Open Art announces the start of the 2nd course in the Spring Semester. The program is entirely distance learning and courses are delivered through modern and asynchronous educational technology.

The academic calendar for the year 2020-2021 is published with dates on tuition, exams and holidays.

In April 2020, artists Robertina Šebjanič, Louise Mackenzie, Karolina Żyniewicz and Isabel Burr Raty were invited by Dalila Honorato (Associate Professor, Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts)  to develop research on the theme of “Staying in Touch: post-coronavirus art curating” as part of the collaborative digital art residency Braiding Friction. The article entitled "Staying in Touch: case study of artistic research during the COVID-19 lock-down" is published in the e-journal "Artnodes: Journal on Art, Science and Technology, No 27 (2021). Arts in the Time of Pandemic (Guest-editors: Laura Benítez & Erich Berger).

FACTT 20/21: Trans-disciplinary & Trans-national Festival of Art & Science opens on January 28 2021, at 8.30 PM (GMT) and will be exhibited online during 2021 with different events to be announced taking place throughout the year across continents.

The Museum of the Ionian University, with Director the Associate Professor of the Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology Stavros Vlizos, and the Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, with Director the Associate Professor Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, organize online tribute for the eighty years since the death of JAMES JOYCE. The artist and director Vouvoula Skoura curates the tribute, with the co-operation of the Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Elena Hamalidi. Online tribute: https://joyce.inarts.eu/

"2021: Window to the Future" Article by Emeritus Professor Nikolaos Kanellopoulos, published in the website of the Committee Greece2021 for the landmark anniversary of 200 years since the Greek Revolution of 1821.

On Thursday, December 31st, 2020 and Friday, January 1st, 2021, the streaming of the projection mapping and the in situ performance which was created within the framework of the celebration by the Region of Ionian Islands for the 200th anniversary of the 1821 revolution took place. The artwork that will be projected, entitled "Sound and Light 1821 - 2021", was designed and implemented entirely by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University.

The Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Associate Professor Andreas Giannakoulopoulos and the Secretariat, Niki Alevizaki and Georgia Apostolopoulou wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Τhe fourth international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" took place November 26–28, 2020, exclusively online as TTT2020 Vienna/Online, an umbilical cord between what would be and what it is. The event was an overall reconstruction of its original organization as a face to face experience at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.

Professors I. Zannos, A. Loufopoulos, A. Floros and T. Valianatos partticipate via their works and research presentations at the fesival 'InSonic 2020', which is held online employing new broadcast technologies. The festival explores new formats and artistic practises, and this year is hosted by the ZKM-Herz Lab, in cooperation with EASTN-DC European Art-Science-Technology Network for Digital Creativity).

Apulia Film Commision Foundation organizes a 3 days online workshop for Italian and Greek operators in the frame of CIAK project.The initiative aims to explore the national and international evolution related to the new cinema and audiovisual productions and television industry, in addition to the new trends and distribution media.

On Monday, December 7th, 2020, at 17:00 CET, an Informational Event (Promotional Event) will be held within the framework of the CIAK project ("Common Initiatives to AcKnowledge and valorize tourism potential of the programme area through cinema"). This informational event, which will take place online https://ciak.inarts.eu/, will host a detailed presentation of the already completed actions within the framework of the project.

The screenings of the festival, which will take place exclusively online, from December the 4th until December the 6th, 2020, will be available worldwide only for registered users with password. * Please note that the screenings schedule has been announced in Central European Time (CET), that is GMT+1 zone. 

The second Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival ICONA 2020, organized and promoted by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University had exceeded our expectations with more than 1.200 submissions.

Τhe fourth international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" will take place November 26–28, 2020, exclusively online as TTT2020 Vienna/Online, an umbilical cord between what would be and what it is. Including theoretical and art practice presentations, TTT2020 continues to focus: (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and aesthetics of liminality as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science; (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. TTT2020 Vienna/Online will have one unique streaming channel with a 12 hours program/day followed by a recorded re-stream for audiences in other time zones. This means 24h a day for three days non-stop! The program of TTT2020 is divided in four categories in a total of twenty-three Sessions, six Roundtables, five ArtBox events and three Open Mic Q&A sessions.

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti participated in the Tulane Philosophy Club organized in Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts, Department of Philosophy, New Orleans, presenting her research on the theme: "Melancholia: Sadness and Beauty in Video Game Environments", on October 21st, 2020. The lecture presented aspects of emotional design in the context of digital environments, and (...)

On October 14th, 2020 (time 10:15-11:45 EDT), Assistant Professor Dalila Honorato, coordinator of the art & science research group at the InArts Lab of the Ionian University, participates as a speaker at the conference ISEA2020 ONLINE "Why Sentience?".

Assistant Professor Angeliki Malakasioti and Honorary Doctorate Stelarc participate in the collective work “Modified: Living as a Cyborg”, Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera, Steven Mentor (eds.), Routledge, 2020, with artwork presentation and book chapters: “Seven Ghosts: Critical Confessions of a Psyborg Mind” (by Angeliki Malakasioti) and “Zombies, Cyborgs and Chimeras: (...)

The Interactive Arts Laboratory 'inArts' of the Department of Audiovisual Arts of the Ionian University participates in the 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival with 70 works by undergraduate, graduate students, students of the newly established OPEN ART Lifelong Learning Program, graduates and faculty. The Exhibition is taking place in Asomaton square and the pedestrian street of Ermou (THISIO Station), from Thursday, October 8 until Sunday, October 18.

The 4th World Congress on Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research “GeNeDis 2020″ entitled ‘Health in Aging and Mental Wellness in the new digital era’ will be held exclusively online, 8th to 11th October, 2020. GeNeDis 2020 is oranized by the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Lab (BIHELab) of the Department of Informatics, Ionian University, under the patronage of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mrs Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

Mentors of undergraduates for the academic year 2020-2021 are available at the webpage: Mentors

Interreg Greece-Italy project CIAK -in which the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University is a main partner and contributor- is finalist in the Slam Video Competition 2020. Please help to get “likes” to the video and win the social media award.