Dalila Honorato

Dalila Honorato, Ph.D, is a facilitator of safe spaces for hosting the interaction of ideas around liminal issues in the frame of Art&Sci. Her research focus is on embodiment, monstrosity, the uncanny and the acrobatic balance between phobia and paraphilia. She is Tenured Assistant Professor in Aesthetics and Visual Semiotics at the Ionian University, Greece, and collaborator at the Center of Philosophy of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. One of the founding members of the Interactive Arts Lab, she is the head of the steering committee of the conference "Taboo-Transgression Transcendence in Art & Science", and, together with Marta de Menezes, the conceptualizer and developer of the project "FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology". She is a full member of the Board of Directors of the “Municipal Gallery of Corfu” (2020-2023). She was a guest speaker at the festival Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Love (Croatia), at the Coalesce Center for Biological Art, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (USA), at the BioDesign Seminar Series, Parsons, The New School, New York (USA), at the symposium Arts Based Research In Times Of Climate & Social Change at CNSI - UCLA (USA), at The Artist as Host: ASFA Lectures Series, Athens School of Fine Arts (Greece), at the a.pass Research Center (Belgium), at the CIAC, University of Algarve (Portugal), at Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, (USA), at FACTT 2018 Berlin at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), etc.