Associate Professor Dennis Del Favero
Dennis Del Favero's photography, video and new media work has been
widely exhibited in individual exhibitions in museums and galleries
such as: Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich; ViaFarini, Milan; Neue Galerie, Graz; and included in major exhibitions such as: Kriegszustand, Battle of the Nations War Memorial,
Leipzig (joint project with Jenny Holzer), 1996; Future Cinema,
ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2003; Cinemas du futur,
Eura lille, 2004; Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2005; Artescienza: Spazio
deformato, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, 2006; Kava Kava,
Kuntsmuseum Mulheim am Der Ruhe, 2007; Biennial of Australian
Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008; Biennial of Seville, 2008.
He has held numerous Artist-in-Residencies including at ZKM, Karlsruhe;
Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide; Neue Galerie am Lasndesmuseum Joanneum,
Graz and Presentation House, Vancouver. His writings on art have
been included in a number of Birkhauser, MIT, Springer, and ZKM
publications. He is currently a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, Convenor
of the Creative Media Institute and Chair of the iCinema Research
Centre at the University of New South Wales, Senior Fellow at ZKM,
editor of the ZIP Digital Arts Edition and the Interactive
Cinema series published by Hatje Cantz.
Galleries
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Marion Scharmann Gallery, Cologne
Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
Interactive Cinema projects
Cross Currents
Pentimento
T_Visionarium
Scenario²
Video projects
Deep Sleep
Dead Heat
Limbo
Eclipse
Slipstream
Photographic projects
Prima Facie
Motel Viina Vlas
Estinto
Fold
Parting Embrace
Ombelico
Chimera
Recent Exhibitions
T-Visionarium, (with Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel) Interactive Video Installation, Eurallile, European Cultural Capital_Lille Festival, Lille, France, 2004; Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, 2006
Eclipse, DVD-Video installation, Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008
Deep Sleep, DVD-ROM installation, Mori Gallery Sydney, 2004; Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany, 2004; Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Preview Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2006; Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth
Recent Publications
Del Favero, D., Brown, N., Shaw, J. and Weibel, P. "Interactive Narrative as a Multi-Temporal Agency", Future Cinema: the cinematic imaginary after film. Eds. Shaw, J. and Weibel, P. Massachusetts: MIT Press. 2003.
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.
Del Favero, D. and Shaw, J. "Immanence and eventfulness", in Conversations: The Parallax Effect, S. McQuire and N.Papastergiadis. iCinema: Sydney. 2006.
Current Research Grants
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
ARC Discovery Grant, Australian Research Council, The Reformulation ARC Discovery Grant, Australian Research Council, "Interactive Narrative as a Form of Recombinatory Search in Cinematic Transcription of Televisual Information", 2003-2005
Research Expertise
Dr Del Favero's research has resulted in significant innovations in the theorisation of experimental aesthetics particularly focused on interactive narrative and its application to sensing, interpretive and performative technologies to enhance participant engagement with database narrative forms. These have resulted in interactive narrative research demonstrators, which now form part of major permanent collections at ZKM and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. With Professor Neil Brown and Professor Jeffrey Shaw, he has led development into ontological theories of digital narrative and development of vision-based interactive environments articulated to cinematic contexts. This research, published by MIT, has laid the groundwork for the Centre's experimental program. His experimental research to date focuses on the demonstration of participant's ability to influence events in an immersive digital narrative by variations in patterns of spatial navigation and also the demonstration of cinematic interaction through the integration of multi-modal narrative forms allowing remotely located participants to interact in virtual contexts. This is demonstrated in Pentimento (2002) and Conversations (2004). The former enables the participant to interact with the database by means of spatial movements, allowing the framing of narrative performance by the participant's pattern of movement. The latter delivers virtual apprehension between participants and agents to mutually interact within the environment. His is currently working with Jeffrey Shaw, Steve Benford and Johannes Goebel on the development of an interactive immersive environment which demonstrates narrative autonomy of machine characters in their interaction with human participants, using certain texts of Samuel Beckett.
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, 1977
Dip. Ed. (Arts) The University of Sydney, Australia, 1976
Bachelor of Arts, The University of Sydney, 1976
Current Appointment
ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow
Co-Director, iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, The University of New South Wales.
Employment History
2005-2010 ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow
2001-2005 ARC PostDoctoral Research Fellow
1999-2005 Research Fellow, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 Vice-Chancellor's Post Doctoral Research Fellow, The University of New South Wales
1998 Research Fellow, University of Potsdam, Germany
1997 Research Fellow, Foundation Institute, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy
Exhibitions and Publications 2000-2005
DVD-ROM/DVD-Video Publications
1. 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.
2. Del Favero, D. Deep Sleep, DVD-ROM/DVD-Video, iCinema Digital Monographs, Sydney: iCinema. 2004.
3. 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.
Exhibitions, New Media and Interactive Cinema Projects
1. Electronic/Digital: CD-ROM project. 2000. The Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg.
2. Requiem: Video installation. 2000. John Curtin Gallery, Perth.
3. Journeys into Dreamland: Video installation. 2000. Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
4. Morphologies: Video installation. 2001. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.
5. Angelo Nero: Video installation. 2001. Kunstverein Pforzheim, Pforzheim. Script: Stephen Sewell.
6. Pentimento: Video installation. 2001. Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich; Kunstversin Pforzheim, Pforzheim. Script: Stephen Sewell. Music: Brett Dean.
7. Requiem: Video installation. 2001. Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich.
8. Sottovoce: Video installation. 2002. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Script: Stephen Sewell
9. Pentimento: Interactive computer installation and interactive DVD-ROM. 2002-3. ZKM, Karlsruhe; Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; Kiasma, Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; ICT, Tokyo. Script: Stephen Sewell. Music: Brett Dean.
10. T-Visionarium: Extended virtual environment, with Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel. 2004. European Cultural Capital Festival, Lille; Avignon Festival, Avignon; ZKM (permanent collection).
11. Fantasmi: Video and New Media Installations. 2004. Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.
12. Deep Sleep: DVD-ROM/DVD-Video, Video Installation. 2004. Sprengel Museum Hannover, Mori Gallery, Sydney; Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, ZKM, Karslruhe.
13. Conversations: Distributed Virtual Environment, with Jeffrey Shaw and Ross Gibson. 2004. Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
14. Glass Studio, Extended Virtual Environment, with Jeffrey Shaw, Neil Brown, Nikos Papastergiadis, Scott McQuire, Volker Kuchelmeister and Andy Arthurs. 2004. Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Experimental Writing Projects
1. Del Favero, D. Foreign Bodies: Experimental Radio performance, with Tony MacGregor. ABC FM. 1999
2. Del Favero, D. Chelmsford: Experimental Radio performance, with Stephen Sewell and Tony MacGregor. ABC FM. 2004
Book Chapters
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Del Favero, D. "T_Visionarium: the aesthetic transcription of televisual database”, in Present, Continuous, Past. Eds. U. Frohne & M. Schieren. Springer. New York. 2004: 33-48.
4. 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
1. Del Favero, D. "T_Visionarium: the aesthetic transcription of televisual database", Present, Continuous Past Conference. University of the Arts Bremen. 2004.
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