Books
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Variations on Van Gogh: Compositions for Small Motors and Robots, 2014, Book
Marcello Mercado Variations on Van Gogh: Compositions for Small Motors and Robots Variationen Van Gogh: Kompositionen für kleine Motoren und Roboter 25 × 20 cm, 82 pages 2014 Variations on Van Gogh: Compositions for Small Motors and Robots /Variationen Van Gogh: Kompositionen für kleine Motoren und Roboter (2014) extends Marcello Mercado’s…
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Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht, 2014
Marcello Mercado Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht 25.5 × 25.5 cm, 60 pages 2014 Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht (2014) is an artist book conceived as an operation of translation and erasure. The project takes as its point of departure the seven painted versions of Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh,…
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Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance, 2015, Book
Marcello Mercado Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance 25 × 20 cm, 240 pages 2015 Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance (2015) is a photographic book structured around a paradoxical form of self-representation: a body that appears only through its reflections, traces and mediations. Mercado constructs a visual field populated…
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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

