Over the last decade, the rapid technological developments in the field of media, combined with searches of the modern art scene, designate a new field of expression and creation. In this framework, systematic education and training of professionals and artists in the field of Audiovisual Arts is essential. The theoretical and practical knowledge, however, required to produce suitably trained people, who would experts in these fields, is for the time being provided separately and on an inadequate scale by educational units of the Greek System of Higher Education which stand alone and have no common ground. The Department of Audiovisual Arts was founded in 2004 under the EPEAEK programme, in order to cover this lack for the first time in our country. It is a hybrid Department where emphasis is put on the convergence of art and technology in research and teaching. The result of this interaction is in line with current international research data of digital culture.

Aim

The Department of Audio & Visual Arts, according to its charter act (Act 3255/2004) aims at:

cultivating and promoting audiovisual expression through teaching and research concerning applications of contemporary audiovisual technology in the wider field of art and mass communication.

Strategic Goals

The strategic goals of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts are defined as follows:

1. teaching of new forms of audiovisual expression;
2. scientific research on applications of contemporary audiovisual technology;
3. sound and image processing, as well as processing of the new artistic forms that come from these applications; and,
4. application of the acquired skills to the fields of artistic creation and communication.