Marcello Mercado

..... paintings, drawings, performances, netart, installations, videoart, bioart, soundart

videoart

Videography [+]

Selected videos:

transferring, storing, sharing, and hybriding: Text_version
The digital-information-storage inheritance of generations and nations: I have considered all the possible scenarios of events as large databases and reality as a process of hybridization, transduction and appropriaton.

“He can bear with equanimity the loss of his culture, but the loss of his hard disk may drive him to despair.“
Niccolo Machiavelli

Written by Marcello Mercado
Music by Marcello Mercado
Edited by Marcello Mercado
2011

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New Automata
This video was inspired by the Hasse Diagram for a propositional calculus for three automatons and the article: "Is the world a machine?" by K. Svozil.

Drawings and Animation by Marcello Mercado
Music by Marcello Mercado
Edition by Marcello Mercado
2011

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Live streamings from Dolmens
by Marcello Mercado

DNA-performance-installation- soundart
(LIVE) 19/06/11 14:17 PM

Place: Flintinge, Dinamarca
Dolmen2: 54° 44´23.99" N 11° 47´23.36" E elev. 4m

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Interface-Performance.

Running time: 5min. 52"
Animation by Marcello Mercado
Music by Marcello Mercado
Edition by Marcello Mercado
2011

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„Das Kapital – Capital”
videoart – bioart – videoinstallation by Marcello Mercado
Original Running time: 1 hour and Variable duration
USA, Argentina, France, Germany, 1999 – 2009

„transfering, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus”
videoart – bioart – Installation by Marcello Mercado
What exactly we are accumulating in ours brains, hard disks, servers, DNAs? What kind of imagination we are creating with this archives?
This work reflects the exploration of the gaps between digital on-line archives, Human Genome, Satellite data and the screens and it´s embedded databases.
Danmark, Germany, 2010

„Discussing with you some very important scientific newspaper of the day”
Performance by Marcello Mercado
A Process of Dissemination of scientific Information?
Scientific explanations? A social utility that connects people with important scientific news? A scientific method of Step by Step-plan? “Unusual”-she said, OK! something like creak-creak-creak, .Scientific breakthroughs, you and me.
Argentina, 1994

„Macupuncture”
Performance – Installation by Marcello Mercado
Can Acupuncture Help Weight Loss?. Here a treatment!
Germany, 2008

„Supermassive”
videoart by Marcello Mercado
Germany, 1999

"Biorealismus"
Performance by Marcello Mercado,
The project was about a long-term bio-art-experiment.
Developing Gödel´s ideas and biological-actions-experiments in the streets of Köln as a 3-dimensional grid.
Germany, 2005

"The chemical and physical perception in the eye of the cat, in the moment of the cut"
videoart by Marcello Mercado
Germany, 2005

„Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants.. “
Performance – Installation by Marcello Mercado
In 2007 I made a double intervention in the Documenta Kassel: 1) I took red poppies from the art work of Sanja Ivekovic: “Poppy Field” and I have extracted the DNA from them. A month later, I have disolved the frozen DNA in water where were living water-worms (Biomphalaria glabrata).
I have transmitted through Baby- calls their own genoma.
Germany, 2007

“Die Konstruktion genetischer Chromosomenkarten”
Videoart by Marcello Mercado
1 hour loop, 2 monitors
Germany, 1999

„38% und Simulationen”
videoart by Marcello Mercado
Germany, 1999

„The on-coming water”
Videoart by Marcello Mercado
Danmark, 2006

„Re-routing Bio-pockets”
videoart by Marcello Mercado
Germany, 1999

"Primordial Hunters"
Videoart by Marcello Mercado
Cape Town, Southafrica, 2004: I can look on the hunters in the distance. The sun-light, the handler and the dogs. The suppression of distance.
To escape, to copulate to eat. The species classification is dissected.The strategy of food procurement and food storing. The hunter is in tune with the prey. Tiny grains of sounds. To disable or to kill. The victim's heads: Stay tuned! and today the challenging words are : behavioral, carnivorous, insects, velocity!
South Africa, Germany, 2004

"Primordial Soup"
Performance by Marcello Mercado
Primordial Soup is a performance that I did in Cape Town, South Africa in 2005 meanwhile a group of scuba-divers were reparating a boat, I have simulated a prebiotic soup. I tried to revisit, to review and to repeat the theories of the origin of Life (Mr. Oparin and the Miller-Urey experiments).
South Africa, Germany, 2005

„The Silence”
videoart by Marcello Mercado
Argentina, 1995

„Captured Sequences”
videoinstallation by Marcello Mercado
1 hour loop, 30 monitors
Germany, 2008

Performing Arts
Low Lives 3 International Festival of Live Networked Performances

"Human Genome re-Activation" by Marcello Mercado

keywords:
bioart, genome, finger, soundart, genetics, synthetic voice,
DNA – Sequence alignment, chromosome 1, DNA, Nucleotides,
adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), thymine (T), DNA-Bases

I lost one finger (the pinky from my right hand) when I was 8 years old. The performance is about
"to read or to transmit" to my hand -in form of audio - fragments of the human genome. The idea is
to "activate" -through sounds- the DNA-knowledge about how to make a new finger.
The running time (activation) of the performance is 3 minutes.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14385478

Dossier Videobrasil: Quicktimes [+]

The Warm Place, 1998

The Edge of Rain, 1995