Marco Donnarumma's blog

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New media and sonic artist, performer and teacher, Marco Donnarumma was born in Italy and is based in Edinburgh, UK. Weaving a thread around biomedia research, 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 selected at leading art events (ISEA, Venice Biennale, WRO Biennale), specialized festivals (Sonorities, Némo, Mapping, Piksel, Re-New, Laboral, EMAF, Carnival of e-Creativity) and major academic conferences (NIME, ICMC, Pure Data Convention, Linux Audio Conference Stanford CCRMA, SICMF).

His projects have been reviewed on Wired, Create Digital Music, 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. 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 in the Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition 2012, at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (USA). Nominated for the Screengrab New Media Award (AUS) and first prize at BLM International Electroacoustic Music Award (IT).

Since 2007 he is a director for the Live Performers Meeting, a leading gathering of international audiovisual artists. He is an associate at CIRCLE, a group of researchers and creative practitioners among arts and academic institutions.