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 / 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 (2004) 24 min | Color, Stereo Performance In 2004, I carried out Index – Generator inside the exposed foundation pit of the former Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne. The building had been demolished, leaving an open excavation several meters below ground level. Sitting at a table at the bottom…
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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.…