MARKO CICILIANI – BAROGUE – ABSOLUTE PLUNDER

BAROGUE is about the pursuit of purity and dominance that shaped the Baroque era and spawned patterns of thought that continue to shape our perception to this day. The Baroque was obsessed with order and ornament. It produced intellectual breakthroughs and artistic milestones, as well as profound exclusion and marginalization. New standardizations and categories not only structured knowledge and cognition, but they also segregated and erased, and they determined the limits of human imagination.

BAROGUE: the impetuous Baroque. Disorder, resistance, and the lust for power were essential aspects of the narcotic and affected beauty of this epoch. Marko Ciciliani’s BAROGUE is a three-part transmedia project that uses different perspectives to investigate how the pursuit of order in the 18th century shaped artistic practices, how the logic of scientific classification permeated music, and how these ideas continue to influence our thinking today.

Marko Ciciliani’s focus is on the composition of performance-based electronic music in audiovisual and transmedia contexts. Interactive video, light design and laser graphics, as well as virtual 3D spaces or narrative structures form integral elements in his compositions and installations. They have been performed in more than forty-five countries in Eurasia, Oceania and North and South America, and released on five CDs and in three multimedia books, among others. Ciciliani is a Professor of Computer Music Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz and has taught many courses and workshops, including at the Darmstadt International Summer Course.

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