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The Voices, Notations, 2021
The Voices (2021) can be read as a notation without a prior score. It is not the inscription of an existing sound but rather an attempt to capture the emergence of a voice before language takes hold. The still-visible staff lines no longer organize pitch or duration.…
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Das Kapital / Napster Search, 1999
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital / Napster / September 1999 This is one of the few surviving screenshots from a search for «Kapital« on Napster. The work no longer exists. Nor does the network that produced it. In September 1999, as part of my Das Kapital project, I searched for «Kapital» on Napster. The action…
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ERODE, 2026
ERODE (2025–ongoing) ERODE operates as a sequential system of 20 operational cases. Each case transforms a human trace into algorithmic and biological signals. ERODE translates human memory loss into signal. Drawings produced by Alzheimer’s patients are converted into algorithms, then…
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Galería Corteza
BREVE PRESENTACIÓN DE LA GALERÍA: Galería Corteza es una propuesta colectiva integrada por tres artistas del NEA y vinculada a materiales atravesados por procesos de desgaste, desaparición y transformación. Reúne obras de Néstor Braslavsky, Cristian Cochia y Marcello Mercado realizadas a partir de un tronco centenario muerto por la urbanización, cortezas caídas de…
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SUMMA – Notations
SUMMA – Notations, 2012, HD single channel video, 4min 12sec, stereo, 16:9, black/white Compression, notation and the impossible archive of music At first sight, SUMMA – Notations appears deceptively simple. A white field, black marks, fragments of text, and the invocation of monumental works from the history of Western music—compositions…
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ARTIFICIAL EXTELLIGENCE, 2025
Siegfried Zielinski ARTIFICIAL EXTELLIGENCE A Short Manifesto In Virtual Dialogue with Marcello Mercado and Diced Algorithms by Tom Fecht Published in Times of Uncertainty Bilingual English/German Edition, 48 pages, 8 color plates Brochure 21 x 13 cm November 2025 “This Manifesto is primarily aimed at those who have…
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8 hectáreas, 2008, Performance
8 hectares, 2008 Remote performance / algorithmic transduction / collaboration 8 hectares is conceived as a distributed and collaborative operation of territorial translation, carried out remotely between Marcello Mercado’s studio in Cologne, Germany, and the Symbolon laboratory in Unquillo, Córdoba, Argentina, in collaboration with the artist Sebastián Sánchez Zelada. The work is not…
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The chemical and physical perception in the eye of the cat, in the moment of the cut, 2005
https://archive.org/details/TheChemicalAndPhysicalPerceptionInTheEyeOfTheCatInTheMomentOf The chemical and physical perception in the eye of the cat, in the moment of the cut, 2005 electronic music, extreme noises, soundart, microsound, techno, noise, microsound, loop, industrial, game, experimental,
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How leopards caught leopards, 2014
marcellomercado · How leopards caught leopards How leopards caught leopards 20m 42″ 2014 Soundtrack for the videoart piece«How leopards caught leopards», 2004
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Sudafricanus generator serie1, 2004
marcellomercado · Sudafricanus generator serie1 Sudafricanus generator serie1 2004, South Africa Soundtrack from «Primordial Hunters» by Marcello Mercado, 2004
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Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht, 2014
Marcello Mercado Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht 25.5 × 25.5 cm, 60 pages 2014 Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht (2014) is an artist book conceived as an operation of translation and erasure. The project takes as its point of departure the seven painted versions of Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh,…
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Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance, 2015, Book
Marcello Mercado Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance 25 × 20 cm, 240 pages 2015 Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance (2015) is a photographic book structured around a paradoxical form of self-representation: a body that appears only through its reflections, traces and mediations. Mercado constructs a visual field populated…