A collaboration between Mark Cetilia and Joe Cantrell, Redux exists as an exercise in destruction and recombination. The nature of technological growth is not unlike evolution: industry creates, destroys and recombines technologies in a mad rush to provide consumers with the best-equipped tools for survival. But by marginalizing objects that are considered obsolete, consumers and industry alike ignore the potential capabilities these objects maintain. Redux circumvents this process by creating new life from the objects of the recent past, using capabilities of the present. Redux is the cut that cures. We give new life to dying technologies that speak to us of their lives as castaways, and of a bygone era, just out of reach. Redux has been recognized with a Harvestworks artist residency.

Mark Cetilia is a sound and media artist working at the nexus of analogue and digital technologies. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems in art, design and sound creation, Cetilia’s work is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. Over the past decade, he has worked to develop idiomatic performance systems utilizing custom hardware and software, manifesting in a rich tapestry of sound and image. Mark is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1 and the experimental media art group Redux. He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Computer Music and Multimedia at Brown University. He has taught classes and workshops on sound, video and programming at the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, TELIC Arts Exchange and Spullenmannen in the Netherlands. Cetilia’s work has been screened and installed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Ben-Ari Museum of Contemporary Art, R.K. Projects, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and SoundWalk. He has performed widely at venues such as Roulette in Brooklyn, REDCAT/Disney Hall, among others. His solo sound works have been published by Iynges, Anarchymoon and Quiet Design. Throughout their career, his group Mem1 has collaborated with a variety of artists including the Penderecki String Quartet, Steve Roden, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneider, Jeremy Drake and Stephen Vitiello. Together, Mem1 curates the experimental music series Ctrl+Alt+Repeat and the record label Estuary Ltd.

Joe Cantrell is a musician and multimedia artist specializing in sound art, installations, compositions and performances inspired by the nexus of technology, entropy and the access to same. Using sound as a point of entry, he creates interactive systems and performative works that call attention to the effects of decay and fixity on media, technology and ownership. By re-imagining the function and meaning of media formats and processes, he highlights the incessant cycle of novelty and obsolescence inherent in the technological and our interactions with the waste these systems produce. He has performed and installed in numerous venues, including the 2005 CEAIT festival at the REDCAT Theater at Disney Hall in Los Angeles and the 2012 festival of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States. Joe has also participated in residencies at Soundfjord in London, England and at the Inside – Out Art Museum in Beijing, China. Joe holds hold a BFA in Music Technology from the California Institute of the Arts, an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from UC Santa Cruz and is currently pursuing a PhD in Integrative Studies with a focus on Systems Inquiry at UC San Diego.