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Selected Video Works 1994 – 2011
Marcello Mercado – Selected Video Works 1994–2011 presents a selection of video works, video installations, and DNA-based installations produced between 1994 and 2011. The compilation traces an evolving artistic inquiry into the intersections of body, code, and media systems, where biological materials and electronic images…
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Das Kapital 80, AI: The Political Economy of Algorithmic Moderation
Marcello Mercado Capital, Version 80 AI: The Political Economy of Algorithmic Moderation 2025 Das Kapital IA is a work that translates the critical structure of Karl Marx’s Capital into the contemporary context of generative artificial intelligence. Rather than merely reproducing the sequence of chapters…
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Data Paintings
Marcello Mercado Data Paintings 2024 Marcello Mercado’s Data Paintings create an intriguing tension between painting, art history, and contemporary technological conditions. While the twentieth century exhausted the debate around the “death of painting,” Mercado does not revive the debate nostalgically or reactively. Instead, he repositions it within the logic of the digital economy…
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Das Kapital, Version 78, DELETEORIUM
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 78: DELETEORIUM (Deletion Space, Deletion Room) 2025 DELETEORIUM: Das Kapital, Version 78 is the speculative and dissident expansion of the project initiated in Das Kapital, Version 76. In this new version, three languages coexist in collision: the grapheme, the self-collapsing algorithm, and…
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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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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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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…
