The Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Professor Nikolaos Kanellopoulos, and the Secretariat wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Our warmest wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, full of health and creativity - The Dean of the Faculty of Music and Audiovisual Arts, Associate Professor Andreas Floros.

Within the framework of the course “Mathematics and Art”, taught by Assistant Professor Michalis Panagopoulos, a visit to the Herakleidon Museum in Athens will take place, on Friday, December 22, 2017.

The animation feature film THEOX by Giorgos Nikopoulos, graduate and Phd Candidate at Audio & Visual Arts Departments of Ionian University, will have a wordwide premiere at Olympion Cinema Theater, on Thursday, November 9th at 18.00 during the 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and will be repeated on Saturday 11th at 17.30, at Tonia Marketaki Cinema Theater located, Apothiki D, Port of Thessaloniki.

Graduation Ceremony Timetable for all the Departments of Ionian University during November 2017.

Dr. Dalila Honorato, member of the Interactive Arts Laboratory, will talk for the 'Semiotics of the Uncanny', followed by a discussion facilitated by Isabel Burr Raty. Saturday, October 21st 2017, 16h-19h, 4th floor, a.pass Research Center.

The Academic Calendar 2017-2018 has been announced.

See mentors of undergraduates for the academic year 2017-2018 in the page Mentors.

GeNeDis 2018 Special Session: On human enhancement and genome editing: the scope of Art & Science. Organizers: Dalila Honorato and Antonia Plerou. Paper submission deadline for Special Sessions: May 20, 2018.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University offers the Postgraduate Programme "Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age" for the academic year 2017-2018. Submission deadline: September 15th, 2017, 14:00 hs.

The Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University is glad to announce the 2nd Corfu Summer School in Hybrid Arts following last year's program. Composed by a series of intensive theoretical and/or practical seminars, tagged as courses and activities, the 2nd Corfu Summer School in Hybrid Arts develops in a nine days program scheduled June 2-10, 2018. Official website: http://avarts.ionio.gr/summer

Call for teaching proposals at the Ionian University by young researchers holding a PhD, in the implementation of "Obtaining Academic Teaching Experience for Young Researchers Doctorate Holders" program.

The Corfu Summer School in Hybrid Arts will begin in May 29th, 2017, integrating both Greek mythological inspiration connected with the Ionian Islands and the (almost) unlimited possibilities of new media. Official Website: http://avarts.ionio.gr/summer/

The schedule [.v16] of the Interdisciplinary Conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" has been updated.

Well-known personalities 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: Gunalan Nadarajan, Irina Aristarkhova, Luis Graca, Marta de Menezes, Roy Ascott, María Antonia González Valerio, Andrew Carnie, Polona Tratnik, Adam Zaretsky and Kathy High. Conference TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE in Art and Science (TTT2017). Official Website: http://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt

On Thursday 25th of May 2017 (1 p.m. - 2.15 p.m., Room 3), ​Bill Psarras will deliver an initial lecture on his postdoctoral art research entitled "The interdisciplinary and intermedia impact of walking performance in the field of GeoHumanities", which will be realized in the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University with scholarship from IKY State Foundation (2017-2019).

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts and the Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory (ΕΡΗΜΕΕ) of the Department of Music Studies invite you to RETROSPECTIVE-IN-MEGARON event, which will take place within the framework of the 11th AUDIOVISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL AT ATHENS CONCERT HALL (MEGARON), on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st May 2017. THE RETROSPECTIVE-IN-MEGARON event is a joint production with the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron Bridges cycle) and in collaboration with the International Animation Festival, Animasyros.

The Audio & Visual Arts Department will present its course retrospectively in a digital art show which will be held at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) 20 to May 21, 2017. Sunday 21st of May 2017, 16:00-18:00 at the Conference Room 2, the 2D animation workshop entitled "Stop motion – animation" is taking place by the Assistant Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts Konstantinos Tiligadis and by Ioanna Giakoumatou.

The Audio & Visual Arts Department will present its course retrospectively in a digital art show which will be held at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) 20 to May 21, 2017. The show will include selected works of graduate, postgraduate students, Phd students and professors, and works by internationally renowned artists. Saturday, May 20th 2017, 11.00 - 14.00, Conference Room 1, two workshops are taking place by G. Deligiannis, Assistant Professor. Sunday, May 21st 2017, Prof. N. Kanellopoulos will present “From Antikythera Computer to Quantum Computer: Augmented Reality and Art” (11.00-13.00, New exhibition hall-lower level) and D. Lejerskar “The evolution of the Augmented Reality Market & the Human – Computer Interaction Problem” (13.00-14.00,New exhibition hall-lower level).

The Audiovisual Arts Festival, that is taking place every May as an initiative of the Department of Audio-Visual Arts and the Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory[EPHMEE] of Ionian University, brings this year a large part of its activities in Athens, at the hospitable at the Athens Megaron. In this Festival the EPHMEE undertakes the presentation of electroacoustic music projects by means of a custom multichannel audio diffusion system, designed specifically for this series of concerts at Megaron's Banquet Room. The program of this presentation evolves in five thematically organised concerts that will be realised - three - on Saturday 20 and - two - on May 21. More information at the webpage AKOUSMATA:http://users.ionio.gr/~amlists/akousmata17/en/open_e.html

In the context of the masterclasses and lectures programme, Art and Digital Culture (RETROSPECTIVE-IN-MEGARON series of events), an intriguing lecture will be delivered by the renowned animator, graphic designer and illustrator, Theodore Ushev, under the title “The Empty Frame: the Diary of Erased Memories” on May 21, 2017 (6:30-8:30 pm) at Athens Concert Hall (Megaron).

Photo Lab of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts invites you to the opening of the 12th Student Photo Exhibition on Friday the 12th of May, 8 p.m. at prisons of Old Fortress.

In the masterclass and lectures programme, Art and Digital Culture, which will take place within the framework of RETROSPECTIVE-IN-MEGARON series of events, the internationally recognized British director, scenographer, screenwriter and producer, Barry J.C. Purves, invited in collaboration with BE THERE! Corfu Animation Festival, will give an interesting lecture on “Stop Motion and why it Works”.

On Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 at 11 a.m. (Room 3), Dr Partick Quinn, Senior Lecturer in Glasgow Caledonian University, will deliver a speech entitled “Interacting with Sound - Experiences from Glasgow”.

The Audio-Visual Arts Department will present its course retrospectively in a digital art show which will be held at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) 20 to May 21, 2017. The show will include selected works of graduate, postgraduate students, Phd students and professors, and works by internationally renowned artists.