On Losing Meaning

Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama, Okayama, Japan, 2024
Maknana: An Archaeology of New Media Art in the Arab World, Diriyah Art Futures, 2025

Robotics, sand.

An evolved iteration of On Losing Meaning, first staged in 2021 as a pigmented robotic body shedding script through movement. Here the body returns bare, set down on a bed of sand. As it moves, it traces slow figures into the surface — searching for meaning by drawing rather than by shedding, writing itself into the ground with every pass.

Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama

Okayama, Japan, 2024
Artistic Director: Yuko Hasegawa

Maknana: An Archaeology of New Media Art in the Arab World

Diriyah Art Futures, 2025
Curated by Dr. Haytham Nawar and Ala Younis

Photos: Kenryou Gu, Artur Weber