Works
Transitory Artifacts, A Journey through Time and Media
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The Torment Zone
The Torment Zone (La Region de la Torture) (Die Region der Unruhe) (La Región del Tormento) Color/Mono English subtitles Year of production: 1992 Format: Betacam SP PAL Country of Origin: Argentina Running Time: 8 min. 40 sec. Drawings: Daniel González Animation: Marcello Mercado Chorus: Coro de la…
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The Warm Place
The Warm Place (El Lugar Tibio) is an experimental video by Argentine artist Marcello Mercado. Made from fragments of video, drawings, photographs, sound, text, hand-painted slides, and digital image processing, the piece explores the instability of the body under conditions of historical violence, technological mediation, and failed memory. …
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Das Kapital – Archivo F.X., 2006
Attempts to translate Das Kapital into a moving image have been discussed in relation to Marcello Mercado’s work on the text. Since 1997, his video work has been connected to projects by Sergei Eisenstein, Guy Debord and Alexander Kluge, addressing the issue of representing economic theory…
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The Voices, Notations, 2021
The Voices (2021) can be read as a notation without a prior score. It is not the inscription of an existing sound but rather an attempt to capture the emergence of a voice before language takes hold. The still-visible staff lines no longer organize pitch or duration.…
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ERODE, 2026
ERODE (2025–ongoing) ERODE operates as a sequential system of 20 operational cases. Each case transforms a human trace into algorithmic and biological signals. ERODE translates human memory loss into signal. Drawings produced by Alzheimer’s patients are converted into algorithms, then…
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The Theory of Cultural Compression
Cultural Compression describes the transformation of complex cultural structures into minimal operational traces. The Theory of Cultural Compression Works and Experiments 1995–2025 Marcello Mercado Table of Contents Preface Cultural Compression Chapter I Compression as Method Chapter II Logic as Compost The Gödel Performances Chapter III Music as Glyph SUMMA – Notations Chapter…
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SUMMA – Notations
SUMMA – Notations, 2012, HD single channel video, 4min 12sec, stereo, 16:9, black/white Compression, notation and the impossible archive of music At first sight, SUMMA – Notations appears deceptively simple. A white field, black marks, fragments of text, and the invocation of monumental works from the history of Western music—compositions…
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ARTIFICIAL EXTELLIGENCE, 2025
Siegfried Zielinski ARTIFICIAL EXTELLIGENCE A Short Manifesto In Virtual Dialogue with Marcello Mercado and Diced Algorithms by Tom Fecht Published in Times of Uncertainty Bilingual English/German Edition, 48 pages, 8 color plates Brochure 21 x 13 cm November 2025 “This Manifesto is primarily aimed at those who have…
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8 hectáreas, 2008, Performance
8 hectares, 2008 Remote performance / algorithmic transduction / collaboration 8 hectares is conceived as a distributed and collaborative operation of territorial translation, carried out remotely between Marcello Mercado’s studio in Cologne, Germany, and the Symbolon laboratory in Unquillo, Córdoba, Argentina, in collaboration with the artist Sebastián Sánchez Zelada. The work is not…
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The chemical and physical perception in the eye of the cat, in the moment of the cut, 2005
https://archive.org/details/TheChemicalAndPhysicalPerceptionInTheEyeOfTheCatInTheMomentOf The chemical and physical perception in the eye of the cat, in the moment of the cut, 2005 electronic music, extreme noises, soundart, microsound, techno, noise, microsound, loop, industrial, game, experimental,
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How leopards caught leopards, 2014
marcellomercado · How leopards caught leopards How leopards caught leopards 20m 42″ 2014 Soundtrack for the videoart piece«How leopards caught leopards», 2004
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Sudafricanus generator serie1, 2004
marcellomercado · Sudafricanus generator serie1 Sudafricanus generator serie1 2004, South Africa Soundtrack from «Primordial Hunters» by Marcello Mercado, 2004