Books
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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,…
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Das Kapital 80, AI: The Political Economy of Algorithmic Moderation
Marcello Mercado Capital, Version 80 AI: The Political Economy of Algorithmic Moderation 2025 Das Kapital IA is a work that translates the critical structure of Karl Marx’s Capital into the contemporary context of generative artificial intelligence. Rather than merely reproducing the sequence of chapters…
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The Ulysses Syndrome in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Marcello Mercado The Ulysses Syndrome in the Age of Artificial Intelligence An Individual Strategy in Response to Algorithmic Seduction 2025 The expansion of generative artificial intelligences has established a new technical regime of production, perception, and decision-making. In this context, the concept of the Ulysses syndrome in the age of AI…
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The First Fifteen: 2000s in Photographs
Marcello Mercado The First Fifteen: 2000s in Photographs Photography 2018 At the turn of the millennium, photography underwent a profound ontological transformation. Amidst the remnants of analog processes and the accelerating digitization of images, artists found themselves navigating novel regimes of vision, materiality, and…
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Marcello Mercado, Mutter (Mother), Artist´s book, genetic cartoon, 2000
Marcello Mercado Mutter (Mother) genetic cartoon Artist´s book 2000
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Marcello Mercado, HyperSammlung, Artist´s book, 22 pages, 2012
Marcello Mercado HyperSammlung Artist´s book, 22 pages 2012
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Marcello Mercado, Fallen, Submerged, Devoured, Artist´s book, 152 pages, 2017
Marcello Mercado Fallen, Submerged, Devoured Artist´s book, 152 pages 2017
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Marcello Mercado, BRK 6s7gz sghxgcgcw ehwgd, Artist´s book, 280 pages, 2012 – 2023
Marcello Mercado BRK 6s7gz sghxgcgcw ehwgd Artist´s book, 280 pages 2012 – 2023
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Marcello Mercado, Licht Pentimento, 98 pages, Artist´s book, 2004
Marcello Mercado Licht Pentimento Artist´s book, 98 pages 2004 Licht Pentimento (2004) occupies a foundational position within Marcello Mercado’s practice. Conceived as an artist’s book situated at the intersection of photography, softart, and early digital experimentation, the project does not approach glitch as a visual effect, but rather as a…
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Marcello Mercado, FHLR, 42 pages, artist´s book, 2010
Marcello Mercado FHLR 42 pages, artist´s book 2010 This experimental artist’s book (2010) operates at the intersection of software failure, visual noise and procedural abstraction. Rather than treating glitch as an aesthetic effect, the work approaches error as a structural condition: a state in which…
