Sounds recorded across the Ionian Islands will travel to South Korea this October, closing one of the international sound art festivals of the season. Thanasis Epitideios, a PhD candidate in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at Ionian University, supervised by Professor Apostolos Loufopoulos, has been selected through an international open call to take part in Sonic Nomads 2026: "Listen with". The festival runs from 22 to 25 October 2026 at Seoul National University Powerplant (SNU Powerplant) in Seoul.

Daphne Dragona, Assistant Professor in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, will be presenting a paper at the conference “Re-examining AI, Rethinking Modernity: Critical philosophical, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology”, organised by the Department of History and Digital Humanities and to be held in person on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 October 2026, in the ‘Georgios Grammatikakis Hall’ at the Ionian Academy in Corfu.

Angelos Floros, Associate Professor in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, is presenting a paper at the international conference Communicating for a Better World. The conference is organised by the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University and the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, in collaboration with United Nations entities, and takes place in New York on 21–23 October 2026.

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor of Music and Audiovisual Culture at the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts of Ionian University, will participate as a conference presenter and session chair in the international conference “Digital Folklore 2.0: Folk Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,”organised by the Department of Primary Education, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean. Ionian University, and particularly its Department of Audio and Visual Arts, will have a strong presence at the conference, with the participation of five doctoral researchers supervised by Professor Dalianoudi: Panagiotis Sdoukos, Evi Chlorou, Stelios Stromatias, Angeliki Lyginou, and Anna Maria Giannakodimou. The conference will take place in Rhodes and Chalki, Greece, from 16 to 18 October 2026.

The Lyceum Club of Greek Women of Argos is pleased to welcome Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of Ionian University, as the guest speaker at the opening event of its new cultural year. Renata Dalianoudi will deliver a lecture entitled “Cultural Organisations and the Management of Music and Dance Heritage: Reflections and Proposals.” The event will take place on 12 October, 20:00, at the premises of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women of Argos, 16 Danaou Street, Argos, Greece.

The exhibition “Digital Entities” is being hosted from October 8 to 25 by MOMUS—Experimental Arts Center, at Warehouse B1 in the Port of Thessaloniki. The exhibition marks the tenth anniversary of the Ionian University’s Master’s Program in “Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age.” Exhibition curator: Professor Konstantinos Tiligadis, Director of the Master’s Program. The opening will take place on Thursday, October 8, at 8:30 p.m.

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts at Ionian University, will serve for the third consecutive year as Chair of the Jury for the auditions of candidates seeking to join the Mixed Choir of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women (Central Branch), alongside other distinguished members of the jury, including musicologists, pianists, and composers. The auditions will take place on Monday, 28 September 2026, at 7:30 p.m., in the main hall of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women, 14 Dimokritou Street, Athens.

The encounter between West and East, between art music and folk traditions, and between harmonic and modal musical languages, is articulated through arrangements of folk repertoire enriched by elements of art-music harmony and, at times, by a distinctly jazz-inflected sensibility. At the heart of this musical dialogue lies the interplay between the piano and the oud, as well as the lute. Through an approach of creative re-elaboration, folk plucked-string instruments—including the oud, lute, and mandolin—alongside solo voice and choral singing, enter into dialogue with the harmonic and timbral nuances of the Western piano. The performance explores the aesthetic and expressive possibilities that emerge from the meeting of different musical traditions, idioms, and performance practices, creating a contemporary space of musical exchange between tradition and artistic re-creation. Introduction / Presentation / Academic Curatorship: Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor of Music and Audiovisual Culture, Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University; Scientific Fellow of ERT. The event takes place on Sunday, 27 September 2026, at 20:00 at the Municipal Cultural Centre of Paiania.

Participation of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts in the International Forum of Performance Art 2026.  Participating students: Adelaida Zaimi, Zisis Kamanas, Konstantina Kourtaki, Dimitra Kostopoulou, Theodosis Margomenos, and Anthi Tavlaridou. The works presented as part of this group participation were created within the framework of the course “The Art of Technical Images” at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University. Curator: Vasilis Alexandrou.

Konstantinos Tiligadis, Professor at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, participates in the “3rd DIGITAL ICON, International Festival of Contemporary Visual Media,” Thessaloniki 2026, 25-27.9.2026.

Konstantinos Tiligadis, Professor at the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts, together with the AVARTS group of the Postgraduate Programme, participates in the Platforms Project 2026, 17-20.9.2026, Hellenic Parliament Tobacco Factory building

The MARes in Hybrid Arts, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, announces the first week of public Master’s thesis presentations for September 2026, taking place online from 23 to 25 September 2026. Across three consecutive days, MARes candidates will present research-creation projects that reflect the interdisciplinary and experimental scope of Hybrid Arts, bringing together fungal and more-than-human pedagogies, speculative design, digital performance, artificial intelligence, speculative museology, embodied and archival practices, visual storytelling, ecology, sound, movement, and interactive performance. The presentations are open to the public and will take place online via Zoom.

Maria Aslanidi, special teaching personnel at the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, is participating at the first annual IFLA Europe Regional Division Committee Symposium to Explore Library Advocacy Across Europe, 25.9.2026. Presentation title: 'Libraries speak. Are we listening?' The event takes place at the University of Piraeus.

The 22nd Panhellenic Conference of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women, under the overarching theme “Migration & Identity: Social, Economic and Cultural Dimensions,” will be held in Ioannina from 10 to 13 September 2026. Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, has been invited to participate as a speaker and chair of a roundtable discussion. The title of her presentation is “Migration as Cultural Identity: The Case of Epirus,” and it will take place on Friday, 11 September, from 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University, undertakes the scientific curation and presentation, for yet another year, of the performance “Exis… When Habit Becomes Lived Experience” by the Lyceum Club of Greek Women of Chalkida. Date and place of event: Sunday, 19 July 2026, 9:00 p.m., at the Lyceum Club Hall, Malliou Square, Chalkida.

Maria Aslanidi, special research teaching personnel of the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, is participating as a member of the IFLA Accessibility Metadata Network at the 90th IFLA World Library and Information Congress, which this year has the theme: 'Libraries Powering Transformation'. On August 10, 2026, the research team will present a scientific paper titled: 'Transforming Access: Inclusive Metadata for Audiovisual Resources'.

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University and Scientific Director of the Institute of Greek Music Heritage (IEMΚ), participates in the World Congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), which will take place for the first time in Greece and in Thessaloniki. The title of Renata Dalianoudi’s paper is: “The Performativity of Archives in Concert Halls and Performance Venues: Case Study, the Upcoming Exhibition ‘Thessaloniki: The Musical Palimpsest in the Twentieth Century — Popular and Art Music Creation’, organized by the Institute of Greek Music Heritage (IEMK) and the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.” The Congress will take place in Thessaloniki from 28 June to 3 July 2026.

Maria Aslanidi, Special Research Teaching Personnel in the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, is participating as a member of the Greek RISM Office in the annual conference of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres - IAML), which is being held for the first time in Thessaloniki from June 28 to July 3, 2026. On June 30, 2026, the research team will present a scientific paper titled: 'A long-awaited desideratum: MEI Encoding of Byzantine Neumes (Chrysanthine notation)'

Emmanouel Rovithis, Laboratory Teaching Personnel of the Audio & Visual Arts Dept is participating in this year’s 61st Venice Biennale with 2 theatrical performances, for which he has composed the music and implemented the sound design. These are the well-traveled “Goodbye Lindita”, which is in its third year of its world tour, and “Ragada”, which will be presented in a world premiere.

The project Until we return is a three channel audiovisual installation based on personal recordings from the stay and work of the creator in Iceland during the summer of 2025. Concept and creation: Alexandra Iliadou.The project was created as part of a diploma thesis at the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University. Supervising professor: Daphne Dragona. Opening Saturday 23/03/2026 18:00. Saturday 23 & Sunday 25/05/2026, 18:00-22:00.

Echoes of Modality is a creative musical venture offering a renewed perspective on Greek folk music and the modal music traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean. Rooted in folk heritage while embracing post-folk aesthetics, the project brings together arrangements of anonymous folk songs alongside original compositions by art-music composers inspired by folk music. The project’s scientific supervision is undertaken by Renata Dalianoudi, PhD in Ethnomusicology, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, and Scientific Associate of ERT, who will also deliver the introductory presentation to the performance. Day and palce of the event: Sunday, 17 May, 20:00, Lilian Voudouri Music Library, Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor of “Music and Audiovisual Culture” at the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University and Scientific Director of the Institute of Greek Music Heritage (IEMH), participates in the 4th International Scientific Conference on the Sarakatsani, entitled “Sarakatsani: From Nomadic Life to the Digital World”. Her paper, co-authored with Dimitrios Goulimaris, Professor at the School of Physical Education and Sport Science of the Democritus University of Thrace, is entitled: “From Field Research to the Digital Archive of the Institute of Greek Music Heritage: The Musical Tradition of the Sarakatsani. A Case Study of the Sarakatsani of Sliven, Bulgaria”. The event takes place on 15-17.5.2026 (Alexandroupoli).

Projekt Atol, within the framework of the Feral Labs Network and the Creative Europe project Rewilding Cultures (2022–2026), announces the publication of Feral Labs Node Book #3: Fa Fa Futures, the newest volume in the evolving Feral Labs Node Book series developed in collaboration with partner organisations across Europe, including the Department of Audio & Visual Arts and the Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts Lab) of the Ionian University. Edited by Dalila Honorato, Iakovos Panagopoulos, Tina Dolinšek, and Uroš Veber, the publication brings together artists, researchers, curators, educators, technologists, and cultural practitioners from across Europe and beyond to explore ferality as a methodological, ecological, artistic, and political condition emerging through transdisciplinary artistic research, collective experimentation, situated knowledge, and more-than-human relations. Published by Zavod Projekt Atol (Ljubljana, Slovenia) in May 2026, the book is released under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license and distributed as a free edition with a print run of 600 copies. The publication reflects years of collaboration between partner organisations including Projekt Atol, Bioart Society, Cultivamos Cultura, The Culture Yard, Ionian University, Makery, Radiona, and Schmiede, while documenting the emergence of feral artistic research practices across temporary labs, situated communities, workshops, residencies, and collaborative knowledge infrastructures.

Renata Dalianoudi, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts of Ionian University, will be featured as a guest on the radio programme Kena Daimonia, hosted by Pantazis Tsaras on the Second Programme 103.7 FM of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ΕΡΤ), on Sunday, 10 May, at 23:00. The discussion will focus on the new musical project "Echoes of Modality" ("Tropikotitas Apo-echoi"), by Panagiotis Sdoukos, Giorgos Pappas, and Loukas Kourlis, which will be presented on Sunday, 17 May, at 20:00, at the Megaron Mousikis Music Library in Athens.