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The Theory of Cultural Compression
Cultural Compression describes the transformation of complex cultural structures into minimal operational traces. The Theory of Cultural Compression Works and Experiments 1995–2025 Marcello Mercado Table of Contents Preface Cultural Compression Chapter I Compression as Method Chapter II Logic as Compost The Gödel Performances Chapter III Music as Glyph SUMMA – Notations Chapter…
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Dead Code Anatomies, 1990 – 2025
Marcello Mercado Dead Code Anatomies Installation 1990 – 2025 Dead Code Anatomies is a series of four algorithmic scripts that address the mechanisms by which physical violence is filtered, refracted, and suppressed by systems of procedural representation. Each work is based on a black and white analog photograph taken in 1990 using…
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HOS Image: Waiting as an algorithmic form: The image as a promise, 2025
Marcello Mercado HOS Image: Waiting as an algorithmic form: The image as a promise 2025 (German) (Spanish) 1. At the threshold between generation and expectation, this installation presents an image that does not yet exist. A recurring system message, trapped in its own…
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Das Kapital, Version 82: Exponential Capital, 2025
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 82: Exponential Capital Artist´s book 2025 In Das Kapital, Version 82: Exponential Capital, Marcello Mercado continues his decades-long deconstruction of Karl Marx’s seminal text by replacing its linguistic architecture with a sequence of ungraspable numerical scales. Each chapter and section of Capital, Volume I is stripped…
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Poly-Auto-Portraits 02
Marcello Mercado Poly-Auto-Portraits: Unstable Configurations of the Self Photographic Series 2025 In this new series, the concept of self–portraiture is expanded to the point that the boundaries of recognizable facial representation are dissolved. These poly-portraits are not merely superficial variations or controlled exercises in multiplication. Instead,…
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Das Kapital, Version 78, DELETEORIUM
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 78: DELETEORIUM (Deletion Space, Deletion Room) 2025 DELETEORIUM: Das Kapital, Version 78 is the speculative and dissident expansion of the project initiated in Das Kapital, Version 76. In this new version, three languages coexist in collision: the grapheme, the self-collapsing algorithm, and…
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Das Kapital, Version 76, Algorithms, 2025
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 76 Algorithms 2025 Since 1996, Marcello Mercado has been working on an ongoing and unconventional project of reinterpreting the first volume of Das Kapital by Karl Marx through various formats, including video art, performance art, bioart, net art, experimental photography, 3D rendering,…
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On the Production of Images and Sounds with AI, 2025
Marcello Mercado On the Production of Images and Sounds with AI 2025 This article examines the interaction between artificial intelligence (AI) and the production of images and sounds, proposing that AI’s fundamental theme is eternity—not as static preservation, but as a dynamic, self-generative process. The central (and only) theme…
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Autorretrato en estado de archivo
Marcello Mercado Autorretrato en estado de archivo 2025 Esta serie de autorretratos en blanco y negro está formada por escaneos tridimensionales de la cabeza del propio artista. Cada imagen ha sido reconstruida digitalmente mediante algoritmos de inteligencia artificial y tratada con técnicas visuales que oscilan entre la precisión anatómica…
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The algorithm, 2024
Marcello Mercado The Algorithm 2024 Process Art – New Media Art – Photography – AI The Algorithm is an exploration of the intersection between obsolete technologies, photographic processes, and the evolving nature of AI. It traces the transformation of a photographic recording apparatus over five decades, employing both historical reference…
