Das Kapital
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Das Kapital / Napster Search, 1999
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital / Napster / September 1999 This is one of the few surviving screenshots from a search for «Kapital« on Napster. The work no longer exists. Nor does the network that produced it. In September 1999, as part of my Das Kapital project, I searched for «Kapital» on Napster. The action…
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Taipei Hotel, Taiwan 2003
Marcello Mercado (m)2 · Taipei Hotel Taipei Hotel, Taiwan 2003 February 2003. Shortly after arriving in Taipei, a television broadcast related to the Taiwan Stock Exchange was recorded directly from the audio signal. The recording captures fragments of financial commentary, signal noise, and broadcast compression, preserving the temporal and technical conditions of its…
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das Kapital – soundtracks
Das Kapital _soundtracks by Marcello Mercado das Kapital _soundtracks Complete version on BANDCAMP Das Kapital brings together four soundtracks produced between 1999 and 2010 for a video series that reinterprets Karl Marx’s Capital through sound, image, and machine processes. The recordings were made inside a television post-production control room, using microphones positioned near equipment racks,…
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Das Kapital (Restrictions), 2005 – Artist’s book
Das Kapital (Restrictions), 2005 Artist’s book This artist’s book belongs to the series Das Kapital and operates as a material archive of minor gestures, residues, and peripheral economies. Composed of twenty plastic pocket-pages, the book holds broken golf tees collected from golf courses, used golf gloves, and domestic photographs of German…
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Das Kapital (Grocery Ledger), 1997
This grocery ledger, recovered in 1997 shortly before the definitive closure of the shop where the artist’s grandparents used to buy their provisions, constitutes one of the earliest foundational gestures of the long-term project Das Kapital. It does not originate from ownership of capital, but from participation in its everyday circulation. The pages…
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Capital Part 1 – version 2015
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital Teil 1 – Version 2015 Marcello Mercado Das Kapital Teil 1– Capital Part 1, version 2015 1 channel video-sound installation, 15 min. 58″ stereo 4:3 black/white and colour http://vimeo.com/133179369 Das Kapital unfolds as a long-term investigation into how political-economic critique can be translated into images—how theory…
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Selected Video Works 1994 – 2011
Marcello Mercado – Selected Video Works 1994–2011 presents a selection of video works, video installations, and DNA-based installations produced between 1994 and 2011. The compilation traces an evolving artistic inquiry into the intersections of body, code, and media systems, where biological materials and electronic images…
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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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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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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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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,…