Matteo Holyoke Marangoni was born in Florence in 1982 in a mixed Italian and American family of artists. He studied music performance, sound engineering and cultural management, before receiving a masters diploma from the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague in 2011.

In his art practice he focuses on creating sensory experiences that connect sound, space, image and the body. His performances and installations present physical processes, sensory phenomena and machines in ways that are both musical and theatrical. He works combine DIY electronics, digital systems, robotics, architectural spaces, humans and other life forms. With these elements he composes poetic rituals addressing the space between subject and object, nature and technology, materiality and transcendence, the absurd, curiosity, invention and contemplation.