Biography
Mark Cetilia is a media artist who is interested in exploring control systems that are intuitive as well as experimental in nature. A large portion of his work is devoted to creating custom hardware and software for live audio / visual performance. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems in art, design, and sound creation, Cetilia's work frequently employs such strategies as loops and genetic algorithms, and is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. Mark is a member of the experimental media art group Redux, recipients of a 2006 Creative Capital grant for their Callspace project and the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1, recipients of a 2008 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Project Grant Award. He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design's Digital + Media department with honors in 2008, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D in computer music and multimedia with Brown University's MEME program. Cetilia’s work has been screened / installed at such galleries and festivals as Laptopia (Tel-Aviv, Israel), the Sol Koffler gallery (Providence, RI), the Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL) and SoundWalk (Long Beach, CA). He has performed widely at venues including REDCAT (Disney Hall), the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Issue Project Room (NYC) and Electronic Church (Berlin). He is the co-curator of the Ctrl+Alt+Repeat concert series, which has featured performances by the Penderecki String Quartet, s-Marie Uitti, Steve Roden, Damion Romero and Svarte Greiner. With his group Mem1, he has taken part in residencies at STEIM and Kunstenaarslogies in the Netherlands, Harvestworks in New York, and USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. In 2009, they created a site-specific installation for the Museums of Bat Yam (Israel); their collaborative work with media artists Kadet Kuhne and Liora Belford have been screened and installed at such venues as the Sundance Film Festival, Fringe Exhibitions (Los Angeles), and the Hordaland Kunstsenter (Bergen). Mem1's third album, +1, consisting of collaborations between Mem1 and artists such as Steve Roden, Jan Jelenik, and Frank Bretschneider, was released in 2009 by Interval Recordings. For more information, visit http://mark.cetilia.org/
