He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Scientia Professor of Digital Innovation and Director of the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of New South Wales; Visiting Professor at Royal College of Art, London and Honorary Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne; Member of European Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOur (NERO) Working Group; Studio Corpi Quodlibet Editorial Board Member; and former executive director of the Australian Research Council | Humanities and Creative Arts.
[1] Del Favero was born in Sydney of Italian migrants from Cadore, Veneto.
[2] Del Favero's work artistically explores the visualization of unpredictable climate events such as firestorms, resulting from global warming,[3] utilizing digital media and Artificial Intelligence.
[4] His work is particularly interested in exploring our interaction with these events using virtual rehearsals to enhance our perceptual, experiential and practical preparedness.
[5][6][7] His work has been extensively curated internationally for group exhibitions such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2024 & 2013 and SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, 2019, 2018 & 2013, Düsseldorf & Cologne Open, 2022 & 2017, Art Cologne 2022, 2017, 2016, 2014 & 1995, Future Design, Experimenta Center, Heilbronn; 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.