Marko Ciciliani is a composer, intermedia artist and performer. The focus of his artistic work lies in the composition of performative electronic music, mostly in audiovisual contexts. Interactive video, light design and laser graphics often play an integral part in his compositions, just as well as elements of ergodic or transmedia storytelling and speculative fabulation. The German magazine Neue Zeitschrift für Musik referred to him as “one of today’s most interesting composers in the field of electronic music and multimedia” (01/2020). In 2026 he was awarded the biannual nomination-based "Andrzej-Dobrowolski-Prize for Composition" of the land Styria - one of the highest accolades for composition in Austria.
 
Ciciliani's music has been performed in almost fifty countries across Eurasia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas. As a result of his interdisciplinary practice his work can be found in different genres. It has been programmed at festivals and concert series of electronic experimental music such as Experimental Intermedia, NYC, Club Transmediale, Berlin, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Ibrasotope, São Paolo, Kilele, Nairobi or Findars, Kuala Lumpur; by festivals for post-avantgarde music such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, Wien Modern, Ultraschall Berlin, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival or Maerzmusik; just as well as in the context of media art, as in the festival Ars Electronica, Glowing Globe, Rijeka or with iMAL, Brussels. 

His work has been released on five full-length CDs and four multimedia books featuring transdisciplinary and audiovisual works, a.o by labels as Mille Plateaux. In addition, his music can be found on more than a dozen compilation CDs. In the field of artistic research, Ciciliani has published several papers and articles, mainly in the field of audiovisual composition, a practice, that he termed “Music in the Expanded Field” in a widely discussed lecture of the same title, he gave in Darmstadt in 2016.
 
Ciciliani is Professor for Computer Music Composition and Sound Design at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He conceived and led the artistic research project GAPPP from 2016-21 in which with a team of artists/researchers he investigated the artistic potential of elements from computer games in the context of experimental audiovisual composition.

In 2009 Ciciliani spent 3 months in Los Angeles as artist-in-residence of the Villa-Aurora program. In 2014, 16 and 18 he taught as composition tutor at the “Summer Courses for Contemporary Music Darmstadt”. In 2017, 20 and 21 he was artistic director of the interdisciplinary workshop for young creators ChampdAction.LAbO, as well as of the festival TimeCanvas@DeSingel in Antwerp. From 2020-22 Ciciliani was artist-in-residence of the European funded EASTN-DC Network.