In Dialogue

  • ‘Pour donner naissance à un nouvel être chorégraphique’

    by Louis Seiller, Mouvement

    23 April 2018

    La thématique de l’enfantement traverse votre travail, d’où vous vient cet intérêt?

    “L’enfantement me fascine car je vois la naissance comme une tabula rasa, un point zéro où rien n’existe et où tout peut arriver. Et qu’est-ce que la naissance, sinon le rituel primitif?”

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  • ‘We humans are not any more important than any other creature’

    by Thomas Venker, Kaput Magazin

    24 January 2018

    It seemed that all that matters is happening on and in your body: how important is the environment for your performances, the audience as much as the settings?

    “I refer to my pieces as “experiences” as I hope they reach the audience in a visceral way. To that end I work with sound in particular ways, dealing with psycoacoustic as well as vibrationals phenomena in space, such as standing waves or beating effects.”

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  • ‘Corpus Nil: A Performance by Man and Artificial Intelligence’

    by Vanessa Graf, Prix Ars Electronica

    4 September 2017

    You say that the human body in the performance is ‘defiled’ by algorithms – what do you mean by that?

    “Defiling means to damage the purity of something, to profane something sacred. At the core of our Euro-American culture is the idea of the human body as a pure, whole entity isolated and independent from any other form of life.”

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  • ‘Hybrid Aesthetics: The mixture of Body, Technology And Sound’

    by 網癮少女, Digilog.tw

    13 March 2017

    “Have you ever seen baby horses when they’re just born? It’s really fascinating because they have these massive legs, which are too big for their tiny bodies… and then they learn how to stand up and run in just few hours after their birth. You see, their legs are so disproportionately big in respect to the rest of their bodies.”

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  • The Sentient Body

    by Marta Martina, Zoom on Fashion Trends #64

    1 July 2019

    But anthropomorphism needs to be re-calibrated. One proposal comes from Marco Donnarumma, who uses sentient prosthetics to establish a dialogue with AI that is also a journey from the body to the machine and not the contrary; performing bodies, sounds and machines for a chemical/alchemical transformation of our body.

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  • Amygdala, AI-led body politics

    by Aurelio Cianciotta, Neural

    24 August 2018

    What kind of body politics can be meaningfully developed while we live in a world where the representation of our bodies is always going to be radically manipulated on our screens by artificial intelligence algorithms developed by the software industry?

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  • Art-ificial Intelligence

    by Madhvi Ramani, The Wilson Quarterly

    24 May 2018

    Marco Donnarumma’s work demonstrates how we are inherently connected to our technology. It encompasses the contradictions of AI, referring to the technology’s use for social categorization, while also showing how it can enable us to expand and transgress the boundaries of ourselves.

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  • The sound of the absent body

    by Arianna Forte, Il Muro Mag

    1 April 2015

    The entirety of Donnarumma’s work is aimed at spreading out the visceral, the silent power that lies in the physiological carnality, in the instincts’ voracity and in the deep inscrutability of our body.

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  • Mechanisms of Augmentation in Proprioceptive Media Art

    Ksenia Fedorova, M/C Journal 16 (6)

    1 December 2013

    I am particularly interested in how the awareness of the self (grounded in the felt relationality of our body parts) is most significantly activated at the moments of disturbance of balance, in situations of perplexity and disorientation. Projects by Marco Donnarumma, Sean Montgomery, and other artists working with biofeedback aesthetically validate and instantiate current research about neuro-plasticity, with technologically mediated sensory augmentation as one catalyst of this process.

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  • “Überflüssige Menschheit? Posthuman Art”

    ARTE Tracks

    10 May 2019

    Längst kein Science-Fiction mehr. Die fortschreitende Technik und die künstliche Intelligenz machen den Menschen überflüssig. Und dann? Die Kunst geht wieder einmal vorneweg und zeigt Visionen einer Welt des Posthumanismus.

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  • “Wandlungen: Abgleiten in die Stille”

    by Theresa Beyer, Radio SRF 2 Kultur

    1 February 2019

    Mensch und Maschine, Macht und Ohnmacht – Themen des Klangkünstlers Marco Donnarumma. Sein Interesse kommt nicht von ungefähr: Ohne Technologie würde der 35-Jährige sehr viel schlechter hören. Die Geschichte von einem, der mittendrin steckt in einer Wandlung – an deren Ende womöglich Taubheit steht.

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  • “Der Musik-Cyborg I: Der Körper in der Elektronischen Musik”

    by Theresa Beyer, Radio SRF 2 Kultur

    9 May 2018

    Wenn Musikerinnen und Musiker elektronische Musik live spielen, schauen sie auf Screens, drehen an Reglern und drücken Tasten. Für das Publikum ist das nicht sonderlich aufregend. Ganz anders wirkt das, wenn der Körper die elektronischen Klänge erzeugt: dank Sensoren und künstlicher Intelligenz.

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  • “Mon corps est mon instrument”

    ARTE Tracks

    31 March 2014

    Quand le créateur sonore Marco Donnarumma sort ses muscles, ça n’a rien à voir avec du bodybuilding. Il amplifie pour ainsi dire les impulsions que produisent naturellement ses muscles et les transforme en sons. Marco est l’inventeur du « Xth Sense », un instrument de musique unique en son genre.

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