Works
Transitory Artifacts, A Journey through Time and Media
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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
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Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht, 2014
Marcello Mercado Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht 25.5 × 25.5 cm, 60 pages 2014 Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht (2014) is an artist book conceived as an operation of translation and erasure. The project takes as its point of departure the seven painted versions of Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh,…
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Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance, 2015, Book
Marcello Mercado Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance 25 × 20 cm, 240 pages 2015 Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance (2015) is a photographic book structured around a paradoxical form of self-representation: a body that appears only through its reflections, traces and mediations. Mercado constructs a visual field populated…
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Material Transfer Unit, 2025, PAINTING
Material Transfer Unit, 2025Painting-collageDried plants, leaves, seeds, vegetal adhesive compounds, putty, metallic insulating foil, plastic foil, neon100 × 80 cm At first glance the painting appears wrapped rather than painted. Transparent plastic stretches across the surface in overlapping layers, catching the light unevenly and producing a skin that is at once…
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VIDEO SELECTION
VIDEOART Video works — Selection The body of video works developed from the 1990s to the present is articulated not as a sequence of discrete pieces, but as an operational field in which moving images function as a system of inscription. Video does not appear here as a representational medium or a…
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Das Kapital (Restrictions), 2005 – Artist’s book
Das Kapital (Restrictions), 2005 Artist’s book This artist’s book belongs to the series Das Kapital and operates as a material archive of minor gestures, residues, and peripheral economies. Composed of twenty plastic pocket-pages, the book holds broken golf tees collected from golf courses, used golf gloves, and domestic photographs of German…
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Das Kapital (Grocery Ledger), 1997
This grocery ledger, recovered in 1997 shortly before the definitive closure of the shop where the artist’s grandparents used to buy their provisions, constitutes one of the earliest foundational gestures of the long-term project Das Kapital. It does not originate from ownership of capital, but from participation in its everyday circulation. The pages…