he Winter School in Hybrid Arts Methodology returns to the Athens School of Fine Arts Annex on the island of Hydra for a week-long immersive program that brings together postgraduate students and faculty for collaborative academic exploration, artistic experimentation, and intensive research development. Running from November 24 to 28, 2025, the Winter School provides a dedicated environment where emerging researchers engage directly with leading practitioners in hybrid arts, media archaeology, performance, sound, sustainability, bioart, and critical theory. The Winter School in Hybrid Arts Methodology is co-organized by the InArts Lab  of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts - Ionian University on behalf of the Master of Research in Hybrid Arts (MARes) and the C’ Sculpture Studio of the Athens School of Fine Arts. The program operates within a framework of Social Ethics that fosters respectful communication, inclusivity, and accessibility.

Date & Time: 19 November 2025, 17:00–19:00 Location: Online Platform Hosted within: Project Sustainability Coordination: Dr. Iakovos Panagopoulos

Emmanuel Rovithis, MARes in Hybrid Arts teaching staff, and choreographer-performer Justine Goussot present their latest collaboration within the framework of the ION ARTS Festival 2025, on Monday, November 3rd, at 21:00, at Polytechno (Corfu). Drawing inspiration from the world of social media, the performance interweaves movement, speech, video, and acting into a multilayered narrative.

The Master of Research in Hybrid Arts (MARes) invites you to a talk by Professor Vasileios Karyotis, Head of the Ethics and Research Deontology Committee of the Ionian University and Associate Chair of the Department of Informatics, on Monday, November 4, 2025 at 16:00 (4:00 p.m.) on the topic Ethics Release Procedures in Academic Research.

All communication with the Secretariat of the Master of Research in Hybrid Arts (MARes) during the academic year 2025-2026 should be established by email mares@ionio.gr during office hours Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. (local time, Greece). All communications received after 3:00 p.m. are processed on the next working day. Please note that correspondence is not processed during weekends, national holidays, and official university breaks.

The Master of Research in Hybrid Arts (MARes) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University announces the 5 members of the Coordinating Programme Committee composition for the academic year 2025–2026 with Assistant Professor Maria Chalkou, as Director (Oct 1, 2025 – Sept 15, 2026).

MARes Visiting Professor Dr. Adam Zaretsky and MARes 2024–2025 student Angelina Almukhametova participate in the Art Science Salon: BioArt at the University of Puget Sound (USA) in Oct 23, 2025. Their involvement highlights MARes’s active role in international collaborations connecting artistic research with biotechnological and hybrid art practices.

Spirits Unseen, a photographic project by MARes student Myrto Papadopoulos, will be presented at the Silversmithing Museum in Ioannina as part of the 17th Photometria International Festival. Curated by Christoforos Doulgeris, the exhibition explores gender, memory, and identity within the Pomak communities of Thrace, continuing its journey after solo presentations at the Benaki Museum and the Royal Abbey of Épau.

This November (11–20.11.2025), Visiting Professor Adam Zaretsky will be in residency at Kitchen Lab Tarvo, a transdisciplinary process and Hackteria node led by artist-organiser Andrew Gryf Paterson in the West Helsinki–Espoo borderlands.

The first talk in the series will be given by MARes student Eeva-Liisa Puhakka on Thursday, October 23, at 4:00 PM (Athens time). Eeva-Liisa will present the latest developments in her project, “Currents of Smell and Signal: From the Barents Sea to the Beyond”, exploring smell as a sociocultural indicator and translating olfactory experiences into multisensory narratives.

The Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts Lab) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University is pleased to welcome back the Master of Research (MARes) in Hybrid Arts 2024-2025 student Nathalie Dubois-Calero for the second phase of her residency as part of the Artist-in-Residency (AIR2025) program at the Node of Hybrid Arts.

From October 10 to 12, the creative factory Veldze (Matīsa Street 8) in Riga will host one of the first international olfactory art festivals in Europe — the Scent Art Festival 2025. The MARes 2024–2025 student Eeva-Liisa Puhakka (Finland) will take part in the opening exhibition with her scented sound installation Leave the body, leave the mind, presented alongside works by artists from around the world.

With contributions across paper sessions, roundtables, performances, and the exhibition Coining Utopias, students of the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 Master of Research (MARes) in Hybrid Arts, Department of Audio & Visual Arts (AVARTS), Ionian University, took active part in the 6th edition of TTT, held in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from 9 to 13 September 2025.

MARes students are warmly encouraged to submit their work to the 8th International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges (DCAC-2026), hosted by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University. The conference will take place in Corfu, Greece, on 8–9 May 2026.

This intensive week-long program offers MARes and ASFA postgraduate students a unique opportunity to develop their research skills and thesis planning through direct faculty mentoring, interdisciplinary collaboration, and hands-on experimentation. Students engage in live discussions, workshops, and peer exchanges in a stimulating research environment while exploring collaborative methodologies that bridge art and science. The program includes: faculty-led seminars on Art Research Methods, Project Sustainability, and Media Archaeology, students led workshops, and discussion of students project ideas with faculty feedback.