Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Dr. Dalila Honorato is a social scientist creating safe spaces for convergence of Art & Science ideas. Her research explores embodiment, monstrosity, the uncanny, and the balance between phobia and paraphilia. She's a Professor of Aesthetics and Visual Semiotics at Ionian University (Greece) and collaborates with the University of Lisbon's Center of Philosophy of Sciences. She has spoken at prestigious international platforms and been a guest-fellow at universities of Malta, RPI and UNAM. She founded the "Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science" (TTT) conferences and co-founded with Marta de Menezes "FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science, and Technology." As principal editor of TTT proceedings and co-EIC of Technoetic Arts journal, she leads the "Rewilding Cultures" grant at Ionian University, where she directs the Interactive Arts Lab, heads the Master of Research in Hybrid Arts, and serves on multiple committees.