Das Kapital
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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 converge. This compilation includes: The on-coming…
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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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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,…
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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…