Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East

Custom software, high school history textbooks, 2016-2018.

Project: Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East

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A function draws rectangles in different sizes with different offsets on a canvas.

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The rectangles are used to cut into Israeli history textbooks in order to identify patterns in settler colonial pedagogy.

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All textbooks contain a single image from 1948, of Al Nakba, the ongoing Palestinian catastrophe.

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Through cutting into the textbooks, the image is made visible to provide opportunities for self study.

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Presented at:
  • Art+Code Showcase, Dunkunsthalle, New York, NY.
  • Branding Conflict, Space 204 Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.