Yucef Merhi (born February 8, 1977) is a

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n artist, poet and computer programmer based in New York.Carlo Zanni
''INTERVIEW WITH YUCEF MERHI''
, Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal's online magazine, No.18, 2004.

Early life and education

Yucef Merhi was born in

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, Venezuela. He studied at Universidad Central de Venezuela,

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, and holds a Master's in Interactive Telecommunications from

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Art career

Merhi has produced a variety of works that engage electronic circuits, computers, video game systems, touch screens, and other devices in the presentation of his written words. One example is ''Poetic Clock'', a machine that converts time into poetry, generating 86,400 different poems daily. The resulting artworks expand the limitations of language and the traditional context of poetry. His 2012 commissioned work for the

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, ''Quetzalcoatl 2.0.1.2.'', was a web-based work that "aims to reveal the voice of Quetzalcoatl in the technological reality of 2012 A.D." In 2025, Yucef Merhi's work is featured in ''2025 Intertidal'', the biennial digital art exhibition organized by the Pérez Art Museum Miami video art streaming platform, known as PAMMTV. 2025 Intertidal showcases the work of five

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artists working across digital media.

Permanent collections

* Orange County Museum of Art, California *

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*National Art Gallery, Caracas *

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, Washington *Mednarodni Grafični Likovni Center MGLC, Ljubljana *Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas *Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas *Museo de Arte Valencia Valencia

Awards

In 2020, Yucef Merhi was awarded the MIT Open Documentary Lab Fellowship. He is also a recipient of a

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in Digital/Electronic Arts.New York Foundation for the Arts
. Nyfa.org. Retrieved on November 20, 2011.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Merhi, Yucef 1977 births Living people Writers from Caracas Artists from Caracas Venezuelan male poets Venezuelan artists New media artists Venezuelan contemporary artists Art curators Venezuelan electronic literature writers