The Work of Art in the Age of Hacking

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YUCEF MERHI | Seminario Fundación Cisneros 2018

Yucef Merhi presents several of his “Datagram” projects, in which data he has hacked is reorganized as artworks. According to Merhi, hacking, as an art form,...

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Excerpt of an interview by Kader Attia for the documentary "The Message is the Medium", presented at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2019)

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MARGINALIA #30

Every month Marginalia invites an artist, curator or project to provide a series of images that will serve as the background of Terremoto, in relation to their practice and current interests. At th…

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Bos, Saskia. “If Walls Had Ears. 1984-2005.” Amsterdam: De Appel (2005)

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Green, Rachel “Internet Art” London: Thames and Hudson (2004)

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>Soulless Security is an installation in which the full names and identity numbers of the officials of the PNB (Bolivarian National Police of Venezuela) are revealed and displayed as a datagram. It was made by Yucef Merhi in 2017.

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Interior Security (2016) is a data-based installation comprised by the incoming and outgoing emails of the former Minister of the Interior of Peru, Daniel Lozada.

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> Kingpin (I,II,III) is a series comprised by 3 individual modules. Each transparent Plexiglas box holds a collage made with information obtained from the database of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. It was made by Yucef Merhi in 2014.

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>Divine Security (666) is a mural of all the people born the same day as Hugo Chávez, the former late President of Venezuela. It was made by Yucef Merhi in 2010.

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Supernumerarios is an interactive web work that shows the ID numbers of all the Presidents that have ruled Venezuela since 1935. The data was obtained from a secured database. It was made by Yucef Merhi in 2009.

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Minimum Security is an immersive installation that displays the Venezuelan Social Security Numbers or ID numbers of all the Venezuelan people born on February 4. It was made by Yucef Merhi in 2006.

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Mission Taliban is a a VR computer game that Merhi started to program in October of 2001 as a response and reflection to the WTC tragedy. It was made by Yucef Merhi in 2002.

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After hacking the website of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas, Merhi created the first Salon of Digital Art in Venezuela and South America. It was made by Yucef Merhi between 2000 and 2004.

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I Hacked Damien Hirst is a cultural action where Merhi hacked into Damien Hirst's work and obtained control . It was made by Yucef Merhi in 2000.

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Maximum Security is an immersive installation that displays the personal emails of the late President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. It was made by Yucef Merhi between 1998 and 2004.

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Security is massive data visualization based on sensitive data from CANTV, the largest telecommunications company in Venezuela. It was made by Yucef Merhi in 1998.