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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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, 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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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…
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Galería Vanguardia, Bilbao: El Capital y sus genes
17.09.2009 – 17.10.2009 Marcello Mercado El Capital y sus genes Drawings, paintings and videoinstallation 2009 Galería Vanguardia, Alameda de Mazarredo, 19, Bilbao, Vizcaya, España
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Transcripts of Radio Programs : Stan Brakhage and Marcello Mercado
14.11.2016 Transcripts of Radio Programs : Stan Brakhage and Marcello Mercado Stan Brakhage The Test of Time: transcripts of radio programs with Stan Brakhage (pdf) 1982 Marcello Mercado Das Kapital: Opera Oratorium (pdf) 1999