Interview with Ricardo Dal Farra – Balance-Unbalance

Ricardo Dal Farra is Professor of Music and Media Arts at Concordia University, Canada.

He is founder-director of the Electronic Arts Experimentation and Research Centre (CEIARTE) at UNTREF, Argentina, director of the international symposia Balance-Unbalance on art-science and the environmental crisis; and also Understanding Visual Music.

Dal Farra has been

• director of the Hexagram Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Canada
• coordinator of the Multimedia Communication Area of the Ministry of Education, Argentina
• researcher at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre of De Montfort University, UK
• coordinator of the international alliance DOCAM – Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage
• senior consultant of the Amauta New Media Art Centre of Cusco, Peru
• researcher of UNESCO, France, for its project Digi-Arts

He co-designed the Electronic Arts university program at UNTREF, and the Music Production program at the ORT Technical School, in Argentina. And is the creator of the Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection hosted by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Canada.

Dal Farra has presented his sound and visual art in more than 40 countries, and recordings of his pieces have been published in 23 international editions (including CDs by Computer Music Journal and Leonardo Music Journal).

He is a member of the editorial board of Leonardo (MIT Press), Organised Sound (Cambridge Press), and Artnodes (UOC), and the board of directors of ISEA International (International Symposium on Electronic Arts). Dal Farra holds a Ph.D. in Study and Practice of the Arts, and a Post-doctorate in Art-Science – Applied Transdiscipline and Innovation.

In this interview, Ricardo talks to Maggie about his background and work, particularly Balance/Unbalance.

This discussion took place in the context of the Strange Intelligences Lab.

 

Interview by Dr Maggie Buxton, Director of AwhiWorld and video production and editing by Jarred Taylor.

Image provided by Ricardo Dal Farra