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Aging Against the Update, Temporal Divergence, Book, 2026
Aging Against the Update, Temporal Divergence — Artist Book, 2026 (PDF) Essay 33 chapters 33 conceptual algorithms 2026 To view the digital archive as intended, please configure your PDF viewer to: Two-Page View (or Facing Pages) For centuries, humans and their tools aged…
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Flusser Studies 41 – May 2026 / Special Issue: Vilém Flusser and Artificial Intelligence
Über den menschlichen Kopf als archivische Form The series examines the human head as an archival structure operating at the threshold between representation and material register. Although the images maintain the frontal conventions of portraiture, they suspend its expressive and identificatory functions. The head is treated as a site of accumulation: organic…
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DAS KAPITAL: AUTONOMOUS CAPITAL
DAS KAPITAL: AUTONOMOUS CAPITAL — Artist Book, 2026 (PDF) To view the digital archive as intended, please configure your PDF viewer to: Two-Page View (or Facing Pages) DAS KAPITAL: Autonomous Capital Notes Toward a Natural History of Autonomous Capital For centuries, capital depended on human bodies to…
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COCÓ, Book, 2026
COCÓ — Artist Book, 2026 (PDF) Since the early 1990s, Marcello Mercado’s artistic practice has been characterised by processes of transduction between different systems of representation. Texts, archives, organisms, biological sequences and images are displaced across different media and scales, resulting in configurations that no longer…
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Systems, Images and Temporalities
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…
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AMARILLO
AMARILLO — Artist Book, 2026 (PDF) AMARILLO is an observational system organized around a continuous chromatic field. Fragments, structures and indeterminate forms appear in varying states of visibility. The images register incomplete transformations, unstable configurations and provisional morphologies. Forms emerge, disperse, reappear and remain unresolved. No taxonomy…
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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…
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ArteCo 2026
MARCELLO MERCADOArteCo 2026 · Galería Corteza Marcello MercadoDurante la Noche, 2025 Fotografía realizada con cámara nocturna e impresa sobre lona vinílica.Intervención con tira de neón blanco sobre estructura de metal pintada. 190 × 50 × 60 cm Instalación fotográficaObra única
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The Torment Zone
The Torment Zone (La Region de la Torture) (Die Region der Unruhe) (La Región del Tormento) Color/Mono English subtitles Year of production: 1992 Format: Betacam SP PAL Country of Origin: Argentina Running Time: 8 min. 40 sec. Drawings: Daniel González Animation: Marcello Mercado Chorus: Coro de la…
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The Warm Place
The Warm Place (El Lugar Tibio) is an experimental video by Argentine artist Marcello Mercado. Made from fragments of video, drawings, photographs, sound, text, hand-painted slides, and digital image processing, the piece explores the instability of the body under conditions of historical violence, technological mediation, and failed memory. …
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Image as Failed System
Works in which drawings, image files, digital errors and material surfaces operate as unstable systems of registration. Marcello Mercado, Untitled (Diptych)Inkjet print on white vinyl canvas, 60 × 90 cmCollage with fabric remnants, adhesive and paper on canvas, 30 × 40 cm2026 …
