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Born | Caracas | February 8, 1977
Nationality | Venezuelan |
Movement | Digital Art and New Media Art |
Yucef Merhi (born February 8, 1977) is a Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer based in New York. [1]
Yucef Merhi was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied at Universidad Central de Venezuela, New School University, [1] and holds a Master's in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. [2]
Merhi has produced a variety of works that engage electronic circuits, computers, video game systems, [3] 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. [4] The resulting artworks expand the limitations of language and the traditional context of poetry.[ citation needed] 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." [5]
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Yucef Merhi | |
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Born | Caracas | February 8, 1977
Nationality | Venezuelan |
Movement | Digital Art and New Media Art |
Yucef Merhi (born February 8, 1977) is a Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer based in New York. [1]
Yucef Merhi was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied at Universidad Central de Venezuela, New School University, [1] and holds a Master's in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. [2]
Merhi has produced a variety of works that engage electronic circuits, computers, video game systems, [3] 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. [4] The resulting artworks expand the limitations of language and the traditional context of poetry.[ citation needed] 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." [5]