Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1957
Composer

Professor of music and electronic arts at Concordia University, Canada. Founder-director of the Electronic Arts Experimentation and Research Centre (CEIARTE). Director of the international symposia Balance-Unbalance (BunB) on art-science and the environmental crisis; and Understanding Visual Music (UVM). 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; and 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. Creator of the Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection hosted by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Canada. Member of the editorial board of Leonardo (MIT Press), Organised Sound (Cambridge Press), and Artnodes (UOC), and the board of directors of ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts). With a Ph.D. in Arts (UQAM) and a Post-doctorate in Art-Science — Applied Transdiscipline and Innovation, Dal Farra is a composer and artist specializing in transdisciplinary actions with science and emergent technologies.

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