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Living Matter/ La Materia Viva will discuss the broad implications and challenges (conceptual, ethical, and practical) associated with collecting, displaying, and preserving contemporary works that include biological materials.

Τhe "THE OX" of the graduate of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts and doctoral candidate, George Nikopoulos, is the only Greek production that competes for the Emile Awards 2018 / European Animation Awards in the category of "Best Soundtrack in a Feature Film". The soundtrack is composed by Dimitra Trypani, Assistant Professor of the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University.

The scientific collaborator of Interactive Arts Lab (InArts), Iakovos Panagopoulos, completed a research in California on behalf of AHRC StoryLab Film Development Research Network.

The final program of the Third Interdisciplinary Conference "Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science" has just been released. The conference is hosted by the Centro de Cultura Digital (CCD) on November 11th and by the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IIFs-UNAM) on November 12-13th.

Στο πλαίσιο της καμπάνιας του #EUandME, αναζητούνται νέοι σκηνοθέτες να βγάλουν τον Σπήλμπεργκ που κρύβουν μέσα τους! Να γράψουν και να σκηνοθετήσουν μία ταινία μικρού μήκους, που να συνδέεται με την επίδραση της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης στην καθημερινότητα των ανθρώπων. Παράταση προθεσμίας υποβολής δηλώσεων συμμετοχής: μέχρι τις 7 Νοεμβρίου 2018 στις 12:00.

Bill Psarras, artist and current postdoctoral researcher of InArts Lab has been invited to speak at the forthcoming international conference "Space, Sound and the Improvisatory" organised by Onassis Cultural Centre, with the talk "Metaphors for Walking: 'Tuning' space, senses and imagination" and which will take place at the same building during 19-21 October 2018, in Athens.

The ebook with the proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science 2017 was published by the Ionian University - Department of Audio & Visual Arts in September 2018. Edited by Dalila Honorato and Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, this is the second and main core of the presentations of TTT2017.

Bill Psarras, artist and currently postdoctoral researcher at the InArts lab of the Dept. of Audio & Visual Arts, will be giving a conference talk entitled "Performing borders and conflict zones: Body, action and imagination towards poetic interventions", at the "Area Studies in Flux", which will take place at UCL (London, 27-29/9/2018).

Marianna Strapatsakis, artist and former Associate Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University will present her work at the exhibition entitled Shell // the politics of being at the 15th Kypseli High School in Athens. Exhibition opening: 26 June 2018 | 17.00 - 21.00. Exhibition duration: 26 June - 24 July 2018.

On Wednesday 25 April 2018 at 17.00, Dr. Bill Psarras (artist, postdoctoral researcher and member of InArts Lab) will give a guest lecture as part of the ‘Semiotic Analysis of New Media’ course, of the MA in Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age (Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts).

The Global Composition 2018 is organized by h_da’s Research Center for Digital Communication and Media Innovation (DKMI) in collaboration with GFTN e.V./Darmstadt, Master’s program International Media Cultural Work and World Forum for Acoustic Ecology on 4-7 October 2018 at Media Campus Dieburg/Darmstadt UAS h_da.

Conference Curriculum and Pedagogy will take place at University of Applied Arts Vienna, 28-30 May, 2018. Deadline for abstract submission: 15th April, 2018.