Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences

Secretary: Morfo Bitou

Secretary's Office:
Tel.: +30-26510-07183, 07257, 07305, 07139
Fax: +30-26510-07065
Website: http://arts.uoi.gr/

General - Aim of the Department

The Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences commenced its operation in September 2000. It is a pioneering Department unique in its kind, which was founded with the intention of fostering and promoting the arts, offering its students the complete academic and vocational training that is necessary for both the contemporary theoretical scholar and the contemporary artist. The challenge of the Department is to create Artists with a complete theoretical background, as well as Art Theorists with an artistic background, which will allow for in-depth analysis of works of art on the one hand, and the emergence of creators in the field of plastic and applied arts on the other. Students can enter the Department via the pan-hellenic examinations with "Free-Hand Drawing" as their specific examination subject.

Structure of the Department - Sections

There are two (2) options:

1. Art history and theory
2. Plastic Arts

Laboratories and Seminar Rooms

Laboratories

• Painting
• Sculpting
• Engraving
• Photography
• Digital Image Processing - Multimedia
• Graphic Design - Animation

Subject Areas

The subject areas covered in the eight semesters of study at the Department are:

1. Theoretical and practical studies in plastic arts.
2. Applied arts (photographic and numerical image, design, sketch, comics, 3D animation, etc.).
3. Art Sciences / Art History / Philosophy of Art (Aesthetics, Sociology and Anthropology of Art, Didactics of Art).
4. Cultural Institutions and Administration - Management of Cultural Heritage.

Members of Academic Staff

Gogas Evagelos, Associate Professor Painting
Dikefalos Konstantinos, Associate Professor, Sculpting
Bitsikas Xenofon, Associate Professor, Painting
Christou Athanasios, Associate Professor Art History (Renaissance till today)
Adamopoulou Areti, Assistant Professor Art History
Artemis Nikolaos, Assistant Professor Plastic, Arts with emphasis in Digital Art
Dedos Zikos, Assistant Professor, Plastic Arts with emphasis in Art Education
Dermentzopoulos Christos, Assistant Professor, Anthropology of Art, Cinematography
Katsikoudis Nikolaos, Assistant Professor, Art History (from prehistoric times to late antiquity)
Paschalis Vassilios, Assistant Professor, Multimedia (design, sketch, 3D animation, photographic and numerical image)
SmirisGeorgios, Assistant Professor, Ιστορία της Αρχιτεκτονικής
Dimou Tzavara Anastasia , Lecturer, Philosophy
Ioannidis Konstantinos, Lecturer, Art Theory
Papadimitropoulos Panagiotis, Lecturer, Photography
Solomon Esther, Lecturer, Museology
Stathopoulou Urania, Lecturer, Engraving

Teaching Fellows

Konstantinos Basanos, Sculpting.
Stavroula Tzima, Computer Science.

Technical Laboratory Staff

Stavros Zorbalas, Laboratory technical support.

The Department's teaching duties are supplemented by temporary teaching staff.

Career prospects - New fields of specialisation

Graduates of the Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences can find employment:

• As visual arts teachers or art historians in secondary education, in mass media, TV stations, publishing organizations.
• As officials who administer, manage and promote museums and cultural institutions (cultural management experts).
• As consultants in art galleries.
• As scientists/creators of plastic and applied arts.

Postgraduate studies

The Department awards Masters degrees (M.Sc.) and Doctoral degrees in the following directions:

A) Plastic Arts and Art Sciences
B) Art History/Theory - Exhibition Curation

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