Marco Donnarumma
Marco Donnarumma (born 1984 in
Naples) is an Italian
performance artist,
sound artist,
new media artist, inventor and theorist based in
Berlin. His work addresses the relationship between body, politics and technology. He is widely known for his performances fusing sound,
computation,
robotics and
biotechnology. He designs and builds body-related technologies, such as robotic prostheses powered by
AI and musical instruments that use the body’s acoustic signals to create sound. Ritual, shock and entrainment are key elements to his aesthetics. Donnarumma is often associated with
cyborg and
posthuman artists and is acknowledged for his contribution to human-machine interfacing through the unconventional use of
muscle sound and
biofeedback.
From 2016 to 2018 he was a Research Fellow at
Berlin University of the Arts in collaboration with the Neurorobotics Research Lab at
Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. In 2019, together with bioartist Margherita Pevere and media artist Andrea Familari, he co-founded the artists group for hybrid live art
Fronte Vacuo. Since 2022, he is an Associate Researcher at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, Reykjavik. In 2022-2023 he was a Medienkunst Fellow at medienwerk.nrw. Donnarumma was named by
Der Standard a pioneer in the field of performing arts with advanced technologies.
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