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).

Ghazal Ramzani, a Berlin-based Iranian dancer and choreographer, has completed groundbreaking research connecting indigenous dance practices to anti-colonial and ecological movements across Europe supported by Ionian University. Ramzani, who received funding through the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation program in 2024, traveled by train across Europe to interview practitioners of indigenous dances rooted in resistance movements. Ramzani holds a Master of Fine Arts in Contemporary Performative Arts from the University of Gothenburg and received formal training in Kathak dance at the National School of Kathak in New Delhi. She was previously awarded the Indian Council of Arts and Culture recognition and the Artisens Vanner scholarship.

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, from 09:00 to 13:00, the Municipal Library will host the presentation of the project Crossings by Stefania Oriente, as part of an open event dedicated to contemporary art and intercultural exchange.

AvSchool, the educational component of the 18th Audiovisual Arts Festival, was successfully concluded on Friday, May 16, 2025. The event was organized by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University in collaboration with the ERHMEE Lab of the Department of Music Studies.

AKOYSMATA is the annual series of events presented by the Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications (ΕΡΗΜΕΕ) in collaboration with the Laboratory of Performance Environments in the Arts (PEARL) at the Festival of Audiovisual Arts organized by the Department of AudioVisual Arts of the Ionian University. The concert includes pieces composed by faculty composers from the Department of AudioVisual Arts and the Department of Music Studies

AKOYSMATA is the annual series of events presented by the Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications (ΕΡΗΜΕΕ) in collaboration with the Laboratory of Performance Environments in the Arts (PEARL) at the Festival of Audiovisual Arts organized by the Department of AudioVisual Arts of the Ionian University. The concert includes pieces composed by students from the Department of Audio and Visual Arts and the Department of Music Studies.

"The Fellowship of Artists” returns... this time with a solo exhibition encountering a group exhibition. Each art form a different form of expression, conversing and interacting under the sound of images, under the silence of words. Where words become images, only to be words again... to become images again...

The AVARTS Live Game Hub is an action that aims to bring together new game designers and creators and promote their ideas to the public. It is organized by teachers of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts with a coordinating core of Vasileios Komianos, Varvara Garnelis, and Emmanouel Rovithis, and participated by students who are actively involved in creating games.

Undergraduate students of the Department of Audiovisual Art present their final projects as part of the 18th festival. The course examines the concept of performance through the development of visual arts, performance art, experimental theater, multimedia performance, and visual installations.

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The 7th International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges (DCAC 2025) is just around the corner, and this year marks a significant step forward in both scale and scope. The Conference will be held hybridly (in the Ionian Academy and online) and its sessions will be continuously streamed at the following address: https://avarts.ionio.gr/stream/

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University is pleased to announce the opening of the 18th Audiovisual Arts Festival, which will take place in Corfu from Thursday, May 8 to Sunday, May 18. On Thursday 08/05/2025 at 19:30 at the People's Garden (Gallery of the Municipality of Central Corfu) the opening of the 18th Festival of Audiovisual Arts (8 May - 18 May 2025) will take place.