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)