Marco Donnarumma is an internationally renown performer, musician and
researcher active since 2004. He works with biotechnologies for the performing arts
since 6 years, when he created the Xth Sense. He has over a decade of experience in
creating and performing with new musical instruments, and has published his research
in specialized conferences and top tier journals. He uses human bodies and machines
as materials. Working with biophysical media, that is, biomedical technologies,
sound devices, computer software, sensor and transducers, he creates artworks where
human bodies and machines extend, transform or disrupt each other. His live
performances, concerts and installations are renown for combining rigorous science,
technical sophistication and critical concepts into intense live experiences. Marco
has performed and spoken in over 50 countries across North and South America, Asia,
Australia and Europe. His works have been presented at leading art and music events,
digital, sound and performance art festivals, research institutions, historical
music venues and national museums. Among them are Sónar+D, ISEA, Venice Biennale,
BBC Music, ISCM World Music Days, transmediale, CTM, FILE, Panorama, NYEAF, Sound
Art China, CYNETART, Piksel, EMPAC, Stanford CCRMA, NYU, STEIM, IRCAM, FACT,
Experimental Intermedia, Spectrum NYC, Café Oto, Mumuth Concert Hall, Hoerbar, Museo
Reina Sofia, CCCB Barcelona. He has received a number of awards, most notably the
first prize in the Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition (Georgia Tech, US) for
the Xth Sense; the Cynetart Prize for Computer Based Art (DE) and the Transitio New
Media Art Award (MX) for Nigredo, created with Marije Baalman. His projects have
been reviewed on BBC, The WIRE, Forbes, Reuters, ARTE.TV, Wired, RTVE, El Pais,
CreativeApplications, ResonanceFM, Weave, Create Digital Music, We Make Money Not
Art and Digicult. He was granted fundings from the European Commission, British
Council, Creative Scotland, New Media Scotland, and the Danish Arts Council. He has
received commissions from Festival Transmediale and the European Conference of
Promoters of New Music, among the others, and has been an invited artist in
residence at STEIM (NL), Inspace (UK), and the National School of Theatre and
Contemporary Dance (DK).
