Marcvs
Where research becomes work: painting, cryptoart, literature and sound.
My artistic practice investigates the fantasies culture projects onto machines. In Portraits of the Basilisk, I ask an obsolete generative model, running locally and unfiltered, to show what it looks like, and I paint by hand what it returns: the singularity as eschatology with an engineering vocabulary. In sound, Osasco Dynamics imagines a dystopian tech company in full decline. In cryptoart, I use the blockchain as language and as archive, a permanent and dubious memory. These are cartographies of the technocracy: image, sound and text as strata of the same territory.
Painting & Cryptoart
Finalist for the Ibero-American Visual Arts Prize CERLALC/UNESCO, 2023, with an exhibition in Bogotá.
Portraits of the Basilisk 2026
Digital paintings made from images produced by an obsolete generative model, running locally and unfiltered, with prompts that ask rather than direct. The singularity as eschatology with an engineering vocabulary.
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Sound
I’ve been producing electronic music since 2009, across electro, house and techno. As Missiles at a Wedding, I released EPs on Step In Recordings and TRNQR and appeared on the Hy Brazil Vol. 4 compilation, featured by Spin. With Victor Lucindo, I created Osasco Dynamics, a dystopian, satirical corporation in record form, reviewed by The Wire. The latest singles, Pouco Grave and Sem Sinal (feat. DJ Desisto), pave the way for an EP.