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Interactive Web-based Installation
Practical Component of MA Thesis Created as part of State of Fracture: MA Thesis Exhibition 2025 at the Center for Human Rights at the Arts at Bard College
2025
Interactive Web-based Installation
Practical Component of MA Thesis Created as part of State of Fracture: MA Thesis Exhibition 2025 at the Center for Human Rights at the Arts at Bard College
2025


Photos by The Center for Human Rights and the Arts
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.

Stills from the interactive web installation

Stills from the interactive web installation

Photo by The Center for Human Rights and the Arts

Photo by The Center for Human Rights and the Arts