MARes grants a Diploma of Postgraduate Studies specialized in Hybrid Arts.

The MARes or ‘Master of Research’ in Hybrid Arts emphasizes independent study over taught instruction and it aims to prepare emerging researchers, either for professional work or prior to a PhD in which theoretical inquiry and experimentation with frontier areas of science and emerging technologies underpin art practice.

MARes in Hybrid Arts is interested in gathering the most curious minds under the Ionian University spirit independently of their geographical location. This master degree program is in English and mostly conducted remotely, being delivered in person during intense short-term residencies (low residency / winter school) during which ongoing seminars on methods and the revision of the research proposals take place.

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Re-thinking Neon: Beyond the Signifier by Angelina Almukhametova: Master’s Thesis Public Defense

Posted: 27-02-2026 03:16

The MARes in Hybrid Arts program (Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University) invites you to the public online defense of the Master’s thesis Re-thinking Neon: Beyond the Signifier by Angelina Almukhametova, supervised by Iannis Zannos, on Thursday, 5 March 2026 — 7:00 pm (Athens time), via Zoom. The project reexamines neon beyond its traditional role as a signifier, proposing a post-semiotic framework that understands the medium as an embodied, affective material with its own agency and future within art and culture. The defense is open to the public, and all interested students, researchers, artists, and members of the community are welcome to attend.

Posted: 25-02-2026 22:22

The MARes in Hybrid Arts program (Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University) invites you to the public online defense of the Master’s thesis Bioelectric Signaling as Pre-linguistic Musicality: A compositional practice emerging from the agency of humans and weakly electric fish by Sophia Osbanova, supervised by Iannis Zannos, on Tuesday, 3 March 2026 — 3:00 (Athens time), via Zoom. The project treats the bioelectric discharges of weakly electric fish as pre-linguistic musicality, transforming multielectrode recordings into an orchestral work (SENSUS) through a transparent, repeatable pipeline that frames composition as a distributed agency across organism, technology, algorithms, collaborators, and listening. The defense is open to the public, and all interested students, researchers, artists, and members of the community are welcome to attend.

Posted: 25-02-2026 21:47

The MARes in Hybrid Arts program (Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University) invites you to the public online defense of the Master’s thesis Cyborg Balsamine 2.0 by Tatiana Yfanti, supervised by Maria Chalkou, on Tuesday, 3 March 2026 — 19:00 (Athens time), via Zoom. The project drawing on Hannah Höch’s photomontage and Donna Haraway’s cyborg theory, uses glitch aesthetics, digital montage, and archival research to explore posthuman identity and hybrid bodies as challenges to white patriarchal power structures in contemporary digital culture. The defense is open to the public, and all interested students, researchers, artists, and members of the community are welcome to attend.