Works
Transitory Artifacts, A Journey through Time and Media
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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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To whom belongs the Time?
Marcello Mercado To whom belongs the Time? stereo, black/white Running time: 1h 03 minutes, 2020 This videoinstallation explores the notion of time as a resource—one that is consumed not only by subjects but by the very medium itself. The video loop unfolds at a pace determined by the technical processes that sustain…
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How leopards caught leopards
Marcello Mercado How leopards caught leopards, 20 min. 41″, stereo, 4:3, black/white/color, 2014 I found these webcam streams during the final broadcasts of Breaking Bad. Most of them disappeared later. Dead platforms, deleted accounts, broken links. People appeared alone in front of their screens. Smoking, waiting, barely speaking. Sometimes it…
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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 – AI – Books – Photography
Marcello Mercado AI – Books Marcello Mercado What I mean to say: There is a war on Was ich damit sagen will: Es herrscht Krieg 398 pages EX_AI-Book 2024 Marcello Mercado High volumes of Post-Post-After-After AI-Book, 623 pages 2024 Marcello…
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Paintings
Marcello Mercado Paintings Fractured SyntaxPaintings at the Threshold of Code and Gesture Marcello Mercado’s paintings invite us into a space where form resists containment. Their surfaces are layered, fractured and shifting – an architecture of marks that seems both deliberate and destabilised. These works do not seek resolution. They pulse with the residual…
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Marcello Mercado – Thinking (about AI) – Galerie Bernet Bertram – 2025
Marcello Mercado February 22 to April 12, 2025 Preview Friday, February 21, 7 to 9 pm Marcello Mercado Thinking (about AI) KI-assistierte Bildkompositionen und Videokunst Galerie Bernet Bertram Goethestraße 2-3 10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg Aufgang B, über den Hof, Hochparterre Öffnungszeiten: Mittwoch bis Freitag, 14 -18 Uhr Sonnabend, 11-16 Uhr und nach…
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Marcello Mercado, High volumes of Post-Post-After-After, AI-Book, 2025
Marcello Mercado High volumes of Post-Post-After-After AI-Book, 623 pages 2025 ONLINE BOOK — Browse the complete 623-page book using the navigation controls below. VIDEO INSTALLATION, 2026 The installation translates the geometric structures of High Volumes of Post-Post-After-After from the book into a continuous moving-image environment. Marcello Mercado, High Volumes of Post-Post…
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Marcello Mercado, Mathematical Heads, AI-Book, 2024
Marcello Mercado Mathematical Heads AI-Book, 132 pages 2024
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The green that surrounds you, AI-Book, 2023
Marcello Mercado El verde que te rodea / The green that surrounds you / Das Grün, das dich umgibt AI-Book / Artificial intelligence 2023 263 ways of looking at Metahumans / 263 formas de ver a los metahumanos / 263 Sichtweisen auf Metamenschen.
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Marcello Mercado, What I mean to say: There is a war on, EX_AI-Book, 2024
Marcello Mercado What I mean to say: There is a war on Was ich damit sagen will: Es herrscht Krieg 398 pages EX_AI-Book 2024