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Picturing the Climate Emergency

Dennis Del Favero

Susanne Julia Thurow

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English
NewSouth Publishing
01 August 2026
How Can Multi-Disciplinary Artistic Works Prepare Us For Future Climates?

In his latest works, world-renowned visual artist Dennis Del Favero interrogates our evolving relationship with increasingly unpredictable and extreme climate events. Equinox, an installation that immerses audiences inside larger-than-life wildfire scenarios, offers a visceral reimagining of their unanticipated dynamics. iFire provides a training system for Australia's largest urban firefighting service, enabling responders to adjust variables such as wind speed, so they can rehearse their response to future fires under the escalating uncertainty of climate conditions.

In Picturing the Climate Emergency, leading international art scholars and experts in artificial intelligence, fire science and emergency response analyse these works and explore their implications for artists, art audiences, scientists, frontline personnel and at-risk communities.
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Imprint:   NewSouth Publishing
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 190mm, 
ISBN:   9781761170584
ISBN 10:   1761170589
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Susanne Julia Thurow is Associate Director Research (Creative Arts) and Scientia Lecturer at UNSW Sydney's iCinema Research Centre. Before this, she was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow on Dennis Del Favero's Burning Landscapes Laureate project. Working at the intersection of art, design, performance and technology, she has collaborated with partners such as Fire and Rescue NSW, Sydney Theatre Company, Opera Australia and Sydney's Powerhouse Museum to explore how immersive visualisation and Artificial Intelligence can transform design processes and audience experience. Her first book, Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage: Land, People, Culture (Routledge, 2020), won the Association for the Study of Australian Literature's Alvie Egan Award in 2021. She is co-editor of Climate Disaster Preparedness: Reimagining Extreme Events through Art and Technology (Springer, 2024) and has also collaborated on the development of digital creative works, including the iFire project and its training application for emergency services.

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