Stu Favilla

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• ISEA2024

  Audio/interaction designer Dr Stu Favilla has been recognised internationally for three decades, contributing to computer music, interaction design and digital musical instrument design. Winner of notable international prizes including the Karl Szucka Preis and finalist for the Bourges Electroacoustique Prize, Stu Favilla has developed digital music instruments and interactions rich in creative possibilities and skill-developing affordances. His work has been profiled by the Qantas in-flight magazine, International and Australian Television, featured by the DK Books’ Cool Stuff series and in numerous academic books including the recent publication “Body as Instrument” by Mary Mainsbridge (Bloomsbury, Academic). He has per-formed complete concert programs for the European main stage including Festival deBase (Basel Art Fair, Switzerland), Festival Resonances (Pompidou, Paris), AudioArt (Krackow) and twice at Earzoom (Ljubljana). A specialist in software development and audio and video signal processing, Stu was a silver medalist at the 2020 International Design Awards for his efforts in developing data-driven and generative-life video wall projections and public exhibitions. An innovator in the area of data sonification, spatial sound, and immersive audio, Stu currently heads the Swinburne Sonic Research group.