We're excited to welcome Marco Donnarumma, a new contributor into the fold of the Vague Terrain blog. Marco's main artistic project is TheSAD which focuses on the creation and design of free/open source interactive audiovisual environments. Marco will be using his expertise in FLOSS and acting as a beat reporter to cover this realm as well as tipping us off regarding related European festival and workshops. Welcome aboard Marco!
Marco has forwarded us the following biography to provide a little background information on his creative practice.
TheSAD has been conceived in 2006 by Marco Donnarumma (Italy, 1984) a young new media artist, teacher, composer, performer and bass player currently based in Edinburgh (UK). His works have been performed and screened at numerous international events including Venice Biennale (IT), Venice Film Festival (IT), NEMO Festival (FR), 3rd Pure Data Convention (BR), CeC (IND), Laboral (ES), Ausklang Festival (DE), Netaudio Festival (DE), Rome White Night 2008 (IT), Live!iXem (IT), Cinetrip (H). He works as FLOSS developer on new free interfaces for audiovisual expression. At the moment he is focused on the Pure Data graphical programming environment, which he used to develop C::NTR::L, a Human-Computer Interface exploiting physical computing technologies for live audiovisual performance.
In 2007 he gained a BA with honor in New Technologies for Arts at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, and since 2009 he holds a MA course in Sound Design for Sensitive Environment at LABA - Brescia Academy of Fine Arts, Italy as well as workshops and talks for european universities and venues. Since 2005 he is a researcher at FLxER.net an organizer for Live Performers Meeting, one of the broadest meeting dedicated to audiovisual live performances, new electronic sounds and live video.
