AI

  • ERODE, 2026

    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…

  • ARTIFICIAL EXTELLIGENCE, 2025

    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…

  • Self-Portrait in a State of Archive, 2025

    Self-Portrait in a State of Archive, 2025

    AI-reconstructed photography, 2025.

  • HOS Image: Waiting as an algorithmic form: The image as a promise, 2025

    HOS Image: Waiting as an algorithmic form: The image as a promise, 2025

                Marcello Mercado   HOS Image: Waiting as an algorithmic form: The image as a promise   2025     (German)   (Spanish)   1. At the threshold between generation and expectation, this installation presents an image that does not yet exist. A recurring system message, trapped in its own…

  • Das Kapital, Version 82: Exponential Capital, 2025

    Das Kapital, Version 82: Exponential Capital, 2025

        Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 82: Exponential Capital Artist´s book 2025     In Das Kapital, Version 82: Exponential Capital, Marcello Mercado continues his decades-long deconstruction of Karl Marx’s seminal text by replacing its linguistic architecture with a sequence of ungraspable numerical scales. Each chapter and section of Capital, Volume I is stripped…

  • Das Kapital 80, AI: The Political Economy of Algorithmic Moderation

    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…

  • Data Paintings

    Data Paintings

      Marcello Mercado Data Paintings 2024   Marcello Mercado’s Data Paintings create an intriguing tension between painting, art history, and contemporary technological conditions. While the twentieth century exhausted the debate around the “death of painting,” Mercado does not revive the debate nostalgically or reactively. Instead, he repositions it within the logic of the digital economy…

  • Poly-Auto-Portraits 02

    Poly-Auto-Portraits 02

          Marcello Mercado Poly-Auto-Portraits: Unstable Configurations of the Self Photographic Series 2025             In this new series, the concept of self–portraiture is expanded to the point that the boundaries of recognizable facial representation are dissolved. These poly-portraits are not merely superficial variations or controlled exercises in multiplication. Instead,…

  • Das Kapital, Version 78, DELETEORIUM

    Das Kapital, Version 78, DELETEORIUM

              Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 78: DELETEORIUM (Deletion Space, Deletion Room) 2025       DELETEORIUM: Das Kapital, Version 78 is the speculative and dissident expansion of the project initiated in Das Kapital, Version 76. In this new version, three languages coexist in collision: the grapheme, the self-collapsing algorithm, and…

  • Das Kapital, Version 76, Algorithms, 2025

    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,…

  • Das Kapital, Version 76, Algorithms, 2025

    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,…