Marco Donnarumma Studio

Marco Donnarumma creates technological bodies to navigate the boundaries of experience. Born hearing and then become late-deafened, he makes work that, through resonating aesthetic encounters, challenges how powers of society regulate the human body.

Owing to a hybrid identity as a performer, sound artist, stage director, inventor, and theorist, he blends contemporary performance, new media art, and interactive computer music into performances, installations, and films that “defy categorization” (Jury Prix Ars Electronica).

Rooted in performance art, he takes the discipline into strange encounters with sound, machines, light and movement to create a sensual, uncompromising aesthetic. His handcrafted inventions, such as AI-driven robotic prosthesis and biophysical musical instruments, explore visceral forms of interaction on stage and create music from the sounds of a performer’s body.

He is considered a pioneer in the field of emerging technology and performing arts (Der Standard), and his repertoire, often created in dialogue with science and technology labs, toured 36 countries across theater and dance, media art, contemporary music, and contemporary art.

Donnarumma received numerous awards and was named Artist of the Science Year 2018 by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education. He holds a Ph.D. in performing arts, computing, and body theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. His writings integrate aesthetics, feminist studies, and critical theory with scientific research.