Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor, Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, is invited to participate at the Conference "50 years of Greek song: 1974-2024: sociological and cultural approaches", organized by the Laboratory of Cultural and Optical Studies of the Dpt of Journalism & Media, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The conference will take place at the University Campus, 26-27 November, Thessaloniki

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor, Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, Ιonian University, is invited to participate at the International Musicological Conference "Soundtracks of Power: The Nexus of Film Music, Political Narratives and Moving Images", organized by the National University of Music, Bucharest. Paper title: "History-Music-Cinema: The role of Music in ideologizing Cinema. From the National Epopy of the Greek Revolution 1821 to the Music Epopy of the Greek Cinema." The Conference takes place at the Auditorium Hall of the National University of Music, Bucharest, 28-30 November.

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts/ Ionian University, participates in the Languages and the Media Conference 2024  «New Frontiers in Media Localization», with the lecture: «Transcoding Music and Sound Into Subtitling for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers: The Case of the film "Dunkirk" (2017)». Dates: 13-15.11.2024.

Rena Katsenou, Ioannis Deliyannis, and Dalila Honorato will take part in the 17th Annual International Conference on Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI2024), which will be held in Seville, Spain, on November 11-13, 2024. Their research, titled "Kindergarten Teachers’ Conversations with Froufrou: Human/AI Interaction as a New Anthropological Field," explores the interaction between educators and artificial intelligence as a new hybrid field, where new forms of social knowledge can emerge. The presentation aims to deepen the understanding of the dynamics formed by these interactions and to examine their potential impacts on educational practice and theory. The goal of this research is to contribute to the dialogue around contemporary challenges and opportunities in education, opening new horizons for academic and applied research.

On Saturday, November 2, 2024, Associate Professor Dr. Agnes Papadopoulou and Laboratory Teaching Personnel Dr. Emmanouel Rovithis will present the paper entitled Art and Education: contradictions, conflicts, pluralism and protection of democracy in the game "The Other Half" at the Scientific Conference "Education for Active Global Citizenship" organized by the Institute of Educational Policy.

In the framework of the Panhellenic festival "Electroacoustic Music Days 2024", Saturday 2 November, the work "59 Winds" is presented, which the Professor of the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, Apostolos Loufopoulos, composed in collaboration with Myrto Korkokiou, flutist, composer and doctoral researcher the Ionian University. The work has been awarded 1st prize at the Franco Evangelisti composition competition (Italy) and has been published in sheet music by Zerboni (Milan) and Forton Music (London)

Two works by PhD candidate Thanasis Epitideios will be presented at the national festival "Days of Electroacoustic Music" in Athens, along with works by important artistic personalities from Greece and abroad. These works implement the language of electroacoustic music and utilize the cutting edge of technology, as they include sound modeling of nature and projection through a 3D sound reproduction system.

The Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) will host a joint talk on October 23 at 11:00 AM by Dr. Prof. Dalila Honorato and Adam Zaretsky, PhD. Both are known for their unique and transgressive approaches to the intersection of art and biology. The talk, titled "Bioart - The Art and Politics of Art and Life Science Workshopology," will take place at the C' Sculpture Lab.

Dalila Honorato, Prof. of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, is one of the participants in the exhibition Metamorphosis by the Ectopia Experimental Art Lab in Lisbon. With the aim of brings together themes of identity, transformation, and the seen & unseen realities this exhibition prompts the visitors to question the nature of information, and how it impacts their memory, perspectives, and beliefs. The exhibition started on October 11th and will remain open until December 8th, 2024.

A three-day event on Sound Art and Electroacoustic Music in Greece will be hosted from 18-10 to 20-10 at the Athens Concert Hall, organized by the Department of Digital Arts and Film and the Department of Music Studies of the Athens University of Music and Performing Arts, bringing together many composers and representatives of the contemporary music avant-garde in Greece. Apostolos Loufopoulos, after an honorary invitation and in collaboration with Myrto Korkokiou, representing the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, participates with the composition Machine Gun Cut (flute and electronics), which has been awarded 1st prize in the international electroacoustic music competition MUSICA NOVA - Czech Republic.  

Maria Aslanidi, Specialized Teaching Staff of the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts, participates in the "6th UNIMARC Users Meeting: charting the course: future-forward cataloguing with UNIMARC", which takes place in Maribor (Slovenia), on 12.11.2024 as a member of PUC (Permanent UNIMARC Committee) of IFLA. 

The article, titled “Introducing Digitized Cultural Heritage to Wider Audiences by Employing Virtual and Augmented Reality Experiences: The Case of the v-Corfu Project”, presents a holistic approach to the design and implementation of projects that promote cultural heritage using immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences, with the aim of attracting wider audiences. The article was written by a team consisting of Vasileios Komianos, Assistant Professor at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Athanasios Tsipis, Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Media and Communication and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts and Dr. Aikaterini Kontopanagou.

The Terrabytes Glitch Lab, a phygital collective founded by Augusto Calçada and Xristina Sarli, announces the launch of the TTTLab Official VR World. Developed during their online interaction with participants of the TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp Fall 2024 on the island of Crete from September 15 to 25, this immersive virtual reality project brings together artists, researchers, and technologists to explore new forms of creative expression that blend the digital and physical worlds.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University participates through the Postgraduate Program in Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age, and the AVARTS team, in the annual exhibition Platforms Projects - Independent Art Fair 2024, which will take place October 10-13, 2024, in Athens.

Renata Dalianoudi, Musicologist - PhD in Ethnomusicology, Associate Professor, Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, participates in the International Congress “Neograeca Medii Aevi VIII. Tradition, Perception and Edition of the Texts”, which is organized by the Dpt of Philology, University of Ioannina, in honor of the Emeritus Professor Mr. Yiannis Mavromatis, at Ioannina, October 3-6 2024. The title of her paper: “The musical perception of the Cretan Epos “Erotocritus” by folk and art composers. Folkloric and Musicological Approach”.

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University, was appointed a member of the Academic Council of the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (H.I.C.D.) for issues related to Cultural Studies, Music/Melodrama, Theatre, Dance Drama.

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Welcome to the student exhibition of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of Ionian University. The works presented here are from the course "Interactive Interventions in Public Space," taught by Angelos Floros, with the support of PhD candidate Martha Gogakos. The screening of the films was supported by the production company Fama. The event will take place at the Thespis Theater of the (...)

The Society for Corfiot Studies – Solomos Museum, in collaboration with the Ionian Islands Region and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, as part of the events celebrating the 20th anniversary of its establishment, is organizing a "Tribute to the author Konstantinos Theotokis" on Thursday, June 13, Friday, June 14, and Saturday, June 15, 2024.

  A new collective volume titled "Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture," by editors Angeliki Malakasioti, Assistant Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual and Image Arts at the Ionian University, and Chara Kokkiou, Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane University, has been just published by Routledge (2024). The book is part of the Routledge Research in Art History (...)

AVARTS Live Game Hub is an action aiming to bring together new game designers and creators and showcase their ideas to the public. It is organized by teachers of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts with a coordinating core of Vassilis Komianos, Varvara Garnelis, and Emmanuel Rovithis, and is staffed by students who are actively involved in creating games. It focuses on the game design and play (...)

An amateur theatre company struggling to put on a production of Pirandello's "Leonora, addio!" finds its members constantly at odds with each other, while at the same time having to follow the instructions of an authoritarian director who presents their play as nothing less than a gift from God.