Yucef Merhi (born February 8, 1977) is a Venezuelan 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

Yucef Merhi was born in

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

, Venezuela. He studied at Universidad Central de Venezuela, New School University, and holds a Master's in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University.

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 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ''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."

Exhibitions

New Museum of Contemporary Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Scho ...

; * Bronx Museum of the Arts;Holland Cotter
''Latino Art, and Beyond Category''
''The New York Times'', Sept 2, 2005. *

El Museo del Barrio El Museo del Barrio, often known simply as El Museo (the museum), is a museum at 1230 Fifth Avenue in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is located near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, immediately north of the Museum of the Cit ...

; * Eyebeam Art and Technology CenterAnette Gallo
''EYEBEAM ANNUAL ONLINE FORUM The (Re) Structured Screen''
, ''Rhizome Digest'', October 31, 2002. * Exit Art, * Newark MuseumNewark Museum
NewarkMuseum.org. Retrieved on July 10, 2014. * Orange County Museum of Art, California * Los Angeles County Museum of ArtLos Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA.org. Retrieved on June 16, 2012. * De Appel (Amsterdam); Haus der Kulturen der Welt *Museo Michetti, Rome *Borusan Culture & Art Center, Istanbul; Paço das Artes *Museo del Chopo, Mexico DF *Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Yucatán, Yucatán *Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas (Caracas); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo *Science World, Vancouver *7th International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia *2007 Bienal de São Paulo – Valencia *10th Istanbul Biennial and the 30th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts.

Permanent collections

*Orange County Museum of Art California *National Art Gallery, Caracas * Library of Congress, Washington *Mednarodni Grafični Likovni Center MGLC, LjubljanaMednarodni Grafični Likovni Center
. Museums.si. Retrieved on July 10, 2014. *Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas *Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas *Museo de Arte Valencia Valencia

Awards

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

References

External links

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