Bioart
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OPEN GENOME ACTIONS
Bio-Performances 2000–2012 OPEN GENOME ACTIONS is a series of bio-performances in which fragments of the artist’s DNA are extracted, dispersed and transmitted across natural and technological environments. 1. DNA for Free, 2014 2. My DNA Belongs to Me, 2014 3. DNA Under Weight, 2004 4. Capital Circulation, 2000 5. The…
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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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Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies,
„Synthetic genomic readings on breathing worms“ or “Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies” Videoinstallation x 2 screens or 2 monitors Do not disturb signs x 2 Synthetic Genomic Readings on Breathing WormsorMaking Consistent Volatile Ideas by Broadcasting Bio-Information through Plants, DNA, Worms and Radio Frequencies…
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Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015
In Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, the book is presented as a physical apparatus in which biological processes, algorithmic operations and sensory translations converge to form a tangible sequence that defies the neutrality of the archive. Each page acts as a threshold between systems of inscription. Genetic sequences…
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FFFF FFFS FFSS SSSS The pluripotent, 2005
https://archive.org/details/FfffFffsFfssSsssThePluripotent FFFF FFFS FFSS SSSS The pluripotent, 2005 electronic music, extreme noises, soundart, microsound, techno, noise, microsound, loop, industrial, game, experimental FFFF FFFS FFSS SSSS — The Pluripotent is a digital opera conceived at the moment when biotechnological promise, institutional authority, and data production converged in a state of near-total…
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Das Kapital: Bell, Marx and the cycles of absorption, 2005
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital: Bell, Marx and the cycles of absorption Performance/ Installation 2005 The performance, which took place in 2005 as part of the Das Kapital series, unfolded in two phases. First came the installation phase, which involved the material decomposition of Daniel Bell’s The…
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Fuego
Marcello Mercado Fuego (Fire/Feuer) 3-Channel Videoinstallation 3 Minuten loop 2025 Fuego (Fire) is a videoinstallation composed of three monitors arranged at an angle. Fixed cameras record brick kilns where quebracho colorado undergoes a slow combustion process. Five days of fire. Twenty-five days sealed. Smoke rises continuously. The scene remains…
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Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies
Marcello Mercado Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, 2007 Bio-Performance / Bio-Installation, 2007 In Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, Marcello Mercado crafts a meditation on mortality, memory, and the biological archive, unfolding across…
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transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus
Series of Ephemeral Video-Installations. 2010-2011.
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A DNA Artifact , 2007
A DNA Artifact Running time: 5 days Performance, 2007 . In 2007, the artist carried out a three-part performative action across distinct European geographies—Munich, Extremadura, and Niederzissen—combining field observation, basic biotechnology, and cultural reflection. Act I began at the Ostfriedhof cemetery in Munich, at the grave of filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A…
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Gödel Devices and Epistemic Apparatuses
Gödel Devices and Epistemic Apparatuses: A Performative Construction (Geneva, 2006) In 2006, a performative apparatus was activated within a hotel room in Geneva—an environment operating simultaneously as a spatial container and a neutralized architecture of regulation. The performance constructed a field of epistemic operations based on the formal structure of Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness…
