Split Film Festival 1998
Split, Croatia
Marcello Mercado
"The Warm Place" 1998
Videoart

Marcello Mercado
"Contact with Dead animal"
Performance - Installation, 17-23-04.98
Goethe Institute Córdoba, Argentina

"Like some substance in a solution,l split myself into electrically positive or
negative succesions under the rule of quartz lamps and the espectroscope...
Most comfortable and appropriate, most comfortable and appropriate...
for the ultraviolet lamp, for the color areas that grow bigger.
I´m a bubble structure holding a green-fiber easily-collapsable mass."
Marcello Mercado

Poster :
Victoria García Castellanos and Adrián Manavella

Chorus. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Directed by Gustavo Espada

Lighta:
Santiago Pérez
Soledad Sánchez Goldar
Hernán Sevilla
Gonzalo Vallés
Bernardo Vallejo

Music composed by Marcello Mercado
Sound Post-production Marcos Carreño and Jorge Helena

Ciclo de Vídeo Creación Latinoamericano

Comisariado por Menene Gras Balaguer

Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC)
C/ Museo, s/n
Badajoz - España

Del 18 de marzo al 2 de abril de 1998.

Gustavo Romano, Ar Detroy, Silvina Cafici, Iván Marino, Camilo Almejeiras, Jorge La Ferla, Leonardo Ayala, Gastón Duprat, Marcelo Mercado, Julio Real, Diego Lascano (ARGENTINA)

Sonia Andrade, Rafael Franca, Vicent Carelli, Roberto Sandoval, Tadeu Jugle, Walter Silveira, Marcelo Machado, Renato Barbieri, Paulo Morelli, Sandra Kogut, Eder Santos, Arnaldo Antunes, Caos-Conecta Vídeo (BRASIL)

Lotly Rossenfeld, Francisco Fábregas, Marcelo Ferrari, Eugenio Ditborn, Marcela Poch, Guillermo Cifuentes, Andrés Tapia, Sybil Binstrap-Magali Nuerass, Claudia Rojas, Claudia Aravenas, Nestor Olhagaray (CHILE)

L. Mejía-C. Samper, Gabriela Albrich-Jairo Carrillo, Santiago Echeverey, Margarita Becerra, Harold Trompetero, Pedro P. Ramírez, Guilles Charalambos, José A. Restrepo, Andrés Burbano (COLOMBIA)

Alejandro Leal, Pola Weiss, César Lizarraga, Alberto Roblest, Carlos Salom, S. Álvarez, Marina Sánchez, Teresa Serrano, Miguel Navarro, Paulina del Paso, Héctor Pacheco, Gustavo Domínguez, Sergio Ulloa, Rafael Andrino, Antonio Arango, Domenico Capello, Elías Jiménez (MÉXICO)

Nela Ochoa, Gustavo Morales, J. Antonio Hernández Díez, Nan González, Diana López, Rolando Peña, Leonor Arraiz, Oscar Molinari, Sammy Cucher, Liliane Blaser (VENEZUELA)

arteBA
VIDEO BA97
Videos Argentinos porgramados en ARCO electrónico: Presentación de los videos Vídeo de Otoño de la artista Sabrina Farji, y El borde de la lluvia del artista Marcello Mercado. Ambas obras de los artistas argentinos, fueron exhibidas dentro del programa internacional de videos en la Feria de Madrid ARCO 97. La muestra ARCO Electrónico incluyó en total 15 obras internacionales, bajo la curaduría de Carlota Alvarez Basso del Museo Reina Sofía y de María Palier de TVE.
Coordinador: Carlos Trilnick

Arco se aproxima a los enigmas del arte digital
JOSÉ F. BEAUMONT
Cultura, DIARIO EL PAIS, Madrid España

Opening of ZKM Museum

The project Global Teleconference – Salon Digital

 On Sunday 19 October 1997

 

ZKM_Salon Digital

Lorenzstraße 19

76135 Karlsruhe

Germany

http://zkm.de/en/event/1997/10/goethe-und-die-welt

 20 Goethe Instituts all around the world on the internet, delivering multimedia commentaries on the human image.
The project Global Teleconference – Salon Digital, based on a concept of Australian media artist Jill Scott, celebrated the opening of the media art museum at the Centre for Art and Media – Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany.

Artists contributed images, texts and sound to the web site prior to and during the event, as well as delivering work during the liveCUSeeMe event at the Goethe Institut.

During the evening the Goethe Institut was connected ‘online’ with institutes in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul and the ZKM, Karlsruhe. Local contents included sound, text and image contributions to the ZKM web site, which was being projected locally, whilst simultaneously poetry readings, video and slide projections, text and sound works were all being fed into the CU-SeeMe project. Whilst unexpectedly high traffic levels and demands on the ZKM site provided some difficulty in getting sounds and images from other sites around the world, the  combination of sending works to ZKM and projecting video, the web site and CU-SeeMe made for an exciting and dynamic evening.

This project was an initiative of the Goethe Institut and the ZKM. ANAT provided technical advice and assistance with artist liaison.

http://www.anat.org.au/2010/08/opening-of-zkm-museum/

 http://www.art.net/~dtz//archive/DanceTech97/0732.html

 http://www.modernmonolit.ru/en/articles/article_114.html

 http://www.arsmeteo.org/arsmeteo/main.php?page=evento&id=101&height=640&width=800

 

 

Goethe Institut Buenos Aires:

"There will only be central compartments and solid ducts will be removed. I will reproduce various objects and grisly details. I, minimal-hole in the monstrous construction of the blood. And, isolated, I exalt my most-favored physiological characteristics within my kin, naturally based on genetic laws and according to scientific and rational criteria. I-economic; I-technological. I support my self with cunning and skill. “Here I am”-I tell myself. I am a very vascularized-fibrous-capsule under water processes and its familiar relationships.”
Marcello Mercado

"Sections of Nothing -Nothing "

Netart Project 1997 Argentine

"Sections of Nothing -Nothing "  was a live interactive digital performace celebrating the opening of the Center for Art and Media (ZKM).




Words / Are Recognized As / Boiling Point In Advance /
I Stretch Over Huge Sale Signs / And Signs Advertising /
Therapeutic Properties / My Skin Folds /Are Growing Bigger /
Due To An Excess Of Food Salt / I‚m Maimed-Infected-Enlarged- /
Expanded-Ocluded-Degenerated By / Food Systems That Forge /
A Death Cavity / One‚s A Unique Hole / Infinite-Hole-Tame-Hole/
Marcello Mercado

Other Links:
1.
Wand5 Nominierungen Netart 1999

2.
ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
Goethe Institutes - Global Bodies Event / 15.2.1998 

Global Bodies

http://cms.ferzkopp.net/index.php/media-art/49-global-bodies


Description

1. Are our eyes our Targets?
2. Do we become what we see?
3. How do you think technology will change our body?

Audio Transmission. The Moderator on this end will say "enter Moscow"
at this point you have the floor and he may ask questions or answer
others.
When you finish please say "Moscow Out" Then the floor reverts back to
Moderator.
...this continues "thank you Moscow" "enter Turin" "Turin out" "thank
you Turin"

Short list of commmands:
Want to speak type..................ENTER
Wait for Cue from Moderator says ..............."enter Tokyo"
Begin Speaking..............speak
When Finished ..............speak ..............."Tokyo Out"
Moderator will .............speak................"Thanks Tokyo"

The project Cándido Valdez Cabeza de Vaca (1997) integrates two visions of a common body: Argentina.
( Links recovered by http://web.archive.org/) (Not completely OK)

"Cabeza de Vaca is the nonsense and insensibility of the conveyance of 200 years of history till 1989 (colonisation, military juntas and death). This is the body of Argentina's history perceived as devastation, as appropriation of nature and public space.

Valdez is the present time, since 1989: the (post)modern, (post mortem) age of globalisation, that means Mac Donalds and CNN. He materializes a modern traveller, a sort of dull "Wanderer" through present times and spaces enhancing his trivial mind with information of TV. His entity is not virtual, but medial: he exists through CNN. Both entities (CNN and cows as colonised public land and space) are real: this is not a virtual work."
Gabriela Massuh

Salón Digital fue una teleconferencia Global organizada por el Goethe- Institut
y el ZKM de Karlsruhe con motivo de la inauguración de éste último el 18 de octubre.Desde Boston, Buenos Aires, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Johannesburg,
Madrid, México DF, Moscu, New Delhi, San Francisco, Sidney Tokio,
Wellington, se creó la primera obra de arte en el espacio virtual .
Desde Buenos Aires se produce una obra digital especialmente para esa ocasión.

Mercado(Córdoba) und Jorge La Ferla (Buenos Aires) aus Buenos Aires
entwarfen ein digitales Kunstwerk eigens fuer diese Veranstaltung

"Una investigacion bifronte de la identidad argentina, y la colonización
mediatica del espacio público. Textos intimistas, altamente politizados,
integrados en un grafismo de colores fuertes y motivos simbólicos.
Un panorama cronológico que va de 1955 al 2010"
(Vicente Carretón Cano/Ars Interruptus/Festival de Vídeo de Navarra 1998
pag.148)

3. Arte digital Net.art. Diario Clarín. 02 de agosto de 2002. Buenos Aires. Argentina. [+]

Wand5 1997

Programm
Sonntag 12. Januar

Lupe 2
14 Uhr Marcello Mercado experimentelle Videos
15.30Uhr Patenfilme: eine sehr persönliche Auswahl
von Wand 5 Mitgliedern
18 Uhr Wettbewerb 6 Wiederholung
20 Uhr Jane Campion Kurzfilme (WH)
22 Uhr Link Project, Rifrazioni 2
Auswahlprogramm von Daniele Gasparinetti

Treffpunkt Rotebühlplatz
14 Uhr London Electronic Arts Auswahlprogramm von John Thomson
16 Uhr Jack Smith "Flaming Creatures"
John Maybury "Maledicta Electronica"

Wand 5 e.V.
Friedrichstraße 23 a
70174 Stuttgart
Deutschland

La revolución del video
By Jorge La Ferla, Daniel Veronese,
Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas,
First Muestra Euro-Americana de Videoarte, held at several locations in Buenos Aires, Nov. 11-17, 1996
Published by Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Oficina de Publicaciones, Ciclo Básico Común, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1996
Item notes: 1
Original from University of Texas
Digitized 10 Apr 2008
ISBN 9502903617, 9789502903613
206 pages

Pag.35 and Pag.57

14: VIDEOPOLITIK:
Gavin Hodge,
Max Almy,
Shalom Gorewitz,
Marcello Mercado,
Juvenal Pereira,
Fabio Almeida,
Eva Brunner-Szabo,
Manfred Neuwirth,
Friederike Anders

REIHE VIDEO KUNST
Landesgalerie Linz, Austria
1994 bis 2004

Curator: Gottfried Hattinger

Zehn Jahre lang wurden im Festsaal des Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums Beispiele aus dem Genre der Videokunst gezeigt. Jedem Abend war ein inhaltlich/thematischer Schwerpunkt zugeeignet.

Painting "Flesh as flesh is soft" 1996

Marcello Mercado, Painting "Flesh as flesh is soft" 1996
Photo: Jorge Castro