Texts
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On the Production of Images and Sounds with AI
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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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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Connections and Gaps between Artists’ and Institutions’ New Media Preservation Efforts
02.02.2021 Connections and Gaps between Artists’ and Institutions’ New Media Preservation Efforts by Qinyue Liu Media art, which frequently involves data, software, or electronic devices, continues to face the challenge of technological obsolescence. In a previous article, this research project reviewed example models and strategies that media artists have…
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Magazine des Cultures digitales: Bio-Arts L’essence de la vie
07.04.2020 Magazine des Cultures digitales: Bio-Arts L’essence de la vie La Nature, la Vie, le Vivant : des concepts philosophiques au cœur de la création artistique, de la poétique et des sciences. Depuis la fin des années 1980-début des années 1990, l’art a quitté le domaine de la représentation…
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Book: Peter Krüll – Bilderschreiben
10.10.2018 Book: Peter Krüll – bilderschreiben Writing or image? Handwriting as a central, significant and currently very topical stylistic device. Beautiful or outrageous – legible and enigmatic. This book ‘Peter Krüll – bilderschreiben’ presents more than 150 selected exhibits by artists and designers. The collection is fascinating…
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Transcripts of Radio Programs : Stan Brakhage and Marcello Mercado
14.11.2016 Transcripts of Radio Programs : Stan Brakhage and Marcello Mercado Stan Brakhage The Test of Time: transcripts of radio programs with Stan Brakhage (pdf) 1982 Marcello Mercado Das Kapital: Opera Oratorium (pdf) 1999
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KUNSTFORUM International: 236
01.10.2015 KUNSTFORUM International 236 Wendezeiten Deutschland in der Kunst „Nationen malen keine Bilder“, schrieb Werner Hofmann 1999 in seiner Streitschrift Wie deutsch ist die deutsche Kunst?. Mit der Praxis künstlerischen Arbeitens haben nationale Zuschreibungen wenig zu tun. Schließlich … Nachrichten Vom 19. November 2015 bis zum…
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Artists – Visions of death
Artists – Visions of death Stan Brakhage The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eye 1971 Stan Brakhage_Lectures_revised (pdf) Marcello Mercado El Vacío – Empiness 1994 Marcello Mercado_Lecture_revised (pdf) Derek Jarman Blue 1993 Maya Deren Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 with…
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Marcello Mercado: WHITE – Artist´s book
14.12.2013 Marcello Mercado WHITE Published on Dec 14, 2013 Artist´s book 125 pages
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TECNICA: VIDEO
01.01.2013 TECNICA: VIDEO Editorial : EDICIONES OLMO (1 Enero 2013) Idioma : Español Tapa blanda : 110 páginas ISBN-10 : 9871555024 Tecnica:Video da cuenta a traves de 10 piezas de video arte de la multiplicidad de obras que utilizan al video como…
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Recorridos – Arte, ciencia y tecnología – Centro Cultural Recoleta
15.11.2012 – 09.12.2012 Recorridos Arte, ciencia y tecnología. Catálogo de la exposición realizada en el Centro Cultural Recoleta Centro Cultural Recoleta