Marco Donnarumma

Marco Donnarumma is an artist, stage director, inventor and theorist. His oeuvre confronts normative body politics with uncompromising counter-narratives, where bodies are in tension between control and agency, presence and absence, grace and monstrosity. He is best known for using sound, AI, biosensors and robotics to turn the body into a site of resistance and transformation. He has presented his work in thirty-eight countries across Asia, Europe, and North and South America, and is the recipient of numerous accolades, most notably the Prix Ars Electronica’s Award of Distinction in Sound Art 2017, the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education’s Artist of the Science Year 2018, and a Hyundai ZER01NE Creator grant in 2024. Donnarumma was named a pioneer of performing arts with advanced technologies by the major national newspaper Der Standard, Austria. His writings are published in Frontiers in Computer Science, Computer Music Journal and Performance Research, among others. He runs the performance group Fronte Vacuo with Margherita Pevere.