NEWS

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.

Stella with the Red Gloves The play “Stella with the Red Gloves” offers a contemporary take on the classic theatrical form, bringing to light the intense social and psychological contradictions of the human psyche. Stella, a young woman with passion and a strong personality, struggles to balance her personal desires with the constraints imposed by society. The play delves into her inner world, (...)

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 program includes music by the Italian professor Lelio Camilleri and works by students of Florence Music Conservatory L. Cherubini.

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 lecture examines the main science fiction films from the 1930s onward in which sound plays a fundamental role; from the use of wind sounds to symbolize the arrival of a comet in La Fin du Monde (1931), to the hierarchical and complex sound world of the Star Wars saga (1977-2005); from the electronic music of Forbidden Planet (1956) to the music built on sound in Arrival (2016).

"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 screening programme features clusters of moving image works, shot by students of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts during the academic year 2024-2025. Coordination:  Tatiana Veligratli, Vassoula Grammatopoulou, Selini Kyriazi, Myropi Kypri, Olga Skerleti. Date and Time: 14/05/2025-16/05/2025 (21:00), Location: Politechno

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.

reSonaissance is an algorithmic sound work, composed and performed in real time using the ChucK programming language. The title of the piece is inspired by three concepts: renaissance, resonance, and reconnaissance. While algorithmic processes guide the composition, stochasticity ensures that each listening experience is different, continuously regenerating new nuances and patterns of resonance. (...)

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.

This exhibition presents the undergraduate projects from the courses "Graphic Arts I – Visual Identity" and "Graphic Arts II – Visual Storytelling." Through a curated collection of posters, the students explore and express the possibilities of visual communication design, blending artistic expression with the tools of graphic design.

Dissertations of senior students and graduates of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts. Presentation of undergraduate and graduate dissertations (sculptured, visual, interactive, video & animation works).

The exhibition includes a set of works created by students of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts during the academic year 2024-2025. The works presented in the space of the old Ionian Parliament were created in the context of undergraduate courses, utilizing different media and covering different thematic areas. Ιnstallations, videos, photographs, sculptures and sound works enter into dialogue and manifest forms of compatibility and coexistence based on plurality and heterogeneity.

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/