Associate Professor Dennis Del Favero

Dennis Del Favero's photography, video and new media artwork has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries such as Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Viafarini, Milan and Neue Galerie, Graz. It has been included in major exhibitions such as Sex and Crime, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 1996, Kriegszustand, Battle of the Nations War Memorial, Leipzig (joint project with Jenny Holzer), 1996, Cinemas du futur, European Cultural Capital, Lille, 2004, Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2005, Artescienza: Spazio deformato, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, 2006, Biennial of Seville, Seville, 2008, Imagining Media@ZKM, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2009. He has held numerous Fellowships and Artist-in-Residencies at various institutions, including the University of Potsdam and Neue Galerie, Graz. He is currently an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, Director of the iCinema Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Professorial Fellow at ZKM, Germany, Visiting Professor at IUAV University of Venice and Visiting Associate Professor at City University Hong Kong. He is editor of the Digital Arts Edition series published by Hatje Cantz, a member of the Australia Council's Visual Arts and Crafts Board and the Australian Research Council's HCA Research Evaluation Committee for the ERA.


Galleries

Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

Marion Scharmann Gallery, Cologne

Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney


New Media projects

Scenario²
T_Visionarium
Pentimento
Cross Currents


Video projects

Arnica (Todtnauberg + Crevasse)
Magnesium Light (You and I + Hold me)
Eclipse
Limbo
Deep Sleep


Photographic projects

Affinity
Foreshadow
Chimera
Ombelico
Estinto
Parting Embrace
Prima Facie
Motel Viina Vlas


Recent Exhibitions

Del Favero, D. Imagining Media@ZKM, Media Museum, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2009.

Del Favero, D., Neil Brown, Matt McGinity, Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel T-Visionarium, Interactive Video Installation, Biennial of Seville, 2008; Un Volcan Numerique, Le Volcan Scene Nationale du Havre; Second Nature, Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam International Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2009.

Del Favero, D.Magnesium Light,Marion Scharmann Galerie, Cologne, 2009.


Recent Publications

Del Favero, D., Frohne, U., and Weibel, P. (Eds.). Un-Imaginable. Osfildern: Hatje Cantz. 2008.

Del Favero, D., Brown, N.C., Shaw, J., and Weibel, P. "Experimental Aesthetics and Interactive Narrative". ACUADS Conference Report, University of New South Wales. 2007.

Del Favero, D., Brown, N., Shaw, J. and Weibel, P. “T_Visionarium, Toward a Dialogic Concept of Digital Narrative”, in Disappearing Architecture: From Real to Virtual to Quantum. Eds. Flachbart, G. and Weibel, P. Birkhauser, Basel. 2005.


Current Research Grants

ARC Linkage Grant, Australian Research Council, "Narrative reformulation of museological data: the coherent representation of information by users in interactive systems" 2010-2012

ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, 2005-2010

ARC Discovery Grant, "Co-evolutionary Narrative as machine autonomy in the relationship between artificial agents and human participants in interactive cinema" 2005-2009


Research Expertise

Dennis Del Favero's research explores memory and inter-dependency within new media, video, photography and aesthetics. The research has resulted in significant innovations in the theoretical development of experimental aesthetics and is particularly focused on interactive narrative and its application to digital technologies. The overarching goal of this is to advance participant engagement with database forms that address contemporary social questions. His experimental research to date focuses on the exploration of the participant's ability to co-author events in an immersive digital narrative by means of spatial navigation and cinematic interaction. This is demonstrated in Pentimento (2002), Conversations (2004) and T_Visionarium (2008). A number of these experimental projects now form part of major permanent collections at ZKM and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

Among his current projects are:
(a) Scenario² (with Jeffrey Shaw, Steve Benford, Johannes Goebel and Stephen Sewell) an interactive cinema project that explores the process of childhood memories through a narrative that is dynamically co-produced by intelligent virtual characters and human participants as they interact with each other.
(b) iLAND an interactive cinema project that allows users to reformulate the meaning of landscape within the context of climate change, by integrating their own landscape imagery into a larger on-line television platform linked to global internet sites and databases.
He is the recipient of eight Australian Research Council grants, and co-led the development of new media projects that were awarded the highly prestigious International Design Excellence Award (USA) and were the focus of large-scale commercialisation.


Qualifications

DCA (Media Arts) University of Technology, Sydney, 1999
Master of Art (Visual Art) The University of New South Wales, 1989
Grad. Dip. (Visual Art) The University of New South Wales, 1985
Dip. Ed. (Arts) The University of Sydney, Australia, 1976
Bachelor of Arts, The University of Sydney, 1976


Current Appointment

ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow
Director, iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, The University of New South Wales
Visiting Professorial Fellow, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Visiting Professor, IUAV University of Venice, Italy
Visiting Associate Professor, City University Hong Kong


Employment History

2005-2010 ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, UNSW
2001-2005 ARC Post Doctoral Research Fellow, UNSW
2006-2008 Senior Research Fellow, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
1999-2005 Research Fellow, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 Vice-Chancellor's Post Doctoral Research Fellow, UNSW
1998 Research Fellow, University of Potsdam, Germany
1997 Research Fellow, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy



Exhibitions and Publications 2004-2009

Exhibitions, New Media and Interactive Cinema Projects (selected)

Del Favero, D. (2009). Magnesium Light, Marion Scharmann, Cologne.
Del Favero, D. (2009). In Search of Utopia, Galway Arts Centre, Galway.
Del Favero, D. (2008). Un_Imaginable, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. (Catalogue).
Del Favero, D. (2008). Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. (Catalogue).
Shaw, J., Del Favero, D., Brown, N.C., Compton, P., Pagnucco, M., Van Schaik, A., Jin, C., Seah, H., Weibel, P., Kenderdine, S., Hart, T., and Fritz, J. (2008). PLACE-Hampi. eARTS Festival: eLANDSCAPES, Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Shanghai.
Del Favero, D. (2007). Apparitions, Kunstraum Marion Scharmann, Cologne.
Del Favero, D. (2007). Kava Kava, Kunstmuseum Mulheim, Mulheim. (Catalogue).
Del Favero, D. (2007). 5x5, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. (Catalogue).
Del Favero, D. (2007). YOUser: Century of the Consumer, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. (Catalogue).
Del Favero, D. (2006). Afterwards, Erasmus Bridge Tower, Rotterdam.
Del Favero, D. (2006). Apparitions, Kunstraum Marion Scharmann, Cologne.
Del Favero, D. (2006). Contemporary Australian Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Del Favero, D. (2006). Deep Sleep. Matthew and Others, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
Del Favero, D., Shaw, J., Brown, N.C., and Weibel, P. (2006). T_Visionarium, Artescienza 2006: La Rivoluzione Algoritmica, Spazio Deformato, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome.
Del Favero, D. (2006). Art Amsterdam 2006, Amsterdam.
Del Favero, D. (2006). Deep Sleep. Crash, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth.
Del Favero, D. (2006). Points of View: Australian Photography 1985-1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. (Catalogue).
Del Favero, D., Shaw, J., Brown, N.C., and Weibel, P. (2006). T_Visionarium I. Algorithmic Revolution in Artescienza 2006: Spazio Deformato, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome.
Del Favero, D. (2005). Fantasmi, Sprengel Museum, Hannover. (Catalogue).
Del Favero, D. (2005). In the Line of Flight, China Millennium Art Museum, Beijing.
Del Favero, D. (2005). Out of the Body Encounters, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. (Catalogue).
Del Favero, D. (2005).Videonale, Kunstmuseum, Bonn. (Catalogue).
Del Favero, D. (2005).Preview Berlin, Marion Scharmann, Berlin.
Del Favero, D. (2004). Deep Sleep, Implant Art, Bonn.
Del Favero, D. (2004). Deep Sleep and Ombelico, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich.
Del Favero, D. (2004). Fantasmi, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. (Catalogue).
Del Favero, D. (2004). Deep Sleep, Mori Gallery, Sydney.
Del Favero, D., Shaw, J., Brown, N.C., and Weibel, P. (2004). T_Visionarium I, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.
Del Favero, D., Shaw, J., Brown, N.C., and Weibel, P. (2004). T_Visionarium I. Cinémas du Futur in Lille 2004 Capitale Européenne de la Culture, Centre Euralille, Lille.(Catalogue).
Del Favero, D., Shaw, J., Gibson, R., and Howard, I. (2004). Conversations, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

Experimental Writing Projects (selected)

Del Favero, D. Chelmsford: Experimental Radio performance, with Stephen Sewell and Tony MacGregor. ABC FM. 2004


DVD-ROM/DVD-Video Publications (selected)

Papastergiadis, N. and McQuire, S. Conversations: The Parallex Effect. D. Del Favero (series ed.). DVD-Video and book. iCinema Digital Monograph. Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales. 2006.

Del Favero, D. Deep Sleep, DVD-ROM/DVD-Video, iCinema Digital Monographs, Sydney: iCinema. 2004.

Del Favero, D. and Shaw, J. (eds.). (dis)LOCATIONS. Karlsruhe; Sydney: ZKM, Centre for Art and Media; Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales. 2001.


Books

Del Favero, D., Frohne, U., and Weibel, P. (Eds.) (2008). Un-Imaginable. Osfildern: Hatje Cantz


Book Chapters (selected)

Kenderdine, S., Shaw, J., Del Favero, D., and Brown, N.C. (2008) "PLACE-Hampi: Co- Evolutionary Narrative and Augmented Stereographic Panoramas, Vijayanagara, India.” In New Heritage: New Media And Cultural Heritage. Eds. Y. Kalay, T. Kvan, and J. Affleck. Oxfordshire: Routledge. 275-293
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Del Favero, D.“Digitally Expanded Forms of Narration”, in (dis)LOCATIONS. Eds. D. Del Favero and J. Shaw. Karlsruhe: Sydney: ZKM, Centre for Art and Media; Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales. 2001: 8-9.

Del Favero, D., Brown, N., Shaw, J. and Weibel, P. “Interactive Narrative as a Multi-Temporal Agency”, in Future Cinema. Eds. J. Shaw and P. Weibel. Massachusetts: MIT Press. 2003: 312-315.

Del Favero, D. "T_Visionarium: the aesthetic transcription of televisual databas", in Present, Continuous, Past. Eds. U. Frohne & M. Schieren. Springer. New York. 2004: 33-48.

Del Favero, D., Brown, N., Shaw, J. and Weibel, P. "Towards a dialogic concept of digital narrative”, in Disappearing Architecture: from Real to Virtual to Quantum . Eds. G. Flachbart and P. Weibel. Heidelberg:Birkhauser Verlag. 2005: 144-151.


Conference Papers (Selected)

Del Favero, D., Brown, N.C., Shaw, J., and Weibel, P. (2007). "Experimental Aesthetics and Interactive Narrative." ACUADS Conference Report, University of New South Wales.

McGinity, M., Shaw, J., Del Favero, D., and Kuchelmeister, V. (2007)." AVIE: A Versatile Multi-User Stereo 360-Degree Interactive VR Theatre." The 34th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego, California, USA, 5-9 August.

Del Favero, D. "T_Visionarium: the aesthetic transcription of televisual database", Present, Continuous Past Conference. University of the Arts Bremen. 2004.