Dennis Del Favero

Biography

Dennis Del Favero is an artist, ARC Laureate Fellow, Chair Professor of Digital Innovation, Director of the iCinema Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and Senior Visiting Fellow Royal College of Art (UK). He is a former Executive Director of the Australian Research Council | Humanities and Creative Arts. His work has been widely exhibited in major group exhibitions including Film Cologne, Battle of the Nations War Memorial Leipzig (joint project with Jenny Holzer), SIGGRAPH, ISEA and in solo exhibitions in museums such as Sprengel Museum Hannover,  Neue Galerie Graz and ZKM Karlsruhe. His work is represented by Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne and Mais Wright Gallery, Sydney.

His multi-award winning immersive 3D visualisation work has been commercialised as an industry standard by the Australian and Chinese mining industry to enhance hazard awareness and safety. He has recently completed a 3D stage design prototyping system for Sydney Theatre Company and an immersive augmented reality display system of museum collections for the Powerhouse Museum, while completing a one-to-one scale rehearsal design digital modelling system for Opera Australia. At present he is developing the world’s first AI 3D interactive visualisation of extreme fires for use by artists, fire scientists, emergency responders and broadcasters. Rather than evoking their impact, it explores the unpredictable processes than underpin our interaction with these events in our exact location to enhance our ability to prepare and respond to them. Project partners include the ABC, Australian Network for Art and Technology, Data61, AFAC (National Council for Fire and Emergency Services), Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW), Royal College of Art (UK), San Jose State University (USA) and University of Munster (Germany).