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. For over 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 for their monumental sound installation Callspace, and the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1, described by the Oxford Press’ 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, UK), O’ (Milan, IT), Society for Arts and Technology (Montréal, QC), R.K. Projects (Providence, RI), and SoundWalk (Long Beach, CA). He has performed widely on festivals such as Borealis (Bergen, NO), SFEMF (San Francisco, CA), ICMC (Ljubljana, SI), Woodstockhausen (Bloomville, NY), and the Random Gear Festival (Providence, RI), and at venues such as Café OTO (London, UK), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich, CH), Höjden Studios (Stockholm, SE), STEIM (Amsterdam, NL), LACE (Los Angeles, CA), Roulette (New York, NY), Goethe-Institut (Boston, MA), Sound of Mu (Oslo, NO), and Electronic Church (Berlin, DE).

Throughout his career, he has collaborated with a variety of musicians and artists including Steve Roden, Stephen Vitiello, Attila Faravelli, Kadet Kuhne, and Eric Wong. His sound works have been published by MORE Records, YDLMIER, Lacryphagy, Interval Recordings, Radical Matters Editions, Dragon’s Eye Recordings, IYNGES, and the Estuary Ltd. imprint, which he runs with his partner Laura Cetilia. He lives and works in Providence, RI, where he teaches in the Digital + Media department and Sound program at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Music department at Brown University.