Project Mystery 91_Magnetic Dance, explores the relationship between technology and culture through a series of performances in collaboration with artists from Greece, Japan, and France. The technology for the project was developed within the framework of the HAL research project of the Department of audiovisual Arts at the Ionian University and is presented here for the first time in autonomous, large-scale works.

Among the projects featured in the HAL ArtBox, which ran between 27 and 29 September, was an installation that introduced visitors and conferees to the metaverse version of the Ionian Islands Film Office. This virtual extension of the F.O.  was created in collaboration with HAL’s Gamification node, coordinated by Associate Professor Yannis Deliyiannis.

The fifth international conference Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science will take place September 27–29, 2023 in Valletta, Malta. Approximately 170 speakers from more than 30 countries focused (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art.

The complete program of activities of TTT2023 Malta taking place at the Palazzo de la Salle in Valletta on September 26-29th, 2023 has just been published.

Hub of Art Laboratories (otherwise known as HAL), one of the most ambitious and innovative research programmes ever carried out by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, will receive its first major showcase at the upcoming Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science Interdisciplinary Conference, held in Valletta, Malta, between 26 and 29 September 2023.

Angelos Floros, Assistant Professor and Vassilis Alexandrou, PhD candidate (ELIDEK scholarship holder) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University participate with the presentation "Happiness Relay" at the International Conference "Conflict as a catalyst" organized by the Latvian Academy of Arts. The conference takes place online on June 15 and 16.   Happiness (...)

A detailed and important article related to the hybrid events of the TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC): entitled "Exploring science and intimacy through artificial reproduction in Greece", written by Elsa Ferreira, was recently published by the makery.info (editor: Ewen Chardronnet). The full article follows below. 

Another part of HAL’s innovative and expansive work was made public last week, as the Ionian Film Office’s metaverse edition was presented in its entirety, on May 18, by the Ionian Islands Prefect Ms. Rodi Kratsa, and Drs. Ioannis Deliyannis, Associate Professor, and Iakovos Panagopoulos, film director and researcher at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University. Ephorate of Antiquities, Ms. Diamanto Rigakou, Corfu’s Deputy Mayor, in charge of European Programmes Ms. Panagiota Tzanne, and Director of the Ionian Film Office, Ms. Angela Krokidi were also in attendance.

This installation welcomes visitors to a room where silence illuminates the space and noise plunges it into darkness. A luminous square formed on the floor by LED strips identifies the position of the microphone providing the required security to the visitors in blackout conditions.

AV-school hosts educational activities that take place in the framework of the Audiovisual Arts Festival. AV-School 2023 takes place May 14-16th in the premises of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts and its activities are open to all members of the academic community and general public.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts, in collaboration with the Electroacoustic Music Research & Applications Laboratory of the Ionian University, organizes the 16th Audiovisual Arts Festival, in Corfu from 11th to 29th May, 2023! The Festival stands out for the presentation of works made by the Student and Academic Community of the Ionian University in the fields of Contemporary Audio & Visual Arts, Hybrid and Performing Arts.

The 16th collective photo show of students of Laboratory of Photography, Department of Audio-Visual Arts, will be open on the 5th of May at 20:00 at the Venetian Prisons of the Old Fortress. The selection and sequence of pictures has been chosen collectively, through the participants’ collaboration.

Dronecote was presented at the 10th S.ARCH International Conference on Architecture and the Built Environment, which took place in Berlin from 4 to 6 April 2023. The field of study is the adaptation to the special characteristics of the Region of the Ionian Islands. The research project 'Dronecote' is implemented within the framework of the HAL project, a research hub of the Ionian University.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts and the Hub of Arts Laboratory (HAL) of the Ionian University participate for the first time in the Christmas Carols of the city of Corfu in collaboration with the historical Philharmonic Society "Mantzaros", a section of the Children's Choir of Corfu and the Banknote Museum of the Ionian Bank - Alpha Bank. 

The year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Greek-born pioneer composer and thinker Iannis Xenakis, and is accompanied worldwide by events dedicated to his memory and work. To honour this Greek-born musician, a marathon concert takes place at Athens Conservatory, on Saturday 17 December, presenting works inspired by his musical work and his reflections on science and technology and the role of muscles in society and the arts. This event, which takes place at the Athens Conservatory from 7 pm until 3:30 am the following day, features musicians and artists from ten different countries (Greece, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Japan, Mexico, England, Ireland, Germany, Turkey, United States).