Marco Donnarumma

Teaches at Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center

New media and sonic artist, performer and teacher, Marco Donnarumma was born in Italy and is based in Edinburgh, UK. Motivated by the principles of post-modernism and open source philosophy, his works augment human body and its real/virtual environment so to question, reposition and extend relation models between Man and machine. Weaving a thread around biophysical systems, musical and theatrical performance, participatory practices and subversive coding, he looks at the collision of critical creativity with humanized technologies. Marco has performed and spoken in 28 countries including USA and South America, Europe, India, China, South Korea and Australia. His works have been shown at leading art events (Venice Biennale, WRO Biennale), specialized festivals (Némo, Mapping, Piksel, Re-New, Laboral, EMAF, Visionsonic, Carnival of e-Creativity) and major academic conferences (ICMC, Pure Data Convention, Linux Audio Conference, SICMF). His projects have been reviewed on Wired, We Make Money Not Art, Rhizome, Weave, Turbulence.org. Most recently, he appeared in the book “New Art/Science Affinities” (CMU and Studio for Creative Enquiry, US) along with other 60 selected international creators. Marco has been artist in residence at Inspace (UK) and the National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance (DK). His work has been funded by the European Commission, Creative Scotland and the Danish Arts Council. First prize at the Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition 2012 (Georgia Tech, US). Nominated for the Screengrab New Media Award (AUS) and first prize at BLM International Electroacoustic Music Competition (IT).