Installations
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ERODE, 2026
ERODE (2025–ongoing) ERODE translates human memory loss into signal. Drawings produced by Alzheimer patients are converted into algorithms, then into microbial activity, and finally into radio transmission. ERODE is a system of progressive translation. ERODE — Information Translation Protocol Human drawing (Alzheimer patient) → Algorithmic transcription → Microbial activity…
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Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies,
„Synthetic genomic readings on breathing worms“ or “Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies” Videoinstallation x 2 screens or 2 monitors Do not disturb signs x 2 Synthetic Genomic Readings on Breathing WormsorMaking Consistent Volatile Ideas by Broadcasting Bio-Information through Plants, DNA, Worms and Radio Frequencies…
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Vilém Flusser and Marshall McLuhan /Aviation Alphabet, 2010
Victor, India, Lima, Echo, Mike, Foxtrot, Lima, Uniform, Sierra, Sierra, Echo, Romeo, Mike, Alpha, Romeo, Sierra, Hotel, Alpha, Lima, Lima, Mike, Charlie, Lima, Uniform, Hotel, Alpha, November. (Vilém Flusser and Marshall McLuhan, Aviation Alphabet). 2010 Two unique pieces, 2 black-and-white QR code puzzle books, Each 40 cm x 28.5 cm. Each puzzle has 120…
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Text as Territory (1998)
Text as Territory (1998) In Text as Territory, a series of graphic works produced in 1998, language ceases to function as a vehicle of transmission and instead becomes a contested spatial field. Fragments in Latin from Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations and newspaper reports drawn from the Georgian press—originating in a…
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Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015
In Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, the book is presented as a physical apparatus in which biological processes, algorithmic operations and sensory translations converge to form a tangible sequence that defies the neutrality of the archive. Each page acts as a threshold between systems of inscription. Genetic sequences…
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Between Bodies and Circuits 2010–2025
Marcello Mercado – Between Bodies and Circuits This selection brings together works produced between 2010 and 2025 that explore the translation between biological, algorithmic and visual systems. From bio-performative gestures to post-photographic reconstructions and algorithmic archives, these works examine the ways technology transforms perception and embodiment. Each piece functions as a node in a…
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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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Fuego
Marcello Mercado Fuego (Fire/Feuer) 3-Channel Videoinstallation 3 Minuten loop 2025 Fuego (Fire) is a videoinstallation composed of three monitors arranged at an angle. Fixed cameras record brick kilns where quebracho colorado undergoes a slow combustion process. Five days of fire. Twenty-five days sealed. Smoke rises continuously. The scene remains…
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Formula Van Gogh
Marcello Mercado Formula Van Gogh Speculative Formula – Essay 2025 Consider the following expression: Here, V(t) represents the “sales function” of Vincent van Gogh across time: before his birth (), through his life, and long after his death (+). The integral equaling −1 formalizes a paradox: in his…
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Live Streamings from Dolmens: DNA-Performance-Installation-Soundart
Marcello Mercado Live Streamings from Dolmens, 2011 DNA-Performance-Installation-Soundart Flintinge, Denmark — 19/06/11 14:17 PM Live Streamings from Dolmens unfolds as a quiet yet potent act of temporal entanglement. Beneath the ancient stones of Flintinge—dolmens whose origins drift somewhere between archaeology and speculation—the artist instigates a dialogue between…
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Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015
THE DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA GROUP The transdisciplinary DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA GROUP consists of project leaders Katharina Gsöllpointner (media theoretician), Ruth Schnell (artist), Romana Schuler (art historian) and artists Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel. During the research process invited artists and scientists will participate as special guests in the context of certain topics and/or project phases.…
