FluCoMa Podcast #23: Marco Donnarumma

by Jacob Hart

Episode 23 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with artist, performer and theorist Marco Donnarumma.

Marco Donnarumma

The Podcast

Chapters

1. Introduction (0:0)

2. Getting into music and body performance (1:28)

3. The body (5:40)

4. Artificial intelligence (10:28)

5. Xth Sense (15:52)

6. Feature extraction (24:24)

7. Corpus Nil (31:22)

8. Open source (38:44)

9. Amygdala (46:11)

10. Collaborative work (55:25)

11. I am your body (1:4:10)

12. Corporate AI aesthetic (1:15:56)

Overview

In Episode 23 of the FluCoMa podcast we talk with Marco Donnarumma, an artist, stage director and theorist working in contemporary performance, new media art and interactive computer music. We shall take an overlook of his career, and focus on a number of his recent works. We shall notably hear about his work with amplification and feature extraction of bodily and muscular activity, and how he uses artificial intelligence and computational agents in his work, as well as his views of the recent emergence of corporate AI aesthetics.

Links

Here are the links to some of the things that were discussed during the podcast:

• Goldsmiths, University of London and Akademie für Theater und Digitalität.

• Thor Magnusson on the FluCoMa Podcast and the Intelligent Instruments Lab.

• Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

• Edinburgh College of Art and Martin Parker.

• FluCoMa Liminal Spaces gig:

• Corpus Nil with Baptiste Caramiaux.

• Xth Sense, Xth sense website.

• Marco’s PhD Configuring Corporeality: Performing Bodies, Vibrations and New Musical Instruments.

• Amygdala from the 7 configurations cycle:

• The Neurorobotics Research Laboratory.

• Forte.

• Ex Silens.

• Fluid plotter.

• The I am your body series and Niranthea.

• Tölvera and Anguilla.

• Against the Norm: Othering and Otherness in AI Aesthetics.

• Jack Armitage, Victor Shepardson and Jonathan Chaim Reus.

Profile photo credit: Ugo Dalla Porta