Dennis Del Favero

Biography

Dennis Del Favero is an 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 current work uses Machine Learning based visualisation to explore extreme climate events such as wildfires and our interactions with them. At present he is developing the world’s first AI extreme fire 3D interactive visualisation system for use by fire science, emergency response, TV and Online broadcasters and museums. Rather than evoking their impact, it explores the unpredictable processes than underpin our interaction with extreme fires to enhance our ability to prepare and respond to them.