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

The MARes in Hybrid Arts is pleased to announce The CHAKRA TUNNEL, an interactive sculptural installation by Anna Laura Hafner, currently on view at Spiral House Park in Saugerties, New York, through 27 July 2026. Developed as part of Hafner's Master of Research (MARes) in Hybrid Arts thesis at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, The CHAKRA TUNNEL forms part of a broader body of work and holistic artistic methodology titled SPECTRASOMATICS. The installation invites visitors to walk through each colour of the rainbow, engaging with the corresponding chakras through a series of guided movements and sound experiences presented in an accompanying video. The project showcases work developed as part of the artist's MARes thesis, supervised by Emmanouel Rovithis.

The MARes in Hybrid Arts is pleased to announce Where the Water Flows (9–18 July), an exhibition by Myrto Papadopoulos at Depo Darm Contemporary Art Space (Iroon Skopeftiriou 54–56, Kaisariani, Athens), opening on Thursday, 9 July, at 19:00. Bringing together analogue photography, archival material, artefacts, text, and video, Where the Water Flows explores how land—understood as a living, relational entity shaped through reciprocity, balance, and interdependence—forms cultural identity, memory, and sustainability. The exhibition showcases work developed as part of the artist's MARes thesis, supervised by Associate Professor Maria Chalkou.

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 Reinterpreting Waiting in the Local Landscape: Collective Memory, Thinking, and Political Potential by Kristina Bozhurska, supervised by Maria Chalkou, on Monday, 6 July 2026 — 3:00 pm (Athens time), via Zoom. This practice-based artistic research project explores the area surrounding the final stop of an unfinished east–west railway line in a village in North Macedonia. Developed through the exhibition Waiting at the National Gallery in Kumanovo, the project examines how the site's historical, social, and spatial specificities generate new meanings and possibilities. The thesis reinterprets waiting not as passive stagnation but as a condition capable of fostering reflection, critical thinking, collective action, and social transformation.