Das Kapital
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Das Kapital — Unix Settings / DAT / Containers, 1999–2005
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) · SGI / Unix · Discreet Logic Flame, Flint & Inferno · DAT · 1999–2005 Technical environment These processes were developed at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) using professional Silicon Graphics (SGI) Unix workstations and Discreet Logic systems, including Flame, Flint, and Inferno. Their compositing and 3D environments made…
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Das Kapital — Returned, 2004
Postal packaging of the VHS version of Das Kapital upon its return to the studio in Germany from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, 2004. The image records the material condition of the package: shipping labels, barcodes, customs stamps, addresses, declared value, weight, dirt, creases, and the wear accumulated during transit. Scanned directly…
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CAPITAL -> Case: Files deleted, 2000
Marcello Mercado CAPITAL -> Case: Files deleted (Das Kapital -> Fall: Dateien gelöscht) 1999–2000 | 3 min. 05 sec. | 4:3, Color, Stereo Following two and a half years of animation development for the initial phase of Capital, the generated visual data was subjected to systematic corruption using the erase-recovery protocols of Discrete Logic…
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das KAPITAL – Capital, 1999
DAS KAPITAL – CAPITAL, 1999 Video / video installation, variable duration, color and B/W, stereo Short version presented here: 9’59” Das Kapital began in 1999 with a question: could a text of critique of political economy be transformed or translated into images? The project developed over the following ten years as an open…
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DAS KAPITAL: AUTONOMOUS CAPITAL
DAS KAPITAL: AUTONOMOUS CAPITAL — Artist Book, 2026 (PDF) To view the digital archive as intended, please configure your PDF viewer to: Two-Page View (or Facing Pages) DAS KAPITAL: Autonomous Capital Notes Toward a Natural History of Autonomous Capital For centuries, capital depended on human bodies to…
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Das Kapital – Archivo F.X., 2006
Attempts to translate Das Kapital into a moving image have been discussed in relation to Marcello Mercado’s work on the text. Since 1997, his video work has been connected to projects by Sergei Eisenstein, Guy Debord and Alexander Kluge, addressing the issue of representing economic theory…
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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…