Dennis Del Favero is an Australian artist and academic. He has been awarded numerous Artist-in-Residencies and Fellowships, including an Artist-in-Residence at Neue Galerie Graz and Visiting Professorial Fellowship at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Scientia Professor of Digital Innovation and executive director of the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of New South Wales; Visiting professor at IUAV, Venice; Member of the editorial board of Studio Corpi's Quodlibet, Rome; and former executive director of the Australian Research Council | Humanities and Creative Arts (2015–2016).

Life and work

Del Favero was born in Sydney of Italian migrants from Cadore, Veneto. He completed undergraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral studies in philosophy and art at the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, the University of Technology, Sydney and ZKM, Germany. Del Favero's work artistically explores the visualization of the unpredictable and evolving relationship between human and terrestrial systems as the result of global warming, utilizing digital media and Artificial Intelligence. His work is particularly interested in exploring how this relationship presents itself in everyday life, from climate refugees seeking safety to extreme events such as wildfires. His work has been extensively curated internationally for group exhibitions such as Düsseldorf & Cologne Open, 2022 & 2017, Art Cologne 2022, 2017, 2016, 2014 & 1995, Future Design, Experimenta Center, Heilbronn; SIGGRAPH Asia, 2019, 2018 & 2013; The Art of Immersion, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2017; Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2014 & 2005; Biennale of Architecture, Rotterdam, 2009; Imagining Media@ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2009; Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide, 2008; Artescienza: Spazio Deformato, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, 2006; Cinemas du Futur, Euralille, 2004; Future Cinema, Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; (dis)Locations, ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2001; Fotofeis, Edinburgh & Glasgow, 1998; and Kriegszustand'', Battle of the Nations War Memorial, Leipzig, 1996. Del Favero was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2024.

Representing galleries