Marco Donnarumma (DE) is an artist, performer, inventor, stage director and theorist weaving together contemporary performance, new media art and interactive computer music since the early 2000s. To create his artworks, he manipulates bodies and invents machines, crafts choreographies and composes sounds, thus combining disciplines, media and technology into an oneiric, sensual, uncompromising aesthetics. He is internationally acknowledged for solo performances, stage productions and installations that defy genres, and where the body becomes a morphing language to speak critically of ritual, power and technology.
His latest series of artworks, I Am Your Body (2022-present), explores the relation between sound, AI and the embodied knowledge enshrined in d/Deaf and hard of hearing bodies. It does so through film, performance, creation of custom technologies and participatory research, reframing in the process the concepts of ‘prosthesis’ and ‘cyborg’.
Donnarumma holds a Ph.D. in performing arts, computing and body theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Recently, he was a Medienkunst Fellow at medienwerk.nrw and PACT Zollverein, Essen, and currently is an Associate Researcher at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, Reykjavik. Previously, he held research positions at the Akademie­ für Theater ­und Digitalität, Dortmund and at the Berlin University of the Arts in partnership with the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory. His writings embrace performance studies, body theory, aesthetics, human-computer interaction.