New media and sonic artist, performer and teacher, Marco Donnarumma was born in Italy and is based in Edinburgh, UK. Weaving a thread around biomedia research, musical and theatrical performance, participatory practices and subversive coding, Marco looks at the collision of critical creativity with humanized technologies. He has performed and spoken in 28 countries worldwide at leading art events, specialized festivals and academic conferences. Has been artist in residence at Inspace (UK) and the National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance (DK). His work has been funded by the European Commission, Creative Scotland and the Danish Arts Council. In February 2012 Marco was awarded the first prize in the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, US) for the Xth Sense, a novel, biophysical interactive system named “the world's most innovative new musical instrument”.