (IEMK), is representing the Institute at the International Conference of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), taking place in Salzburg, 6-11 of July, 2025. As part of the official conference program, Professor Dalianoudi is presenting the exhibition “I think it’s time we listened… The ΙΕΜΚ at the Ghika Gallery”, with a paper entitled: “From the Silent Musical Archives to the Audio-Visual Representation of Musical Documents in a Museum. Case Study: the Exhibition ‘I think it’s time we listened… Τhe IEMK at Ghika's Gallery”.

We are looking for writers and researchers to contribute chapters to the upcoming Feral Labs Node Book #3: Fa Fa Futures — the final volume of the Rewilding Cultures project (Creative Europe, 2021–2026). Each writer will be paired with one Feral Labs institution and provided with curated documentation (reports, images, transcripts, contextual notes) to produce a reflective, research-informed chapter.

The first inter-institutional podcast featuring the presentation of two Departments — the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University and the Department of Audiovisual Mesns & Informatics of the University of Barcelona — took place during Renata's  Dalianoudi visit, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, as a visiting professor via the ERASMUS program, at the Dept. of Audiovisual Means & Informatics at the University of Barcelona. Date: April 10, 2025.

Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris III), and the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) are organizing the International Conference EUPOP 2025 “United in Diversity”, which focuses on European popular culture and its various forms. The conference will explore topics such as the boundaries of popular culture, politics, forms of propaganda and influence, as well as methodological issues, all through an interdisciplinary approach. Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, will represent the Ionian University as the keynote speaker of the panel, with a presentation titled: “From the Imported Discs of Copland in the ’50s and the European Rock of the ’60s to the Political Anti-American Songs of the ’70s: A Musicological and Cultural Approach to Greek Musical Identity of the Era.” Dates: July 3–5, 2025.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University’s School of Music and Audiovisual Arts announces the Master of Arts by Research (MARes) in Hybrid Arts for the academic year 2025-2026. Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications exclusively online at https://future.ionio.gr/mares/ by Thursday, July, 10, 2025, at 16:00 (CET).