Works
Transitory Artifacts, A Journey through Time and Media
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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 It traces the transformation of a photographic recording apparatus over five decades, employing both historical reference…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.…
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Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies
Marcello Mercado Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, 2007 Bio-Performance / Bio-Installation, 2007 In Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, Marcello Mercado crafts a meditation on mortality, memory, and the biological archive, unfolding across…
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transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus
Series of Ephemeral Video-Installations. 2010-2011.
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DELETE
Marcello Mercado DELETE Interactive Video Installation . In DELETE, language ceases to be a transparent medium for communication and becomes both subject and residue. Conceived in 2012 as an interactive video installation, the project reflects on the impossibility of truly erasing information within digital and mental architectures. Instead, it proposes the invention of…
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The Economy of Residues: Temporal Assemblages of Capital and Body
Marcello Mercado The Economy of Residues: Temporal Assemblages of Capital and Body 1996 . 2004 The Economy of Residues (2004) is an experimental performance-installation articulating biological material, cognitive labor, and technological obsolescence into an operative system. Through the controlled circulation of human urine collected during readings of Das Kapital, a transitional cash…
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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…
