Martina Raponi

Martina Raponi is a writer and artist researching noise and the unheard through writing, sound performance, expanded reality, interactive installations, and workshop activations. She holds a Bachelor in Humanities (University of Padua), a Master in Art Mediation (Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna), a Master in Fine Arts (Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam), and is a PhD candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam. Martina published a book on noise, “Strategie del Rumore. Interferenze tra Arte Filosofia e Underground” (Auditorium, 2015). She is co-founder of noiserr, an interdisciplinary research group focused on sound. With artist [M] Dudeck, Martina founded the Ansible Institute, a transitory speculative fiction laboratory. She is part of NRU (Noise Research Union) and is an art theory tutor at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Martina’s new book, "Psofotopias. Noise: Sounding Out the Unheard,” will be published by Auditorium in the summer of 2025.

Martina’s research has been presented in over 10 different countries. Her work, individual and collaborative, has been exhibited, performed, and presented at Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL); STRP Festival, Eindhoven (NL); Kaboom Festival, Utrecht (NL); WORM, Rotterdam (NL); MaMA, Rotterdam (NL); MONO, Rotterdam (NL); De School, Amsterdam (NL); Butcher's Tears, Amsterdam (NL); OCCII, Amsterdam (NL); Extrapool, Nijmegen (NL); Doornrosje, Nijmegen (NL); Researchers Office, Amsterdam (NL); Cafe OTO, London (UK);  SOOPA, Porto (PT); MAXXI Museum, L’Aquila (IT); Live Arts Week, Bologna (IT); Torino Film Industry, Torino (IT); Palazzo del Collegio Raffaello, Urbino (IT); aqb, Budapest (HU); Zentrum für Netzkunst, Berlin (DE); westwerk./Hamburg Maschine, Hamburg (DE), Struer Tracks, Struer (DK); Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico City (MEX), Newmarch Gallery, Adelaide (AUS).