Dalila Honorato

Director of the Research Program in Hybrid Arts

October 2025

Field:	Aesthetics with emphasis on Image Semiology
Rank:	Professor
Government Gazette:	2476/20-08-2024, τ. Γ΄
Telephone:	+30 2661087724
Fax:	2661087866
Email:	honorato@ionio.gr
WWW:	http://ionio.academia.edu/DalilaHonorato
Office hours:	* sabbatical leave acad. year 2025-2026 *

Honorato Dalila

Honorato Dalila: Curriculum Vitae
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Studies/Education:

BA in Communication Studies and Specialization in Journalism, High Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (1996)
MA in Communication, Department of Communication and Mass Media, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1999)
PhD, Department of Communication and Mass Media, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (2004)

Research Interests:

Philosophy of Communication and Media Semiotics
Aesthetics and Ethics in Hybrid Arts
Media Archaeology and Speculative Futures
Art and Sciences Approaches to Wellbeing
Gender Narratives in Art and Science

Indicative Courses:

[LOGY] Media Archaeology
[PORT] Art Project Support
[PROJ] Major Project
[YEB3] Semiotic Analysis of New Media
[THE202] Communication Theory
[THE302] Philosophy and Media Aesthetics
[THE602] Semiotics of Multimedia Ι
[THE702] Semiotics of Multimedia ΙΙ
[THE806] Hybrid Arts Practices

Academic Positions:

2024-ongoing: Professor, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University.
2021-2024: Associate Professor, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University.
2019-2021: Assistant Professor (tenured), Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University.
2019: Guest Lecturer, Faculdad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (Postgraduate Program).
2015-2018: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University.
2016-2017: Guest Lecturer, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Alma Mater Europaea (PhD program).
2009-2015: Lecturer, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University.
2005-2009: Teaching Staff (P.D. 407/80), Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University.
2006-2008: Teaching Staff (P.D. 407/80), Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences, University of Ioannina.

Admin Lead Positions:

2024-ongoing: Director Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts Lab).
2024-ongoing: Director Master of Research (MARes) in Hybrid Arts.

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Supervision:

2025-ongoing: " Accessibility for people with visual impairments in art spaces: the role of narrative technologies in experiencing visual arts ", Vasiliki Manouilidou, PhD candidate, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University.
2022-2025: " Robots go to Kindergarten: visions of artificial intelligence in preschool education ", Dr. Rena Katsenou, PostDoc researcher, InArts Lab, Ionian University.
2020-ongoing: "Incest in world cinema: the cinematic portrayal of gender, social roles and sexual orientation within incestuous relationships", Styliani-Anna Klimatsaki, PhD candidate, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University.
2020-present: "Enacting multi-sensory embodiment: exploring the deepening of subjective time embodiment in mixed media performative art praxis via the lens of Butoh notation", Dr. Eleni Kolliopoulou, PostDoc researcher, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University (Greece).
2019-ongoing: "Transmedia Laboratories of Storytelling: Performing Knowledge and Fantasy in between Screens and Stages" by Dr. Alexandros Papadopoulos, PostDoc researcher, InArts Lab, Ionian University.
2018-present: "Identity and Body in Internet Art: Bridging 'Logo/Keimeno' with 'Eikona/Soma'" by Marily Argyrokastriti, PhD researcher, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University.
2017-2019: "The interdisciplinary and intermedia impact of site-specific walking performance in the field of GeoHumanities" by Dr. Bill Psarras, PostDoc researcher, InArts Lab, Ionian University.
2016-present: "Aspects of the Monstrous in 21st Century Audiovisual Fiction" by Yorgos Drosos, PhD researcher, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University.

Indicative Publications as Editor:

Proceedings collection Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science (published by Ionian University)
Technoetic Arts: a journal of speculative research (published by Intellect)

Indicative Publications as Author:

Mackenzie, Louise; Šebjanič, Robertina; Żyniewicz, Karolina; Burr Raty, Isabel; Honorato, Dalila. “Staying in Touch: case study of artistic research during the COVID-19 lock-down”. Artnodes, [online], 2021, Num. 27, https://doi.org/10.7238/a.v0i27.375059.
Buiani, Roberta, Felipe Shibuya, Adam Zaretsky, Charlotte Jarvis, Jaden Hastings and Dalila Honorato. “Breeding Sentience: Queering Lineage and Voguing Enhancement”. In Why Sentience? Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA 2020), edited by Christine Ross and Chris Salter, 607-612. Montreal: Printemps Numérique/ISEA, 2020. ISBN: 978-2-9816413-2-8.
Dalila Honorato (2016), "'I like the way it hurts': Impressions on The Duke of Burgundy" published in the Greek journal for film and literature To Anthropino vol. 1:82-91, February 2016.
Dalila Honorato (2005), Ethos & Pathos: Virtue and Strength in Human Expression. Athens: Fagottobooks.

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