Bio
TheSAD is a project specialising in the creation and design of free/open source interactive audiovisual environments.
Its works take life in multiple forms such as audiovisual live performances, electronic/electroacoustic compositions, multimedia installations and interactive sceneries.
The understanding of the relations among nature, man and technology is the main focus in its artistic research which aims to highlight the communicativeness of human action through the use of physical computing technologies and self-designed data visualization systems.
Improvisation is the foundation of its live media compositions, a compulsive and original blend of diverse influences, from the no wave scene of the mid-1970’s in New York, through the earlier avant-garde and noise music, to 1980’s industrial experimentations in America, Italy and Germany.
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.
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Selected Audiovisual Performances / Concerts / Exhibitions
- “AHAcktitude”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.3″, CS Cantiere, Milan, 2009
- “Netaudio Festival”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.3″, Maria am Ostbahnof, Berlin, 2009
- “roBOT Festival”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.3″, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, 2009
- “Dundee Masters Show”, Interactive Installation “Mapping Motion”, Visual Research Center, Dundee, 2009
- “Venice Biennale”, Screening “Risveglio n.1, Venezia”, S.Servolo, Venice, 2009
- “3rd Pure Data Convention”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.3″, SESC Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, 2009
- “S-Block Festival”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.3″, Interventionsraum, Stuttgart, 2009
- “Vision’r Festival”, Audiovisual Multiscreen Concert “Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan” w/ Deftoo, Le Bellevilloise, Paris, 2009
- “NEMO Festival”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.2”, LeCube, Paris, 2009
- “Ausklang Festival”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.2”, Hoerbar, Hamburg, 2008
- “Cinesthesy AV Festival”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.2”, Centre Reberioux, Cretéil, 2008
- “LivePerformersMeeting”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.1”, Mutye, Xalapa, Veracruz, 2008
- “Summer Camp”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.1”, Laboral, Gijòn, 2008
- “Interacção”, Audiovisual Concert “Too Many Pests”, O Seculo, Lisbon, 2008
- “Seminario en Comunicaciòn Audiovisual”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.1”, S.Juan, Puerto Rico, 2008
- “Electrode Festival”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.1”, Forte Prenestino, Rome, 2008
- “Venice Film Festival”, Screening “Risveglio n.1, Venezia”, Lido, Venice, 2008
- “Max.Experimentelle”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.1”, Max.Strasse, Stüttgart, 2008
- “Vision’r Festival”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.1”, Mains d’Ouvre, Paris, 2008
- “Resistance Beat”, Music Concert, Cox18, Milan, 2008
- “Vision Sonic”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.1”, Les Pixel Transversaux, Paris, 2008
- “Cinetrip Vj Torna”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.1”, Merlin, Budapest, 2008
- “AV Encounter”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – v.1”, VisualBerlin Meeting, Berlin, 2008
- “Matting of Stones”, Live Score for Theater Piece and Music Concert, Open Air Museum of Pedvale, Riga, 2007
- “Eyes Fluttering in Kneecaps”, Mixed Media Interactive Theater Dance Piece, Riga, 2007
- “White Night”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – beta”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2007
- “Aetna/Visual Factory”, Live Visuals, Magazzini Generali, Catania, 2007
- “Vizual Contakt Live!”, Audiovisual Concert “Too Many Pests”, S.Lo, Basse Normandie, 2007
- “Messiah is Koming”, Music Concert, Cross Club, Prague, 2007
- “Venice Biennale”, Audiovisual Concert “I C::ntr::l Nature – beta”, CZ95, Venezia, 2006
- “Live!iXem”, Audiovisual Multi Screen Concert “Autoctono”, C.C. Candiani, Mestre, Venezia, 2005
Workshops / Presentations
- “Pure Data Convention”, Presentation of Self-Designed Software C::NTR::L, SESC, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2009
- Gotland University, Institute for Technology Art and New Media, Pure Data Workshop, Sweden, 2009
- “Carnival of e-Creativity”, Presentation of Self-Designed Software C::NTR::L, New Dehli, India, 2009
- Warszawa, Poland, Pure Data Workshop, 2009
- “Klab03″, Presentation of Self-Designed Software C::NTR::L, Pamplona, 2008
- “Klab03″, Pure Data Workshop, Pamplona, 2008
- Universidad de Puerto Rico, Audiovisual Communication Seminary, S.Juan, 2008
- Universidad de Puerto Rico, Presentation of Self-Designed Software C::NTR::L, S.Juan, 2008
- “Max.Experimentelle”, Presentation of Self-Designed Software C::NTR::L, Stuttgart, 2008
- “Cinetrip Vj Torna”, FLxER – Remote Vjing Workshop, Merlin, Budapest, 2008
- “Cinetrip Vj Torna”, Presentation of Self-Designed Software C::NTR::L, Merlin, Budapest, 2008
- “Vision’r Festival”, FLxER – Remote Vjing Workshop, Mains d’Ouvre, Paris, 2007
- “Oddstream Intercultural Exchange Program”, FLxER – Remote Vjing Workshop, Nijmegen, 2007
- “Aetna/Visual Factory”, FLxER – Remote Vjing Workshop, Catania, 2007
Publications
“Ausklang Live Recordings”, Free Digital, 2009, Format Noise
“Rules of Purification”, Free Digital, 2009, Smell the Stench
“Schizophrenic Spider”, The !S.A.D! Vs Kenji Siratori, Digital, 2008, Modr
“Vision Sonic #7”, Audiovisual work “I C::ntr::l Nature”, DVD, 2007, Explosive Tv/Les Pixel Transversaux
“Scattered”, Free Digital, 2007, Noise-Joy
“Home”, Free Digital, 2007, Sinewaves
“Vision Sonic #1”, Audiovisual work “Shut Down G8”, DVD, 2006, Explosive Tv/Les Pixel Transversaux
“Live!IxEM”, Audiovisual work “Autoctono”, DVD, 2005, IxEM
// – Compilation
“Vague Terrain 15: .microsound” curated by Kim Cascone, Free Digital, 2009, Vague Terrain
“Sinewaves 50”, VV.AA, Free Digital, 2008, Sinewaves
“Canto Notturno”, VV.AA, Free Digital, 2008, Sinewaves/Controfase
“Kraeka Compilation Issue #10”, VV.AA, CD, 2008, Digital Kranky
“Dejine:rec Compilation #1”, VV.AA, CD, 2007, Dejine:rec
