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Das Kapital — Unix Settings / DAT / Containers, 1999–2005
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) · SGI / Unix · Discreet Logic Flame, Flint & Inferno · DAT · 1999–2005 Technical environment These processes were developed at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) using professional Silicon Graphics (SGI) Unix workstations and Discreet Logic systems, including Flame, Flint, and Inferno. Their compositing and 3D environments made…
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Das Kapital — Returned, 2004
Postal packaging of the VHS version of Das Kapital upon its return to the studio in Germany from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, 2004. The image records the material condition of the package: shipping labels, barcodes, customs stamps, addresses, declared value, weight, dirt, creases, and the wear accumulated during transit. Scanned directly…
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Without Context, 2026
Without Context, 2026 Installation, four UV prints on white PVC mounted on stretchers. Without Context presents four measurements under identical visual conditions: 23,5 MB, 37,2 KB, 3 GB, and 173 qubits. The first three designate quantities of classical digital storage while withholding what is being stored. The fourth maintains the same grammatical…
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CAPITAL -> Case: Files deleted, 2000
Marcello Mercado CAPITAL -> Case: Files deleted (Das Kapital -> Fall: Dateien gelöscht) 1999–2000 | 3 min. 05 sec. | 4:3, Color, Stereo Following two and a half years of animation development for the initial phase of Capital, the generated visual data was subjected to systematic corruption using the erase-recovery protocols of Discrete Logic…
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das KAPITAL – Capital, 1999
DAS KAPITAL – CAPITAL, 1999 Video / video installation, variable duration, color and B/W, stereo Short version presented here: 9’59” Das Kapital began in 1999 with a question: could a text of critique of political economy be transformed or translated into images? The project developed over the following ten years as an open…
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Dos estados, Díptico, 2024
«Dos estados» (2024) es un díptico abstracto que articula su discurso plástico a través de la divergencia material y técnica entre dos lienzos superpuestos. La pieza superior, de 60 x 80 cm, se ha ejecutado combinando acrílico y pintura bicapa sobre tela. Esta técnica busca explorar la transparencia y la fluidez, aprovechando la capacidad…
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Vor sich / Ahead, 2026
Vor sich existiert zunächst als ein mittels künstlicher Intelligenz erzeugtes Bild: Eine Technologie der Gegenwart imaginiert ein materielles Werk, das mit einer Technologie des 20. Jahrhunderts realisiert ist und seinerseits die Schwierigkeit der Gegenwartskunst befragt, sich auf das einzulassen, was von der Geschichte noch nicht legitimiert worden ist. Die Vergangenheit liegt vor uns; die…
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On the Human Head as an Archival Form, Photography, 2024 – 2025
The series examines the human head as an archival structure, operating at the threshold between representation and material record. While the images retain the frontal conventions of portraiture, they suspend its expressive and identificatory functions. The head is treated as a site of accumulation: organic matter, time, and algorithmic processes converge on its surface…
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ANALOG ALGORITHMS, 1980-2026
What happens when an elementary action is repeated enough times to produce a form that no longer appears to have been directly drawn?
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Roboter malen mit, Kölner Stadt Anzeiger
Roboter malen mit Von Dorothee Ragg, 20.01.11 Kölner Stadt Anzeiger Der Künstler Marcello Mercado hat eine eigentümliche Methode für sich entdeckt: Seine Bilder werden teilweise von selbst gebauten Robotern gezeichnet. Zu sehen sind die Resultate in der Galerie Brühl…[+]
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THE ODYSSEY
THE ODYSSEY Intervention on the Gancedo meteorite, Campo del Cielo, Chaco Province, Argentina. Cardboard and black marker. 2017. The Gancedo meteorite is an iron meteorite weighing approximately 30 tons that was discovered in 2016 at Campo del Cielo in the Chaco Province. It is a fragment of an asteroid that reached Earth around…
