The 17th Audiovisual Arts Festival, a central event of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts (AVARTS) of the Ionian University, ended on Sunday (02/06) with great success and large public attendance. For 10 days (May 23 – June 2, 2024) an original program of artistic, scientific and educational events provided the city of Corfu with new cultural experiences, gaining the attention of the academic and the local community.

The 17th Festival of Audiovisual Arts and the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts (AVARTS) of the Ionian University conclude on Sunday (02/06) at the Old Psychiatric Hospital with the following events.

  A new collective volume titled "Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture," by editors Angeliki Malakasioti, Assistant Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual and Image Arts at the Ionian University, and Chara Kokkiou, Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane University, has been just published by Routledge (2024). The book is part of the Routledge Research in Art History (...)

AVARTS Live Game Hub is an action aiming to bring together new game designers and creators and showcase their ideas to the public. It is organized by teachers of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts with a coordinating core of Vassilis Komianos, Varvara Garnelis, and Emmanuel Rovithis, and is staffed by students who are actively involved in creating games. It focuses on the game design and play (...)

An amateur theatre company struggling to put on a production of Pirandello's "Leonora, addio!" finds its members constantly at odds with each other, while at the same time having to follow the instructions of an authoritarian director who presents their play as nothing less than a gift from God.

Applications are now open for TTTlabs: BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC) III - Fall 2014, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Ionian University within the Feral Labs Network. Dedicated to issues related to new reproductive technologies, TTTlabs: BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC) III under the theme New Repro-FlaOctomingopus (NR-FO) - Non-Human Bioart/Bodyart on the Beach is taking place on 15-25 September 2024 (on-place) in Crete. 

AVARTS Live Game Hub is an action aiming to bring together new game designers and creators and showcase their ideas to the public. It is organized by teachers of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts with a coordinating core of Vassilis Komianos, Varvara Garnelis, and Emmanuel Rovithis, and is staffed by students who are actively involved in creating games.

The VR film that represented Greece at the 59th Venice Art Biennale is shown in an installation specifically designed for the Ionian Parliament as part of the Audio Visual Arts Festival 2024.

Students and graduates of the Ionian University present a tribute exhibition in memory of Iro Feidia, AVARTS graduate. The aim is to display her illustrative and digital artwork, but also to portray her as an individual, fellow student and friend. Despite her time being short, the plurality and diversity of her work is remarkable.

AKOYSMATA, is the general title for the series of events presented every year by the Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications [EPHMEE] in collaboration with the Laboratory of Performing Arts in Arts [PEARL] of the Faculty of Music and Audiovisual Arts of the Ionian University. AKOYSMATA24 are starting on Friday 24 and finishing on Friday 31, May 2024 and are part of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts’ 20th anniversary celebration.

Τhe opening of the 17th Festival of Audiovisual Arts (23 May – 02 June 2024), which is the central anniversary event of the celebration of 20 years of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts (AVARTS) of the Ionian University, will be held on Thursday 23/05/2024 at 19:30 in the People's Garden.

The Department of Audio & Visual Arts, of the Ionian University in Corfu organizes the 6th International Conference Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges: Interdisciplinary Creativity in Arts and Technology (DCAC- 2024, May 24-25). 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/

We are pleased to invite you to an exciting public event organized as part of the "AVA641-Multimedia and Gamification" course offered by the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts. The event will take place on Thursday, May 23, 2024, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the HAL:Gamification Lab, Ionian University Central Library (entrance from the back of the library building). Speakers: Associate Professor Ioannis Deliyannis (Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University), Vitor Lemos (University of Aveiro), Dr. Pavel Varacha (Institute of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University), Professor Roman Jašek (Head of the Department of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Applied Informatics,Tomas Bata University).

The Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University, on the occasion of the 17th Audiovisual Arts Festival inaugurates on 28 May 2024 at 11:00 am the exhibition “Mutagenic Futures”, with artworks by artists Ken Rinaldo and Adam Zaretsky.

The 17th Festival of Audiovisual Arts celebrates this year the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts (AVARTS) of the Ionian University, presenting an extroverted, dynamic, and rich program of artistic, scientific, and educational events that fills the city of Corfu with images and sounds. The opening of the festival is the central anniversary event and will take place on Thursday (23/05) at 19:30 in the People's Garden.

PEARL (Performative Environment Art Research Lab) of the Department of Audiovisual Arts of the Ionian University and TOPLAP Athens present a research report and demo followed by a networked live coding concert: Telematic live coding performances in SuperCollider using OscGroups. Date: Tuesday, May 21, Time: 20:00 EET.

In the context of the 17th Audiovisual Arts Festival and the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, the "LiteRArt" Club celebrates its 2 years of operation with the Opening of the Exhibition "Artists’ Awakening", on Friday, May 31, 2024 (18:00) at the Library and Information Centre of the Ionian University.

As part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University and the 17th Audiovisual Arts Festival, the 17th Student Photography Exhibition is taking place at the Old Fortress of Corfu.

As part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University and the 17th Audiovisual Arts Festival, the following student photography exhibition is taking place at the Old Fortress of Corfu: "Family Relations": An exhibition by Antonis Pappos that includes selected images from the photo albums of Georgoudakis and Pelster families.

With that in mind, four Laboratories from three Greek Universities (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of the Aegean, and Ionian University) have collaborated to organise the biannual International Digital Storytelling Festival (DST-Zakynthos) in Zakynthos between the biannual International DST conferences.

Ionian TechnoMedia, a spin-off company of the Ionian University, is now officially a member of the Greek Registry of Young Enterprises (Elevate Greece).

The 17th Audiovisual Arts Festival (AVfest) celebrates this year the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University highlighting the Department's unique contribution to the development of audiovisual arts. The promotional video of the 17th AVfest refers to the wind of culture blowing across the city of Corfu during the days of the festival, giving color and creative breath to the corners of the city.

The ‘INSAP’ meeting [May 20th-24th, 2024] in Ionian Academy - 1, Kapodistriou str., Corfu marks the twelfth in the series of Conferences on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena and will explore humanity’s fascination with the sky by day and by night - which has been a strong and often dominant element in human life and culture.

AV-school, the series of seminars and workshops of the Audiovisual Arts Festival, will be held at the Public Central Historic Library at Corfu from May 28th to May 31st, 2024. AV-School 2024 theme is “Impressions” and it celebrates the Department of Audio and Visual Arts’ 20th Anniversary. The program is open to all those interested in contemporary art issues and new technologies, focusing this year in topics related with film, performance art, radio, gaming and art research. Registration for both workshops and seminars is free, and attendees will receive a certificate of attendance.

Ionian University Library & Information Centre publishes the monthly bulletin on the productivity of Ionian University's researchers, based on Scopus and MDPI.

HEAL-Link provides access to the JSTOR Essential Collection through IP Address recognition.

Applications are now open for TTTfellows: Art and Science Residency - Fall 2024, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Ionian University within the Feral Labs Network. Dedicated to issues related to new reproductive technologies, TTTfellows is taking place on 23 September - 4 October 2024 (online) and 7-18 October 2024 (on-place) on the island of Corfu. Deadline for applications: 6 June 2024. Results announcement: 21 June 2024.

Assoc. Prof. Dalila Honorato, Director of the InArts Lab at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, participates as a guest-speaker at the Bio Art Forum taking place in Novi Sad, Serbia, on May 16-18, 2024, as part of the project Bio Awaking. The specific objectives of the project include developing a network of bio artists across Europe, strengthening the capacities of European artists in utilizing biomaterials, and creating bio art installations using environmental samples. Additionally, the project will focus on involving decision-makers in all phases of the process, fostering an audience for bio art that supports environmental conservation, and nurturing cultural, artistic, and educational collaboration in addressing environmental challenges in Europe and the Balkans.

On Tuesday May 14th, 2024, 13:00-15:00 pm at room ΤΑΒΜ 2.39, Emeritus Professor Rob Kesseler, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, will be presenting “Butterflies in Art and in Corfu” as a guest-lecturer of the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts within the framework of the course "THE202-Communication Theory". Visitor program coordination: Assoc. Prof. Dalila Honorato and Spec. Fac. Marily Argyrokastriti.