Dennis Del Favero is an Australian artist and academic. He has been awarded numerous Artist-in-Residencies and Fellowships, including an Artist-in-Residence at Neue Galerie Graz and inaugural Visiting Professorial Fellowship at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Scientia Professor of Digital Innovation and Director of the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of New South Wales; Visiting Professor at Royal College of Art, London and Honorary Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne; Member of European Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOur (NERO) Working Group; Studio Corpi Quodlibet Editorial Board Member; and former executive director of the Australian Research Council | Humanities and Creative Arts.
He was also elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2024. [1]
Del Favero was born in Sydney of Italian migrants from Cadore, Veneto. He completed undergraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral studies in philosophy and art at the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, the University of Technology, Sydney and ZKM, Germany. [2]
Del Favero's work artistically explores the visualization of unpredictable climate events such as firestorms, resulting from global warming, [3] utilizing digital media and Artificial Intelligence. [4] His work is particularly interested in exploring our interaction with these events using virtual rehearsals to enhance our perceptual, experiential and practical preparedness. [5] [6] [7]
His work has been extensively curated internationally for group exhibitions such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2024 & 2013 and SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, 2019, 2018 & 2013, Düsseldorf & Cologne Open, 2022 & 2017, Art Cologne 2022, 2017, 2016, 2014 & 1995, Future Design, Experimenta Center, Heilbronn; The Art of Immersion, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2017; Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2014 & 2005; ''Biennale of Architecture, Rotterdam, 2009; Imagining Media@ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2009; Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide, 2008; Artescienza: Spazio Deformato, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, 2006; Cinemas du Futur, Euralille, 2004; Future Cinema, Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; (dis)Locations, ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2001; Fotofeis, Edinburgh & Glasgow, 1998; and Kriegszustand, Battle of the Nations War Memorial, Leipzig, 1996.
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