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Imagen HOS: La espera como forma algorítmica: la imagen como promesa
Marcello Mercado Imagen HOS: La espera como forma algorítmica: La imagen como promesa 2025 Estructura del proyecto I. Núcleo conceptual Imagen HOS: instancia latente en servidores, no visible, suspendida. Espera algorítmica: no como error, sino como diseño funcional. Jerarquías de acceso: visualidad mediada por pago…
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HOS Image: Waiting as an algorithmic form: The image as a promise, 2025
Marcello Mercado HOS Image: Waiting as an algorithmic form: The image as a promise 2025 (German) (Spanish) 1. At the threshold between generation and expectation, this installation presents an image that does not yet exist. A recurring system message, trapped in its own…
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HOS-Bild: Warten als algorithmische Form: Das Bild als Versprechen
Marcello Mercado HOS-Bild: Warten als algorithmische Form: Das Bild als Versprechen 2025 1. An der Schwelle zwischen Generierung und Erwartung präsentiert diese Installation ein noch nicht existierendes Bild. Eine sich wiederholende Systemmeldung, gefangen in ihrem eigenen Wartestatus, verwandelt sich in eine generative Landschaft. Hier wird das „Nicht-Ereignis“ zur Szene:…
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Live Streamings from Dolmens: DNA-Performance-Installation-Soundart
Marcello Mercado Live Streamings from Dolmens, 2011 DNA-Performance-Installation-Soundart Flintinge, Denmark — 19/06/11 14:17 PM Live Streamings from Dolmens unfolds as a quiet yet potent act of temporal entanglement. Beneath the ancient stones of Flintinge—dolmens whose origins drift somewhere between archaeology and speculation—the artist instigates a dialogue between…
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Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera
THE DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA GROUP The transdisciplinary DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA GROUP consists of project leaders Katharina Gsöllpointner (media theoretician), Ruth Schnell (artist), Romana Schuler (art historian) and artists Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel. During the research process invited artists and scientists will participate as special guests in the context of certain topics and/or project phases.…
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Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies
Marcello Mercado Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, 2007 Bio-Performance / Bio-Installation, 2007 In Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, Marcello Mercado crafts a meditation on mortality, memory, and the biological archive, unfolding across…
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transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus
Series of Ephemeral Video-Installations. 2010-2011.
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DELETE
Marcello Mercado DELETE Interactive Video Installation . In DELETE, language ceases to be a transparent medium for communication and becomes both subject and residue. Conceived in 2012 as an interactive video installation, the project reflects on the impossibility of truly erasing information within digital and mental architectures. Instead, it proposes the invention of…
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The Economy of Residues: Temporal Assemblages of Capital and Body
Marcello Mercado The Economy of Residues: Temporal Assemblages of Capital and Body 1996 . 2004 The Economy of Residues (2004) is an experimental performance-installation articulating biological material, cognitive labor, and technological obsolescence into an operative system. Through the controlled circulation of human urine collected during readings of Das Kapital, a transitional cash…
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Dead Code Anatomies
Marcello Mercado Dead Code Anatomies Installation 1990 – 2025 Dead Code Anatomies is a series of four algorithmic scripts that address the mechanisms by which physical violence is filtered, refracted, and suppressed by systems of procedural representation. Each work is based on a black and white analog photograph taken in 1990 using…
