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.

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 Mother Earth: Mothers Seeing Change in Corfu by Zoe Lomax, supervised by Daphne Dagona, on Thursday, 18 June 2026 — 4:00 pm (Athens time), via Zoom. The practice-based artistic research project explores how six mothers living in Corfu experience environmental change through their daily lives, memories, and photography. Developed through the exhibition Mothering Nature at the Anemomylos Windmill, the project presents a deeply personal and maternally informed perspective on ecological transformation, foregrounding care, intergenerational responsibility, and feminist approaches to environmental awareness.

MARes invites you to a new edition of the MSG Talks, featuring presentations by Kristina Bozhurska, Zoe Lomax and Nicolás Parise Schneider. Through artistic research, participatory practices, and environmental inquiry, they explore how art can engage with social transformation, memory, community, and changing landscapes. Join us online on June 11 and June 16, 2026 for an opportunity to learn about their ongoing projects and participate in the discussion.

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 Ground truth - a view from somewhere by Sujata Majumdar, supervised by Emmanouil Rovithis, on Wednesday, 11 March 2026 — 6:00 pm (Athens time), via Zoom. The project explores how a feminist data-driven hybrid art practice can bridge algorithmic smart-city models and residents’ lived perceptions of urban trees in Amsterdam, using artistic interventions and participatory storytelling to reveal multiple truths about urban nature and to propose more inclusive and caring relationships between people, technology, and landscape. The defense is open to the public, and all interested students, researchers, artists, and members of the community are welcome to attend.

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.

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.

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.

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 Doublespeeches by Nathalie Dubois Calero, supervised by Adam Zaretsky, on Thursday, 19 February 2026 at 10:00 (Athens time), via Zoom. The project is a bioart approach to human identity through the microbiota and the concept of the human holobiont, raising speculative questions about behavior. The defense is open to the public, and all interested students, researchers, artists, and members of the community are welcome to attend.

The MARes in Hybrid Arts program announces the opening of applications for the Half-Tuition Waiver for Merit-Based Achievement. This initiative provides financial support covering 50% of the semester tuition fees (1,000€) for one (1) eligible student who demonstrates academic excellence. Application Deadline: March 8, 2026 — 11:55 pm (Athens time).

MARes in Hybrid Arts gladly shares the announcement of The Cyborg Balsamine 2.0, a video installation by Tatiana Ifanti at amaka Studio, a project developed as part of the artist’s master thesis, supervised by Assist. Prof. Maria Chalkou.  "What is a cyborg? When does identity become fluid? Who is afraid of fragmented bodies? What is the Garden of Eden? And ultimately, who writes the rules in the posthuman world?"

The Master of Research in Hybrid Arts (MARes) at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University announces the first public release of Human Germline Gene Editing is Bioart: An Open Letter to Lulu and Nana by bioartist Adam Zaretsky, Visiting Professor in the MARes program published online on January 1, 2026, by the Bioart Ethical Advisory Kommission (BEAK) in Simplified Chinese, English and French.

The upcoming guest lecture (December 10th, 2025, 17:00-19:00 Greek time) will feature the Coordinator of the Audiovisual Sector of the Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival (Peldocfest), offering a compelling perspective on integrating sustainability, community engagement, and environmental focus within art and project development.

We are pleased to continue the MSG Talks, an online platform where MARes postgraduate students share their ongoing research and artistic experiments with the broader academic and artistic community. This December, will present the latest developments in their projects: Sujata Majumdar, Sofiya Barinova-Osbanova, Myrto Papadopoulos, Tatiana Yfanti and Anne Vlaanderen.

The Winter School in Hybrid Arts Methodology concluded its 2025 edition at the Athens School of Fine Arts Annex in Hydra, after an intensive week dedicated to interdisciplinary research, artistic experimentation, and collaborative learning. Co-organized by the Interactive Arts Lab of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts – Ionian University on behaf of the Master of Research in Hybrid Arts (MARes) and the Third Sculpture Laboratory of the ASFA, the program brought together faculty, postgraduate students, and invited practitioners for a concentrated series of seminars and workshops.