Redux A collaboration between Mark Cetilia and RS-232 (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 which speak to us of their lives as castaways, and of a bygone era, just out of reach. RS-232 Joe Cantrell is a multimedia artist specializing in sound art and installations 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 its ownership. By re-contextualizing cast off 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. Joe currently holds a BFA in Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence and Design from the California Institute of the Arts and is an MFA candidate in the Digital Arts and New Media program at the University of California Santa Cruz. His music, released under the moniker RS-232, has appeared on Simballrec's 45 Seconds of... compilation CD alongside such artists as Tujiko Noriko, Dntel, Kim Cascone and Jan Jelinek; an album of his minimal dub tracks entitled Up Like Stairs, Down Like Smoke was released by the Blank Artists label in 2006. He has performed in Los Angeles and throughout the West Coast at numerous venues including Spaceland, the Echo, and the CEAIT festival at REDCAT in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, sharing the stage with such esteemed artists as Devotchka, Jeremy Drake, Mem1, The Midnight Movies, Survival Research Labs, O.S.T., and The Secret Machines. more at 2-3-2.com >> Mark Cetilia 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 applications 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 feedback 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 duo Mem1, recipients of a Harvestworks artist residency in 2007. He received his Digital + Media MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design's Digital + Media department with honors in 2008, and is beginning his Ph.D studies in computer music and multimedia with Brown University's MEME program in 2010. Cetilia's work has been screened / installed at numerous venues including Laptopia (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Pixilerations (Providence, RI), the 1912 Gallery (Emory, VA) and SoundWalk (Long Beach, CA). He has performed at such venues as REDCAT (Disney Hall), the Orange County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and the Knitting Factory (LA). He is the co-curator of the internationally recognized Ctrl+Alt+Repeat performance series, which has featured performances by the Penderecki String Quartet, Frances-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 and USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. In 2009, they created a site-specific installation for the Museums of Bat Yam (Israel); their work has been screened and installed at venues including 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. more at mark.cetilia.org >>