Works
Transitory Artifacts, A Journey through Time and Media
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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,…
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Das Kapital, Version 77, The Weight of the Weights
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 77: The Weight of the Weights An Archive in Transit 1- Channel Video Installation sound, color, 5 minutes 2025 Das Kapital, Version 77: The Weight of the Weights An Archive in Transit . In Das Kapital, Version 77: In The Weight of the…
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Formula Van Gogh
Marcello Mercado Formula Van Gogh Speculative Formula – Essay 2025 Consider the following expression: Here, V(t) represents the “sales function” of Vincent van Gogh across time: before his birth (), through his life, and long after his death (+). The integral equaling −1 formalizes a paradox: in his…
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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,…
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Run
Marcello Mercado RUN Photography 2025 Run: A Photographic Fugue in the Post-Digital Landscape Marcello Mercado, 2025 In RUN, Marcello Mercado radically displaces the generative image. Through a series of 54 black-and-white photographs taken in Germany, South Africa, Argentina, and Denmark, the artist presents constructed…
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On the Production of Images and Sounds with AI, 2025
Marcello Mercado On the Production of Images and Sounds with AI 2025 This article examines the interaction between artificial intelligence (AI) and the production of images and sounds, proposing that AI’s fundamental theme is eternity—not as static preservation, but as a dynamic, self-generative process. The central (and only) theme…
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Autorretrato en estado de archivo
Marcello Mercado Autorretrato en estado de archivo 2025 Esta serie de autorretratos en blanco y negro está formada por escaneos tridimensionales de la cabeza del propio artista. Cada imagen ha sido reconstruida digitalmente mediante algoritmos de inteligencia artificial y tratada con técnicas visuales que oscilan entre la precisión anatómica…
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The algorithm, 2024
Marcello Mercado The Algorithm 2024 Process Art – New Media Art – Photography – AI The Algorithm is an exploration of the intersection between obsolete technologies, photographic processes, and the evolving nature of AI. It traces the transformation of a photographic recording apparatus over five decades, employing both historical reference…
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The Ulysses Syndrome in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Marcello Mercado The Ulysses Syndrome in the Age of Artificial Intelligence An Individual Strategy in Response to Algorithmic Seduction 2025 The expansion of generative artificial intelligences has established a new technical regime of production, perception, and decision-making. In this context, the concept of the Ulysses syndrome in the age of AI…
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Imagen HOS: La espera como forma algorítmica: la imagen como promesa
Marcello Mercado Imagen HOS: La espera como forma algorítmica: La imagen como promesa 2025 Estructura del proyecto I. Núcleo conceptual Imagen HOS: instancia latente en servidores, no visible, suspendida. Espera algorítmica: no como error, sino como diseño funcional. Jerarquías de acceso: visualidad mediada por pago…
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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.…