Return to Sender is an interactive installation and workshop in the post office, inviting the audience to sort through years of undelivered mail coming out of the Gaza Strip.
It features short letters and reviews published by Gazan guides about local places they once visited. The work aims to uncover the less visible layers of the Israeli siege on Gaza. It maps ordinary people’s lives in the strip, in hopes of recreating alternative geographies of Gaza prior to the beginning of its violent destruction in October 2023.

The work was presented as part of Un/Besieged, a microfestival by first year M.A. students in Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College. 

Public Talk for Reviving Deleted Cities: Jaffa & Gaza at Pakhuis De Zwiger, Amsterdam, NL 

This hybrid project, comprised of an interactive, web-based installation and research article, examines how “history’s first livestreamed genocide” in Gaza has been presented on TikTok LIVE. The work explores these streams, characterized by their low viewership as well as scattered and disorienting nature, arguing that they reshape our understanding of “livestreamed genocide” as a historical media paradigm. The installation foregrounds the tensions between a gamified platform and the realities of war on the Gaza Strip, centering the role of the streamers who tactically navigate TikTok's bans and biases. In doing so, the work examines the uneasy rise of TikTok’s algorithmically-driven platform, particularly its livestreaming function, as a space where social media visibility and atrocity merge, clash, and are reshaped by the logic of public engagement.

You are not here is a durational interactive installation that explores the experience of being misrepresented or omitted from typical maps. It invites audiences to engage in counter-mapping by pinning locations on an interactive map map. The map has no labels, and the pins are not geo-tagged but placed in a grid over the traditional map.

As time passes, the pins gradually eat away at the original map, creating a new version that no longer relies on the optics of colonial mapping.

This project was first conceptualized as a final year capstone project for the Interactive Media program at NYU Abu Dhabi and was later exhibited at Ars Electronica’s 2023 Campus Exhibition in Linz, Austria and Festival X’s NEXT GEN Exhibition in Dubai, UAE.

IM_CAPSTONE_final_FINAL: What Lies Beyond? (Abu Dhabi, May 2023)

Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition (Linz, September 2023)

Festival X NEXT GEN Exhibition (Dubai, October 2023)

“You think it’s somewhere near the end of the Earth. You think there is absolutely no way you can get to it. Do you see how close it is? How touchable? How real? I can hold it in my hand like a handkerchief” — Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah

Performed by the Mahicantuck riverside, Between Banks is a mixed reality recollection of a moment by the Jordan river in my teenage years.

The work reflects on the colonial violence that bodies of water endure, with a focus on Zionist violence and exploitation of the Jordan river. It draws on conversations with visitors of the Jordan River, readings into the Palestinian and Jordanian water insecurity, and the words of Mahmoud Darwish and Mourid Barghouti. 

an ode to sweet disposition,
openFrameworks
2021

song:
Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap

an ode to sweet disposition, is an interactive software art piece that visualizes abstract emotions related to memory and remembering, such as nostalgia, bittersweetness, and longing.