Das Kapital
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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,…
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Das Kapital, Version 77, The Weight of the Weights
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 77: The Weight of the Weights An Archive in Transit 1- Channel Video Installation sound, color, 5 minutes 2025 Das Kapital, Version 77: The Weight of the Weights An Archive in Transit . In Das Kapital, Version 77: In The Weight of the…
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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,…
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On the Production of Images and Sounds with AI, 2025
Marcello Mercado On the Production of Images and Sounds with AI 2025 This article examines the interaction between artificial intelligence (AI) and the production of images and sounds, proposing that AI’s fundamental theme is eternity—not as static preservation, but as a dynamic, self-generative process. The central (and only) theme…
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transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus
Series of Ephemeral Video-Installations. 2010-2011.
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The Economy of Residues: Temporal Assemblages of Capital and Body
Marcello Mercado The Economy of Residues: Temporal Assemblages of Capital and Body 1996 . 2004 The Economy of Residues (2004) is an experimental performance-installation articulating biological material, cognitive labor, and technological obsolescence into an operative system. Through the controlled circulation of human urine collected during readings of Das Kapital, a transitional cash…
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Images become containers; containers become images: A Performance in Seven Movements, 2005
Images become containers; containers become images: A Performance in Seven Movements 2005 Conceptual FrameworkThis performance unfolds within a conceptual triangle: Max Weber’s reading of Calvinism as the ethical substrate of capitalism, John Calvin’s moral rehabilitation of profit through moderation and discipline, and Karl Marx’s critique of capital’s capacity to profit from catastrophe. The…
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Index – Generator, Performance, 2004
Marcello Mercado Index – Generator 24´color stereo Performance 2004 In this performative intervention, the artist read at a table located within the exposed foundations of the former Kölnischer Kunstverein—a void left by the demolition of a space once dedicated to critical art practices. The table, possibly a remnant of the original…
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Netart Performance, Das Kapital Glossolalia, August 9, 1999
Performed from a classroom at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln on 9 August 1999, this work belongs to the first generation of artistic experiments that understood the internet not as a site of representation, but as a space of transmission, delay, instability and bodily displacement. In the piece, Marcello Mercado streams himself reading…
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40 Years of Video Art Germany Part2: Record>Again!
27.11.2013 – 11.12.2013 [+] The project «40 Years of Video Art» was created by the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, in cooperation with the LUDWIG Forum in Aachen, Kunsthaus in Dresden, and the Edith-Rub-Haus of Media Arts in Oldenburg, with the support of the National Cultural Foundation.…
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ERSTE AUSFÜHRUNG, EIN PROJEKT VON PEDRO G. ROMERO
11.02.2012 -29.04.2012 ERSTE AUSFÜHRUNG, EIN PROJEKT VON PEDRO G. ROMERO ARCHIVO F.X. (pdf) EINE KARTE. DREI ÖKONOMIEN. FÜNF »ENTRADAS«. SIEBEN DISPOSITIVE. NEUN AUSSTELLUNGEN. WIRTSCHAFT, ÖKONOMIE, KONJUNKTUR. ARCHIVO F.X. // WÜRTTEMBERGISCHER KUNSTVEREIN STUTTGART
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RECORD>AGAIN! 40YEARSVIDEOART.DE – Part 2
02.02.2012 – 04.03.2012 RECORD>AGAIN! 40YEARSVIDEOART.DE – Part 2 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN RECORD>AGAIN! 40yearsvideoart.de – Part 2 is the second phase of a remarkable project 40jahrevideokunst.de, initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in 2006. Under the direction…