Ricardo Dal Farra

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Concordia University, Music Department

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ISEA2020

Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra (AR/CA) is a composer and new media artist, educator, historian, and curator working in the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology. He is a Professor at the Music Department of Concordia University, Canada ( goo.gl/SeuhUx) and founder-director of the Electronic Arts Experimentation and Research Centre – CEIARTE of the National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina.

He has been researcher and consultant on electroacoustic music and media arts history for UNESCO, France; director of the Hexagram Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Canada; associated researcher of the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University, in the UK; senior consultant of the Amauta – Andean Media Arts Centre in Cusco, Peru; coordinator of the international research alliance DOCAM – Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage; and director of the Multimedia Communication national program at the Federal Ministry of Education, Argentina.

Dal Farra has presented his sound-art, electroacoustic and visual-music works in more than 40 countries, and recordings of his pieces are published in 23 international editions (including CDs by Computer Music Journal and Leonardo Music Journal, by MIT Press). Among others, he received awards and commissions from the Sao Paulo International Arts Biennale, Brazil; the National Endowment for the Arts, Argentina, the Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France; the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of the University of Padua, Italy; and the International Computer Music Association.

For UNESCO, he conducted extensive research on Latin American electroacoustic music (cutt.ly/Ud7TfhZ in English, and cutt.ly/Ud7Ttmi in Spanish). Funded by The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology of Montreal, he created the largest collection publicly available of Latin American Electroacoustic Music, including a database with over 2,000 recordings of works digitally preserved, composed 1957-2007 by almost 400 composers, and +200,000 words (fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=556). Also, he made a substantial contribution to the ElectroAcoustic Resource Site – EARS project (ears.huma-num.fr).

Dal Farra is founder-director of the international conference series Understanding Visual Music – UVM (held in Canada, Argentina, and Brazil), and founder-director of the international conference series Balance-Unbalance (held in Argentina, Canada, Australia, United States, Colombia, the UK, and The Netherlands) on how the media arts could contribute to solving the environmental crisis (balance-unbalance2018.org). He also has been leading art-science projects, like the three editions of the sound-art international contest organized with the Red Cross Climate Centre, and designed multiple art-science-technology educational programs.

Dr. Dal Farra was the artistic director of the Mexican electronic arts biennale Transitio in 2015, and a guest keynote at Congreso Internacional de Humanidades Digitales (2016) and SIGRaDi – Ibero-American Digital Graphic (2016), held in Argentina, and HDRio – I Congresso Internacional em Humanidades Digitais (2018), held in Brazil. He is an active member of several editorial boards: Leonardo/ISAST (MIT Press, USA), Organised Sound (Cambridge Press, UK), and Resonancias – Musical Research Journal (Catholic University of Chile).

He has served in the editorial board of Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press), the Journal of Research on Music Education (ADOMU, Argentina), and the Journal of New Music Research (The Netherlands). Dal Farra is a full member of Colegio Latinoamericano de Compositores de Música de Arte, a member of the advisory board of the Fulldome Festival (Jena, Germany), and member of the board of ISEA International, formerly the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts.

ISEA2017

Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra, is professor of electroacoustic music and media arts at Concordia University, Canada and director of the Electronic Arts Research Centre (CEIArtE) at the National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina. He has been director of Hexagram, the Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Canada; researcher on electroacoustic music and media arts history for UNESCO, France; director of the Multimedia Communication national program at the Federal Ministry of Education, Argentina; coordinator of the Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage – DOCAM international research alliance, Canada; and senior consultant of Amauta – Andean Media Arts Centre in Cusco, Peru. As an electroacoustic music composer and new media artist his work has been presented in more than 40 countries and recordings of his pieces are published in +20 international editions (including Computer Music Journal and Leonardo Music Journal by MIT Press). Dr. Dal Farra has received prizes and commissions from the International Computer Music Association and the Sao Paulo International Arts Biennial of Brazil, among others. Funded by The Daniel Langlois Foundation he created the largest collection publicly available of Latin American Electroacoustic Music. Dal Farra started the Balance-Unbalance conference series focusing on how the [media] arts could play an active role in helping to solve our environmental crisis. Jointly with the humanitarian organization Red Cross Climate Centre he developed the “art! ⋈ climate” worldwide project. He is an active member of several editorial boards: Organised Sound (Cambridge Press), Leonardo/ISAST (MIT Press), Media-N and professional organizations: Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, Earth-to-the-Earth. He is also a member of the International Advisory Committee of ISEA International.

ISEA2015

Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra, Argentina/Canada, is professor of electroacoustic music and media arts at Concordia University, Canada, and director of the Electronic Arts Research Centre (CEIArtE) at the National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina. He has been director of Hexagram, the Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Canada; researcher on electroacoustic music and media arts history for UNESCO, France; director of the Multimedia Communication national program at the Federal Ministry of Education, Argentina; coordinator of the Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage – DOCAM international research alliance, Canada; and senior consultant of Amauta – Andean Media Arts Centre in Cusco, Peru. As an electroacoustic music composer and new media artist, his work has been presented in more than 40 countries and recordings of his pieces are published in +20 international editions (including Computer Music Journal and Leonardo Music Journal by MIT Press). Dr. Dal Farra has received prizes and commissions from the International Computer Music Association and the Sao Paulo International Arts Biennial of Brazil, among others. Funded by The Daniel Langlois Foundation he created the largest collection publicly available of Latin American Electroacoustic Music. Dal Farra started the Balance-Unbalance conference series focusing on how the [media] arts could play an active role in helping to solve our environmental crisis. Jointly with the humanitarian organization Red Cross Climate Centre he developed the “art! ⋈ climate” worldwide project. He is an active member of several editorial boards: Leonardo/ISAST (MIT Press), Organised Sound (Cambridge Press), Media-N, and professional organizations: ISEA International, Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, and Earth-to-the-Earth, among others. He is also a member of the International Advisory Committee of ISEA International.

ISEA2013

Ricardo Dal Farra is professor at the Music Department of Concordia University in Montreal, and director of the Electronic Arts Research Centre (CEIArtE) at the National University of Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires. He has been director of Hexagram, Research-Creation Centre for Media Arts and Technology in Canada; national director of the Multimedia Communication program at the Ministry of Education in Argentina; coordinator of the Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage (DOCAM) international research alliance; and UNESCO’s consultant and researcher for the Digi-Arts project. His music and new media works have been presented in over 40 countries, and there are 20 international editions with recordings of his music. His work has been distinguished by the International Computer Music Association and the International Arts Biennial of San Pablo in Brazil, among others. Dal Farra is an active member of the Editorial Board of Leonardo (MIT Press) and Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press). Dal Farra created the Latin American Electroacoustic Music Archive at the Daniel Langlois Foundation of Montreal, and the Balance-Unbalance project that had recently its third conference at the UNESCO’s designated biosphere in Noosa, Australia.

ISEA 2012

Ricardo Dal Farra, Universidad de Tres de Febrero, Argentina.

ISEA2011

Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra has been conducting activities in the merging fields of arts, sciences and new technologies as a composer and multimedia artist, researcher, educator, performer and curator focusing mainly on electroacoustic music and new media arts for more than 25 years. Dr. Dal Farra holds a PhD in Etudes et pratiques des arts from Université du Québec à Montréal. He is Associate Professor at the Music Department of Concordia University in Montreal, Canada; Founding Director of Centro de Experimentación e Investigación en Artes Electrónicas – CEIArtE (Electronic Arts Experimenting and Research Centre) at National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina; and Associated Researcher at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort Univerisity, United Kingdom. Dal Farra has been national Coordinator of the Multimedia Communication program at the National Ministry of Education and Director of the Estudio de Música Electroacústica (Electroacoustic Music Lab) in Argentina; Senior Consultant for the Amauta – Andean Media Arts Centre in Cusco, Peru; Research/Creation Coordinator of the Hexagram interuniversity consortium and Coordinator of the Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage (DOCAM) international research alliance in Canada. He also has been consultant for organizations such as: The MIT Press in the US, the interuniversity project No2s in Chile; and consultant and researcher at The Daniel Langlois Foundation in Canada and UNESCO (Digi-Arts), France. Dal Farra has presented his music, new media works, research and educational developments at institutions such as Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, New York University, Dartmouth College, The Julliard School of Music and Brooklyn College in the United States; the University of Brasilia and Itaú Cultural in Brazil; the National Conservatory of Music of La Paz in Bolivia; the University of Puerto Rico; the University of Manchester and De Montfort University in the United Kingdom; Festival Internacional de la Imagen iand Museo Nacional in Colombia; International Festival of Modern Art in Ukraine; Festival Latinoamericano de Música in Venezuela; International Audio Visueel Experimenteel Festival in The Netherlands; International Festival of Contemporary Music in Turkey; Symposium on Music and Computers in Greece; Colloquio di Informatica Musicale in Italy; Computer Music Festival in Korea; Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte in Mexico; National Museum of Contemporary Art in Norway; Universidad Católica, UNIACC University and ARCIS University in Chile; NYYD in Estonia; University of Sydney in Australia; Stockholmsfestivalen För ElektroAkustisk Musik in Sweden; Teatro Colón, Espacio Fundación Telefónica and National Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Argentina; Ontario College of Art & Design and The Banff Centre in Canada; and UNESCO and IRCAM in France. His work has been distinguished with grants and commissions by the International Computer Music Association, the International Arts Biennial of San Pablo, Brazil, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Rostrum of Composers from Argentina, the Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France, and the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale from the University of Padua in Italy, among others. Dr. Dal Farra’s recent research projects have been focused on documentation and preservation of the electroacoustic music heritage; multimedia communication and educational resources; digital arts resources and virtual communities; as well as composition and media arts creation.

ISEA1997

Ricardo Dal Farra was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1957. Composer of electroacoustic, computer, mixed and instrumental music; his works have been played in 30 countries. Consultant on Multimedia at National Ministry of Culture and Education. Music Technology consultant and professor of Multimedia at ORT Technical School. Professor of Acoustic and Electroacoustics at the National Conservatory of Music and Municipal Conservatory of Music of Buenos Aires. Multimedia consultant at IMD. Director of Estudio de Musica Electroacustica. As a live electronic music performer, he played in festivals like the New Music America (1988), Stockholmsfestivalen For ElektroAkustisk Musik (1989), Composer-to-Composer (1989), Subtropics Music Festival (1991), Muestra International de Musica Electroacustica (1992), National Week of Electroacoustic Music (1994), and Festival Latinoamericano de Musica (1995). Member of the Board of Advisory Editors of the (formerly Interface) Journal of New Music Research (The Netherlands) since 1988, and Leonardo Music Journal (U.S.A.) since 1995. Awards, commissions and grants from: International Computer Music Association (1995), CCRMA of Stanford University (1992) and Rockefeller Foundation (1989,1992, 1994) from U.S.A.; National Endowment for the Arts (1988) and National Rostrum of Composers (1984, 1986, 1992, 1996) from Argentina; Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (1988) of Padova’s University, Italy; Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique of Bourges (1990), France; Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo (1989), Brazil.

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