Author: marcod

Corpus Nil

Corpus Nil is a ritual of birth for a modified body, a tense and sensual choreography between a human performer and an artificially intelligent machine, exploding through sound and light. Part of the cycle.

Alia: Zu tài

Alia: Zǔ tài is a ritual of acceptance for three mongrel bodies. Through a reckless play of power and vulnerability, a group of humans and artificially intelligent prostheses build and destroy their relationships. Part of the cycle.

AI Ethics & Prosthetics

A critical thinking workshop on the radical potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to change human bodily experience. Through a collective critical discussion, we look at 30 years from now and envision what it could mean to live with prosthesis driven by autonomous algorithms.

Book Chapters

Book Chapters Nigredo: Configuring Human and Technological Bodies Experiencing the Unconventional – Science in Art. Eds. Theresa Schubert-Minski and Andrew Adamatzky. London: World Scientific, 2015 Fluid Flesh and Rhythmic Skin: On the Unfinished Bodies of Stelarc Meat, Metal and Code: Contestable Chimeras – Stelarc. Ed. Ryszard W. Kluszczyski. Gdansk: Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, 2015

Proceedings

Conference Proceedings Principles, Challenges and Future Directions of Physiological Computing for the Physical Performance of Digital Musical Instruments Marco Donnarumma and Atau Tanaka Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM), Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, Berlin, Germany, 2015 Notes on Bimodal Muscle Sensing for the Sonification of Indeterminate Motion Prooceedings of the International Workshop […]

Online

Online Articles Google New Breed: The Commodification of Digital Art and its Young Minds Furtherfield, London, 2014 Clean Digital Dancing, a Review of Moving Without a Body (Portanova, 2013, MIT Press) Mute Magazine, London, 2014 Vanguard: Experience the Performance of Marco Donnarumma Installation Magazine, Los Angeles, 2013 Origination and Metacreation: A Conversation with Ben Bogart […]

Journals

Journal Articles Ominous: Playfulness and Emergence in a Performance for Biophysical Music Body, Space and Technology Journal, 14, Brunel University, 2015 Understanding Gesture Expressivity through Muscle Sensing Baptiste Caramiaux, Marco Donnarumma, and Atau Tanaka. Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions (ToCHI), 21(6), 2015. ACM New York, NY, USA, DOI: 10.1145/2687922 Incarnated Sound in Music for Flesh II. […]

Book Chapters

Book Chapters Nigredo: Configuring Human and Technological Bodies Experiencing the Unconventional – Science in Art. Eds. Theresa Schubert-Minski and Andrew Adamatzky. London: World Scientific, 2015 Fluid Flesh and Rhythmic Skin: On the Unfinished Bodies of Stelarc Meat, Metal and Code: Contestable Chimeras – Stelarc. Ed. Ryszard W. Kluszczyski. Gdansk: Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, 2015

Editor

Editor for Biophysical Music, Sound and Video Anthology Computer Music Journal, 39:4, MIT Press, 2015 Biotechnological Performance Practice eContact!, 14.2, Canadian Electroacoustic Community, 2012

Critics

“Marco represents the potential and vitality of the new generation of artists.” Dajuin Yao, Artist and Curator, RPM: Sound Art China “Technical, compelling and powerful.” Teddy Lo, Artist and Curator, US “Donnarumma pushes boundaries.” Installation Mag, US “Marco Donnarumma has taken man-machine interfacing one step further.” Dr. Ahmed Morsy, Deputy Editor in Chief, IEEE Pulse […]

Biophysical Music

Biophysical Music This is a term originally coined by Marco Donnarumma in 2011 in various writings and mailing list conversations. With this term, one refers to live music pieces based on a combination of physiological technology and markedly physical or gestural performance. In these kinds of works, the physical and physiological properties of the performers’ […]

PhD Thesis

PhD Thesis In early 2016, Donnarumma has successfully defended his practice-based PhD thesis in Arts and Computational Technology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He worked under the supervision of Prof. Atau Tanaka (Dpt. of Computing) and Prof. Matthew Fuller (Center for Cultural Studies). The thesis is entitled Configuring Corporeality: Performing Bodies, Vibrations and New Musical […]

Themes

Research Themes Marco’s research concentrates on corporeality and computation for sound performance and performance art. Corporeality refers to physiological, phenomenological and cultural basis of embodied practices. Marco has a multidimensional approach to research which brings together sound art, cultural and philosophical studies of the body and human-computer interaction. His research extends across three areas of studies. […]

Spektrum | Scope Session Special

Also on stage Derek Holzer (DE). SPEKTRUM is a space of convergence for cultural communities and transdisciplinary groups emerging and operating in and off Berlin. The project aims to bring confrontation, open knowledge and a platforms for idealisation, realisation and presentation of technology-based artworks, science-focused events and futuristic utopias based on the principle “do-it-together-with-others”. Scope […]

Body Series

The Body Series (2010-2015) is a cluster of performances and installations focused on the interaction between bodies, sounds and machines. The series began in 2010 when Donnarumma created the wearable musical instrument . The instrument amplifies sounds from heart, blood and muscles of a performer’s body and uses them to create music, video or light […]

Nemo Biennale + IRCAM Live

– Performing a solo concert for biophysical music. The concert will include two pieces, and . Also on stage Holly Herndon (US) and Stefan Senf (DE).

Being Human Festival | Sounds that move us

– Demoing the new XTH Sense, wireless biowearable musical instrument Come and explore the ‘sounds that move us’ in this special evening blending multisensory science and philosophy with talks by musicians and researchers, demonstrations of sonic illusions, digital mapping, and even ‘sonic shoes’. Being Human is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities. From […]

Maintenant Festival

– Performing a solo concert for biophysical music. The concert will include two pieces, and . More TBA.

Musikprotokoll

– Showing , a private experience of altered self-perception, for surround sound, subwoofers, light and high-power infrasound acoustic tranducers. Musikprotokoll is Austria’s Festival Platform for Contemporary and Experimental Music. It is organised annually by ORF (Austrian Broadcasting). Functioning as a kind of laboratory, musikprotokoll invites the audience to embark on an exploratory journey to discover […]

TodaysArt | 4DSOUND Circadian

– Premiere of “0:Infinity” a new participative work for networked human bodies, biophysical music, light and spatial sound. Premiering 24-27th of September in the Electriciteitsfabriek at TodaysArt 2015, the festival for contemporary art and music in The Hague, Netherlands, 4DSOUND: Circadian presents interdisciplinary work from a diverse set of artists – all created exclusively with […]

NIME | New Interfaces for Musical Expression

– Preview of Corpus Nil, a body art performance for surround sound, reactive lights and biophysical media. The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) gathers, since 2001, researchers and musicians from all over the world to share their knowledge and late-breaking work on new musical interface design.