Works
Transitory Artifacts, A Journey through Time and Media
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Text as Territory (1998)
Text as Territory (1998) In Text as Territory, a series of graphic works produced in 1998, language ceases to function as a vehicle of transmission and instead becomes a contested spatial field. Fragments in Latin from Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations and newspaper reports drawn from the Georgian press—originating in a…
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Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015
In Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, the book is presented as a physical apparatus in which biological processes, algorithmic operations and sensory translations converge to form a tangible sequence that defies the neutrality of the archive. Each page acts as a threshold between systems of inscription. Genetic sequences…
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Capital Part 1 – version 2015
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital Teil 1 – Version 2015 Marcello Mercado Das Kapital Teil 1– Capital Part 1, version 2015 1 channel video-sound installation, 15 min. 58″ stereo 4:3 black/white and colour http://vimeo.com/133179369 Das Kapital unfolds as a long-term investigation into how political-economic critique can be translated into images—how theory…
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The Hypergaussian War – Installation – 73min
Marcello Mercado The Hypergaussian War IA Video installation, color, sound, 73 minutes 03″ 2025 The Hypergaussian War is a video installation combining artificial intelligence, generative 3D rendering, real-time audiovisual processing, and electronic sound composition. It depicts an experimental war between obsolete video game avatars re-emerging within an interactive simulation where media art,…
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Selected Video Works 1994 – 2011
Marcello Mercado – Selected Video Works 1994–2011 presents a selection of video works, video installations, and DNA-based installations produced between 1994 and 2011. The compilation traces an evolving artistic inquiry into the intersections of body, code, and media systems, where biological materials and electronic images converge. This compilation includes: The on-coming…
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Between Bodies and Circuits 2010–2025
Marcello Mercado – Between Bodies and Circuits This selection brings together works produced between 2010 and 2025 that explore the translation between biological, algorithmic and visual systems. From bio-performative gestures to post-photographic reconstructions and algorithmic archives, these works examine the ways technology transforms perception and embodiment. Each piece functions as a node in a…
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Dead Code Anatomies, 1990 – 2025
Marcello Mercado Dead Code Anatomies Installation 1990 – 2025 Dead Code Anatomies is a series of four algorithmic scripts that address the mechanisms by which physical violence is filtered, refracted, and suppressed by systems of procedural representation. Each work is based on a black and white analog photograph taken in 1990 using…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
