Videoart

  • Burning Garden, Single-channel video, 7m 43s, 2024

    Burning Garden, Single-channel video, 7m 43s, 2024

    Burning Garden (2024) Single-channel video, 7m 43s, sound and animation by Marcello Mercado Burning Garden is an expanded animation work that reconfigures the touchscreen of an iPhone 12 into a generative surface for immersive image construction. Shot entirely with a smartphone equipped with a LiDAR sensor, the project explores the unstable boundary between tactile interaction,…

  • Marcello Mercado, Filmography, 2025

        Marcello Mercado Filmography     The Hypergaussian Wars 73m 03″, color, sound, 2K, 2025, Argentine – Germany   Läuft bei dir (Things are going great for you) 7m 20″, color, silent, 2K, 2025, Germany   Burning Garden 7m 43″, colour, stereo, HD, 2024, Argentina   Listening the chromosome 17 21m 02″, colour, stereo,…

  • Listening the chromosome 17, 1-channel Video Installation, 2023

    Listening the chromosome 17, 1-channel Video Installation, 2023

    Single-channel video installation with immersive sound, 21´02″, 2023

  • Marcello Mercado, Testflüge / Test flights, 1-channel video installation, 2023

    Marcello Mercado, Testflüge / Test flights, 1-channel video installation, 2023

          Marcello Mercado Testflüge – Test flights 1-channel video installation 10m 04″, colour, silent, 2023       Vimeo Pass: deutschland         The interacting subroutines Adding elements to the Scene The moving target Extinction [data mining] program Why does this method fail with nonsense factors? Dead Files Denied File 1…

  • Marcello Mercado, Wem gehört die Zeit? (To whom does the time belong?), 1-channel videoinstallation

    Marcello Mercado, Wem gehört die Zeit? (To whom does the time belong?), 1-channel videoinstallation

      Marcello Mercado, Wem gehört die Zeit? (To whom does the time belong?) 1-channel videoinstallation 63minutes, 
 black/white 2020     The installation explores the time that the same medium consumes.
The inaudible soundtrack is made up of frequencies that stimulate photosynthesis.   The conceptof the videoinstallation is based on the text of Siegfried Zielinski written…

  • Procesar Destruir Representar Archivar [Process Destruct Represent Archive]

    Procesar Destruir Representar Archivar [Process Destruct Represent Archive]

    02.07.2020 – 03.09.2020   Marcello Mercado 2020   Procesar Destruir Representar Archivar [Process Destruct Represent Archive]   Monitor 1: Facundo traducido [Translated Facundo], 5’ Monitor 2: Martín Fierro traducido [Translated Martín Fierro], 5’ The two milestones of national literature, Facundo by Sarmiento and Martín Fierro by Hernández, are remade through algorithmic processes that empty their…

  • BODENLOS. VILÉM FLUSSER AND THE ARTS

    BODENLOS. VILÉM FLUSSER AND THE ARTS

    05.04.2017 –  07.05.2017 BODENLOS. VILÉM FLUSSER AND THE ARTS   curated by: Baruch Gottlieb, Pavel Vančát   exhibition concept: Baruch Gottlieb, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski exhibition architecture: Oldřich Morys graphic design: Jan Slabihoudek (opening: Tuesday, 4. 4. 2017 at 6 pm)   The exhibition “Without Firm Ground: Vilém Flusser and the Arts” at GAMU, Prague…

  • Marcello Mercado: Fragments of “Das Kapital Teil 1” (1999–2009) | Potential Spaces

    Marcello Mercado: Fragments of “Das Kapital Teil 1” (1999–2009) | Potential Spaces

    16.02.2017 -18.02.2017       Mercado Marcello: Fragments of “Das Kapital Teil 1” (1999–2009)   Potential Spaces   Marcello Mercado: Presentation of fragments of his work “Das Kapital Teil 1” (1999–2009) in conversation with Siegfried Zielinski   Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design & ZKM | Center for Art and Media 16. – 18. 02.…

  • ISEA2016: 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art

    ISEA2016: 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art

      16.05.2016 – 22.05.2016     ISEA2016: 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art     Marcello Mercado Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera     (c) Marcello Mercado     ISEA International Foundation C. Kouwenbergzoom 107 3065 KC Rotterdam The Netherlands     ISEA International Headquarters University of Brighton Faculty of…

  • West: Without Firm Ground Vilém Flusser and the Arts

    West: Without Firm Ground Vilém Flusser and the Arts

    19.03.2016 – 07.05.2016     West: Without Firm Ground Vilém Flusser and the Arts     Without Firm Ground Vilém Flusser and the Arts In cooperation with the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe & Akademie der Künste Berlin       ‘Synthetic images as an answer to Auschwitz’ (‘We Shall Survive in…

  • No Firm Ground : Vilém Flusser and the arts

    No Firm Ground : Vilém Flusser and the arts

    15.08.2015 – 18.10.2015       No Firm Ground : Vilém Flusser and the arts     Vilém Flusser (1920– 1991) is one of the outstanding art and media philosophers of the 20th century. Many of his texts foresaw the future of technology-based communication and networking. Today his works are inspiring; Flusser was convinced that…

  • PLAY Videoarte

    PLAY Videoarte

    30.07.2015 – 11.08.2015     PLAY Videoarte   (Pdf)     Jueves 30/7 – 20 hs. – Lugar: Sala del Sol (Córdoba 794) “POÉTICAS DE ARCHIVO: APUNTES EN TORNO A LAS PRÁCTICAS AUDIOVISUALES CONTEMPORÁNEAS Y SUS ARCHIVOS EN ARGENTINA.” (a cargo de Mariela Cantú)   Viernes 31/7 y Sábado 1/8 – 16 a 18.30 hs.…