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Marcello Mercado, Testflüge / Test flights, 1-channel video installation, 2023

 

 

 

Marcello Mercado

Testflüge – Test flights

1-channel video installation

10m 04″, colour, silent,
2023

 

 

 

Vimeo Pass: deutschland

 

 

 

 

The interacting subroutines
Adding elements to the Scene
The moving target
Extinction
[data mining] program
Why does this method fail with nonsense factors?
Dead Files
Denied File
1 – To conserve valuable energy
2 – Behavioral
3 – A virtual particle
4 – Access Restricted
Start a new topic
I start to divide myself in an uncontrolled way.

 

Marcello Mercado

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marcello Mercado, Listening the chromosome 17, 1-channel Video Installation, 2023

 

 

Marcello Mercado

Listening the chromosome 17
1-channel Video Installation
Bioart /Hybrid
21´02″, colour, stereo, HD
2023

 

Vimeo Pass: deutschland

 

 

 

 

 

 

The idea of this installation is to explore the different instances and possibilities of the self-portrait through A.I. and 3D scanners.
Who can I be if I am perceived by machines? Am I alive or am I dead to those artificial intelligences? Is it necessary to make this distinction?
It would seem that the text acquired a hysterical character as a producer of images.

The countless beta versions of the self-portrait
For three months, I conducted listening sessions on chromosome 17 of the human genome. Some of its fragments were translated into audio by a synthetic voice (A.I.).
During the sessions, I randomly scanned my head with various 3D scanner apps on my iPhone.

These captures were unsuccessful because the 3D scanner completed and resolved my head – even textured it – without understanding the
contextualization or understanding of what a human head is like.
I created images using DELL-E and combined them with those created by the scanners.
I virtually walked around with a carved wooden head that was my object of study, like my own head.

I took 3D scans of almost everything around me: Plants, walls, various objects, garbage, keys, laptop, etc. and a final animation in the style
of a big primordial scanner soup.
Then I corrected the editing of the animation by suppressing text with A.I.
The audio of the installation partially performs a sonic recombination of chromosome 17 with itself through A.I.

 

Marcello Mercado