Yucef Merhi (born February 8, 1977) is a Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer based in New York. Early life Yucef Merhi was born in Caracas, 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; *Bronx Museum of the Arts; El Museo del Barrio; Eyebeam Art and Technology Center Exit Art, Newark Museum Orange County Museum of Art, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art 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, Ljubljana 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 Arts References External links 1977 births Living people People from Caracas Venezuelan male poets Venezuelan artists New media artists Venezuelan contemporary artists Art curators Electronic literature writers