Redux A collaboration between Mark Cetilia and Joe Cantrell, Redux exists as an exercise in destruction and recombination. We examine existing technologies, break them down to their essential components, and re-assemble them into new entities. This practice brings new ideas to light about not only the nature of our technological objects, but also the structures that enable them to exist. In rethinking how systems can be perceived, new ways of using and combining them can be enabled. This includes natural ecosystems, technological infrastructure, and societal interconnections. Redux is the cut that cures — the mosaic that can only emerge when the original is shattered. Redux was awarded a multi-year grant in Emerging Fields from the Creative Capital Foundation for their monolithic sound installation Callspace, which uses cellular technologies to explore the audio potentials of unutilized, inaccessible space. Their work has been presented by The Dog Star Orchestra (Los Angeles, CA) and installed at the Société des arts technologiques (Montréal, QC), Machines with Magnets (Providence, RI), and SoundWalk (Long Beach, CA). They have performed at such venues as REDCAT / Disney Hall (Los Angeles, CA), XFest (Dorchester, MA), Black Lace (Providence, RI), Cold Spring Hollow (Belchertown, MA), and Wave Farm (Acra, NY). soundcloud | vimeo Joe Cantrell Joe Cantrell is a sound artist specializing in installations, compositions, and performances inspired by the consequences of technological objects and practices. His work examines the incessant acceleration of technology and media production, its ownership, and the waste it produces. In the rush to get the newest and shiniest things, the less new and less shiny are cast off: today's hot commodity is often tomorrow's garbage. In solidarity with these abandoned objects and the hands that put them together, Joe makes electronic feedback soundscapes using only discarded, obsolete and / or broken technology. It's a physical collaboration: the machines listen to themselves and act accordingly. Joe offers suggestions to them and they make sound together. Joe has presented his research, art and performances for audiences around the world, including the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the US, the International Computer Music Association, the New Instruments for Musical Expression conference, as well as artist residencies in New York, London, Beijing, and Rotterdam. joecantrell.net Mark Cetilia Mark Cetilia is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice exists at the nexus of analog and digital technologies. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems, Cetilia’s work is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. Over the past two decades, he has worked to develop idiomatic performance systems utilizing custom hardware and software, manifesting in a rich tapestry of sound and image. He is a member of the media art group Redux, recipients of a Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields, and the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1, described by The Grove Dictionary of American Music as “a complex cybernetic entity” whose “evolving, custom-built systems are as important an aspect of the duo’s achievements as their ever-innovative sound.” Cetilia’s work has been screened / installed at the ICA (London), Oboro (Montréal), O’ (Milan), MoBY (Bat Yam), SoundWalk (Long Beach), and R.K. Projects (Providence). He has performed widely at such venues as Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich), the Borealis Festival (Bergen), Café OTO (London), STEIM (Amsterdam), LACE (LA), Roulette (NYC), Goethe-Institut (Boston), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn), Menza Pri Koritu (Ljubljana), Uganda (Jerusalem), Sound of Mu (Oslo), and Electronic Church (Berlin). His sound works have been published by MORE Records, YDLMIER, Lacryphagy, Interval, Radical Matters, Dragon’s Eye, IYNGES, and the Estuary Ltd. imprint, which he runs with his partner Laura Cetilia. He lives and works in Providence, RI, where he teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. mark.cetilia.org