1. Transitory Artefacts, A Journey through Time and Media +
A selection of works produced between 2000 and 2025 exploring archives, algorithms, language and technological transformation across video, installation, photography, drawing and AI-generated media. The projects examine how information shifts between systems, media and temporalities.
Das Kapital, Video Installation, 1996 – 2010
2. Three Studies on Operational Images
Images are approached as operational surfaces: captured, transformed, transmitted and reconstructed through biological, algorithmic and media systems.
1. Marcello Mercado, Non Pixel: 33 Archaeologies of the War Signal , 2026
Non Pixel: 33 Archaeologies of the War Signal examines images after their collapse into data. Structured as a sequence of textual units, visual fragments and procedural operations, the project approaches war imagery not as representation but as a field of extraction, compression and reconstruction.
The work follows images as they migrate across sensors, storage systems, transmission protocols and algorithmic interpretation.
What remains is neither documentary evidence nor abstraction, but operational residue.
Image termination becomes image production.
Marcello Mercado, Non Pixel: 33 Archaeologies of the War Signal,2026
Signal decomposition · Compression · Sensor logic · Transmission · Operational image
2. Marcello Mercado,The Hypergaussian Wars, 2025
The Hypergaussian Wars investigates synthetic conflict environments generated through iterative visual procedures.
Rather than depicting battles, the project models unstable image territories in which bodies, signals and environments emerge from probabilistic accumulation and controlled distortion.
War appears as a condition of computation rather than an event.
The resulting images operate between cinematic language, simulation and failed reconstruction.
Marcello Mercado, The Hypergaussian Wars, 2025
Simulation · Conflict modelling · Procedural image · Computational landscape
3. Marcello Mercado, Variations Van Gogh, installation, 2014
Van Gogh Variations reconstructs a historical artwork as a distributed system rather than an original object.
Using aerial imaging, drone surveys, color extraction, robotic procedures, biological transformation and algorithmic translation, the project investigates whether an artwork can persist outside conservation through operational replication.
The project asks how an image survives after leaving the canvas.
Marcello Mercado, Variations Van Gogh, installation, 2014
Satellite imaging, drone surveying, color extraction and procedural reconstruction were used to transform Sunflowers into a distributed image system.
3. Transitory Artefacts: Archives
On the Human Head as an Archival Form, photo series, 2025 – 2026
Marrcello Mercado, Data Size (Diptych)
Inkjet on vinyl canvas, 60 × 90 cm (each)
2026
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Artist’s book, 280 pages
2012
Beginning with a hacked digital camera manual, the project transforms a technical document into an abstract visual artifact. Through corruption, fragmentation and algorithmic reconstruction, information is displaced from its instructional function and reconfigured as a system of geometric forms and unstable visual language.