Marcello Mercado

Media

  • Poly-Auto-Portraits: Drifting Selves Between Scanners, Color, and Algorithms

    Poly-Auto-Portraits: Drifting Selves Between Scanners, Color, and Algorithms

    Self portraits, 2025.

  • Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera

    Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera

        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.…

  • Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies

    Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies

        Marcello Mercado Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, 2007   Bio-Performance / Bio-Installation, 2007     In Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, Marcello Mercado crafts a meditation on mortality, memory, and the biological archive, unfolding across…

  • transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus

    transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus

    Series of Ephemeral Video-Installations. 2010-2011.

  • Dead Code Anatomies

    Dead Code Anatomies

      Marcello Mercado Dead Code Anatomies Installation 1990 – 2025     Dead Code Anatomies is a series of four algorithmic scripts that address the mechanisms by which physical violence is filtered, refracted, and suppressed by systems of procedural representation. Each work is based on a black and white analog photograph taken in 1990 using…

  • The algorithm, 2024, Process art – New media art – AI

    The algorithm, 2024, Process art – New media art – AI

          Marcello Mercado The Algorithm 2024 Process Art – New Media Art – Photography – AI     The Algorithm is an exploration of the intersection between obsolete technologies, photographic processes, and the evolving nature of AI. It traces the transformation of a photographic recording apparatus over five decades, employing both historical reference…

  • Sense and Sensitivity I

    Sense and Sensitivity I

      16.09.2021 – 09.10.2021   Marcello Mercado Sense and Sensitivity I       Bernet Bertram | Berlin Goethestraße 2–3 D 10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg Entrance B, across the Courtyard Aufgang B, über den Hof, Hochparterre   Öffnungszeiten: Mittwoch bis Freitag, 14 ‑18 Uhr Sonnabend, 11–16 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung.   Phone +49 (0)30 32 30 11…

  • Connections and Gaps between Artists’ and Institutions’ New Media Preservation Efforts

    Connections and Gaps between Artists’ and Institutions’ New Media Preservation Efforts

    02.02.2021     Connections and Gaps between Artists’ and Institutions’ New Media Preservation Efforts   by Qinyue Liu       Media art, which frequently involves data, software, or electronic devices, continues to face the challenge of technological obsolescence. In a previous article, this research project reviewed example models and strategies that media artists have…

  • Procesar Destruir Representar Archivar [Process Destruct Represent Archive]

    Procesar Destruir Representar Archivar [Process Destruct Represent Archive]

    02.07.2020 – 03.09.2020   Marcello Mercado 2020   Procesar Destruir Representar Archivar [Process Destruct Represent Archive]   Monitor 1: Facundo traducido [Translated Facundo], 5’ Monitor 2: Martín Fierro traducido [Translated Martín Fierro], 5’ The two milestones of national literature, Facundo by Sarmiento and Martín Fierro by Hernández, are remade through algorithmic processes that empty their…

  • 73° Salón Nacional de Rosario

    73° Salón Nacional de Rosario

    04.10.2019 – 15.03.2020 73° Salón Nacional de Rosario           Artistas: Antonella Agesta, Rodrigo Alcon Quintanilha, Facundo Belén, Vico Bueno, Aurora Castillo, Carla Colombo, Cotelito, Diego de Aduriz, Alfredo Dufour, Clara Esborraz, Elvira Ferrazini, Víctor Florido, Alfredo Frías, Jazmín Giordano, Silvia Gurfein, Mónica Heller, Carlos Huffmann, La quemada – teatro de figuras [Emiliana…

  • BODENLOS. VILÉM FLUSSER AND THE ARTS

    BODENLOS. VILÉM FLUSSER AND THE ARTS

    05.04.2017 –  07.05.2017 BODENLOS. VILÉM FLUSSER AND THE ARTS   curated by: Baruch Gottlieb, Pavel Vančát   exhibition concept: Baruch Gottlieb, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski exhibition architecture: Oldřich Morys graphic design: Jan Slabihoudek (opening: Tuesday, 4. 4. 2017 at 6 pm)   The exhibition “Without Firm Ground: Vilém Flusser and the Arts” at GAMU, Prague…

  • Akademie der Künste : Bodenlos – Vilém Flusser und die Künste

    Akademie der Künste : Bodenlos – Vilém Flusser und die Künste

    19.11.2016 – 10.1.2016     Akademie der Künste : Bodenlos – Vilém Flusser und die Künste   Curators: Baruch Gottlieb & Siegfried Zielinski   „Ins Universum der technischen Bilder“ oder „Lob der Oberflächlichkeit“ – mit solchen programmatischen Titeln avancierte Vilém Flusser (1920 – 1991) zu einem der einflussreichsten Denker der Kommunikation und der Medien des…