Voices from the Revolution: A Speak2Tweet Project
On January 27th, 2011 Egyptian authorities succeeded in shutting down the country's international internet access points in response to growing protests. Over one weekend, a group of programmers developed a platform called Speak2Tweet that would allow Egyptians to post their breaking news on Twitter via voicemail despite internet cuts. The result was thousands of heartfelt messages from Egyptians recording their emotions by phone. This experimental film presents selected speak2Tweet messages prior to the fall of the Mubarak regime on February 11, 2011 and juxtaposes them with the abandoned structures that represent the long-lasting effects of a corrupt dictatorship.
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Industrial Narratives: Schoeneweide, Berlin
This project proposes to look at the nostalgia of the machine as a glorified object and investigate the secrets it holds about human desire and ambition. It attempts to regenerate industrial space by preserving the narratives of the original space and redistribute them as fantasies of urban desire. It imposes a questioning of physicality in space not only in the present but also via its past, bridging components of utopian dreams and failed ideologies.
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The Conceptual Tourist
The Conceptual Tourist is a site that provides a place for Egyptians to reclaim their identity through monuments. It addresses the paradox of monuments and memorials as spaces of commemoration that dictate not only how people remember but also what they remember. In the wake of the recent uprisings, this project provides users with a platform to identify their own monuments in Cairo and, in turn, take control of writing their urban story.
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Machine Creatures
Machine Drawings.
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NEWS
08.01.11 Accepted to DEFAULT Masterclass in Residence on Art, Cities and Regeneration that will take place from the 21st to the 30th September 2011 in Lecce (Italy).
08.01.11 Accepted to Platforma11, an interdisciplinary project in Leipzig in September which aims to create an OPEN SPACE process reflecting on the topics “art, politics and education” and their relationship to one another.
05.01.11 "Extraordinary Women From the Muslim World" translated to arabic and published by Dar el Shorouk publishers in Egypt. For more information on the book go to: www.extraordinarywomen.tv or view images here.
03.19.10 I have recently recieved a DAAD Scholarship! More information here.
06.26.09 I have recently recieved a Rhizome Commission Grant! Information on the ten recipients and their proposals here.
EVENTS
24.01.12 - 25.02.12 an excerpt from Voices From The Revolution at Open Systems - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna, Austria for It's in the 'can' curated by Gülsen Bal.
02-09.12.11 My love for you, Egypt, increases by the day, an excerpt from Voices From The Revolution at Pixxelpoint Festival, Nova Gorica/Gorizia Slovenia.
10.11.11 My love for you, Egypt, increases by the day, an excerpt from Voices From The Revolution will be screened in Mizna's Twin Cities Arab Film Festival in the Twin Cities, Minnesota along with the film 18 Days.
08.11.11 My love for you, Egypt, increases by the day, an excerpt from Voices From The Revolution will be screened in "Fluid Spaces", curated by Charlotte Bank, a cooperation between AlFilm Arab Film Festival Berlin and IFA Gallery Berlin. The screening will take place on November 8th at 19:00 at IFA Gallery followed by a Q&A with me.
23.07.11 Projection performance at Industriesalon in Schöneweide. Pics here.
04.06.11-05.06.11 I will be showing work at Macalester College as part of Northern Spark in Minneapolis, MN.
29.04.11-30.06.11 "1256 Stunden Schein" at Industriesalon Schöneweide, Reinbeckstrasse 9, 12459 Berlin
019.02.11 Giving lecture with Professor Mohammed Bamyeh for The Public School Berlin at PROGRAM Berlin: "The Egyptian Revolution and its Historical Context"