Scientia Professor Dennis Del Favero

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Dennis Del Favero

Scientia Professor Dennis Del Favero is a research artist, ARC Laureate Fellow, Chair Professor of Digital Innovation, Executive Director of the iCinema Research Centre at UNSW; Visiting Professor at Royal College of Art (London); Honorary Professorial Fellow University of Melbourne; Member of the European Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOur (NERO) and Editorial Board Member of Quodlibet Studio Corpi (Italy). He is a former Executive Director of the Australian Research Council | Humanities and Creative Arts.

 

Del Favero has held numerous solo exhibitions including at Neue Galerie, Graz, Sprengel Museum, Hanover and ViaFarini, Milan and participated in major group exhibitions including, ‘Battle of the Nations War Memorial’ Leipzig (joint project with Jenny Holzer), ‘Biennial of Seville’, ‘International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam’, ‘Sydney Film Festival’, ‘Videonale’, Bonn, ISEA and SIGGRAPH. He is engaged in interdisciplinary arts and technology projects that explore our interaction with extreme climate scenarios through the reformulation of artificially intelligent aesthetics using immersive visualisation. He is currently leading a major international project to investigate the AI interactive visualisation of unforeseen and unpredictable extreme fire scenarios such as those of Australian Black Summer 2019/2020  and US Los Angeles 2025, to enhance visceral perception and practical response. This is being developed for deployment with partners including the AFAC (National Council for Fire and Emergency Services), Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CSIRO/Data61, Fire and Rescue NSW and the Royal College of Art.