Ricardo Dal Farra

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 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.

Dr. Dal Farra's 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 is also the 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; Associated Researcher at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort Univerisity, United Kingdom; and Senior Consultant for the Amauta - Andean Media Arts Centre in Cusco, Peru. He 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; 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 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.

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.

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