Composer, Associate Professor, Department of Audio and Visual arts, Ionian University, Greece, Apostolos Loufopoulos, PhD, studied at Ionian University and City University in London. His research interest focuses on nature and sound composition. He writes music for theater, installations, as well as purely electroacoustic music. His composition and research projects have been presented at world-renowned festivals and conferences for the last twenty-three years. International prizes include competitions such as Ars Electronica, Bourges, Noroit, Metamorphoses, Space of Sound, Franco Evangelisti, Musica Nova, SCRIME, I. Xenakis, D. Dragatakis. His discography includes releases from Ina-GRM, Musiques and Recherches, Ionian University, CyberArts, Touch Records, and personal releases. His scores have been published by S. Zerboni (Milan) and Just Flutes (London). He is a founding member of the ESSIM (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association) and the Society of Acoustic Ecology.
Renata Dalianoudi, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Audiovisual Arts, Ionian University, Greece. She holds a BA in Musicology and a PhD in Ethnomusicology (Athens University and University of Vienna), with six scholarships from the State Scholarship Foundation and the Papadakis Bequest. She has also studied piano, organ, accordion, guitar, and ballet. Her works include four monographs, seventy articles and papers, four lemmas in international dictionaries, fifty-two documentaries, and over two hundred television and radio broadcasts.
Iakovos Panagopoulos, PhD, is an award-winning Greek film director and scriptwriter developing academic research in media and film practice. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University. His field is: “Film Production Specializing in Creating Audiovisual Narratives.” Among his film works are the titles Flickering Souls Set Alight (2019) and Allimonò (2020). Among his publications are the titles “Returning to Your Roots: Use of Mobile Shooting in an Ethnomediaology case study with the Tejon Native American Tribe in California” (Frames Cinema Journal, 2021) and, in collaboration with Ioannis Deligiannis, “How to Establish Film Practice Research and Evidence Impact in the Greek Academic Environment?” (The International Journal of Creative Media Practice, 2022). Currently he is a collaborator in UK-based StoryLab Network and a Faculty Member in the Interactive Arts Lab at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of Ionian University.
Hari Marini, PhD, is Associate Professor of Performance and Intermediality in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at Ionian University, and Artistic Director of the PartSuspended artist collective (www.partsuspended.com) which fosters performances, live art, installations, writing, and collaborations with artists from a variety of disciplines. Her research focuses on social and material contexts and conditions of performance and their social and political effects. Hari’s research outputs have been published in leading academic journals, such as European Journal of Women’s Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review, Performance Research, Journal of Greek Media and Culture, and in the edited book Dramatic Architectures: Theatre and Performing Arts in Motion (CEAA/ESAP 2021). Hari’s artistic practice, writing, and practice-based research focus on poetics of spaces, performative architecture, and women’s writing. Her creative writing and video-work have been published in journals and poetry collections such as Tears in the Fence, Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics, and on the performingborders platform. Her bilingual book (Greek-English), 28 Διαδρομές της/28 Paths of Her, was published by AΚΑΚΙΑ Publications in 2019.