Bioart
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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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Live Streamings from Dolmens: DNA-Performance-Installation-Soundart
Marcello Mercado Live Streamings from Dolmens, 2011 DNA-Performance-Installation-Soundart Flintinge, Denmark — 19/06/11 14:17 PM Live Streamings from Dolmens unfolds as a quiet yet potent act of temporal entanglement. Beneath the ancient stones of Flintinge—dolmens whose origins drift somewhere between archaeology and speculation—the artist instigates a dialogue between…
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Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015
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.…
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Trace, Burn, Archive, 2005 – 2008
Marcello Mercado Trace, Burn, Archive (2005–2008) Performances Series . In Trace, Burn, Archive, Marcello Mercado conducts a five-part performance series in Denmark and Germany, using his own DNA as both material and message. Between 2005 and 2008, each action explores a different relationship to the body’s trace – its preservation, dispersal, destruction, and…
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A DNA Artifact , 2007
A DNA Artifact Running time: 5 days Performance, 2007 . In 2007, the artist carried out a three-part performative action across distinct European geographies—Munich, Extremadura, and Niederzissen—combining field observation, basic biotechnology, and cultural reflection. Act I began at the Ostfriedhof cemetery in Munich, at the grave of filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A…
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Gödel Devices and Epistemic Apparatuses
Gödel Devices and Epistemic Apparatuses: A Performative Construction (Geneva, 2006) In 2006, a performative apparatus was activated within a hotel room in Geneva—an environment operating simultaneously as a spatial container and a neutralized architecture of regulation. The performance constructed a field of epistemic operations based on the formal structure of Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness…
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Images become containers; containers become images: A Performance in Seven Movements, 2005
Images become containers; containers become images: A Performance in Seven Movements 2005 Conceptual FrameworkThis performance unfolds within a conceptual triangle: Max Weber’s reading of Calvinism as the ethical substrate of capitalism, John Calvin’s moral rehabilitation of profit through moderation and discipline, and Karl Marx’s critique of capital’s capacity to profit from catastrophe. The…
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Marcello Mercado, bacterial compositions musical notations – Part I, Notations, 2023
Musical Notations, 2023
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Listening the chromosome 17, 1-channel Video Installation, 2023
Single-channel video installation with immersive sound, 21´02″, 2023
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Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video Transitio_MX 05
20.09.2013 – 29.09.2013 Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video Transitio_MX 05 México DF La palabra “vida” tiene numerosos significados. Para comenzar, es una abstracción filosófica que se refiere a nuestra existencia en el mundo. De igual forma, se refiere también a los procesos biológicos, así como al resultado de experimentos…
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Taller de Introducción al Bioarte
20.11.2011 – 21-11-2011 Taller de Introducción al Bioarte dictado por Marcello Mercado Espacio Fundación Telefónica Arenales 1540, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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SEAFair 2010 – The apparatus of life and death
04.10.2010 – 20.10.2010 SEAFair 2010 – The apparatus of life and death Curated by: Melentie Pandilovski Assistant curator and exhibition production: Elena Veljanovska Artists: Zoran Todorovic | Michalis Pichler | Polona Tratnik & Ajda Maric | Niki Sperou | Petko Dourmana | Marcello Marcado | Ubermorgen.com | Filip Jovanovski |…