YASMIN ELAYAT

A contemporary revival of the culturally extinct Egyptian theater box storytelling tradition that traveled Cairo's streets with live performances. Commissioned by Mahatat For Contemporary Art. (2014)

18DaysInEgypt is a collaborative web-documentary about the ongoing Egyptian revolution. The project is supported by the Tribeca New Media Fund grant and Ford Foundation, was selected by the Sundance Institute New Frontier Lab, received an Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities Category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2012, and recently named one the Moments of Innovation in Participatory Documentary by MIT Open Documentary Lab & IDFA DocLab. (2011)  

Tell the story together. GroupStream is a tech-startup I co-founded in 2011. It's the group storytelling platform powering 18DaysInEgypt.

Public store-front interactive video installation that watches people as they pass by. Collaboration with Ganzeer. D-Caf Festival 2013. Press: PRI, Ahram Online. (2013)

A series of collaborative experimental workshops and site-specific exhibitions between Kazoosh and our art collective OpenLab Egypt in February and April 2013.

An experimental, interactive video installation where people user their facial features to make music. Exhibited in the Di-Egy Festival. (2013)

A tongue-in-cheek installation that reimagines a smart phone using out-dated found objects gathered in a Cairo flea market. By our art collective OpenLab Egypt for the CynetArt Festival. Photos courtesy of David Pinzer. (2013)

The success of 18DaysInEgypt's on-the-ground outreach team, lead to the establishment of a citizen-journalism incubator EJP: The Egypt Journalism Project (2013)

A series of six synchronized, interactive glass displays in HP's Executive Business Center in Cupertino, California. For more information on the project visit Potion. (2009)  

Campus-wide community bulletin boards where Rhode Island School of Design students and staff can express themselves and keep up to date with events. For more information on the project visit Potion.  (2009)

The first-of-its-kind spatial audio guide for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust which automatically syncs with interactive and streaming video content around the museum, in addition to providing audio guide information for museum objects. For more info on the project visit Potion. Recognition: AAM Muse Awards. Photos courtesy of Potion (2010) A

An interactive gallery of 18 concentration camps for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. For more info on the project visit Potion. Recognition: AAM Muse Awards. Photos courtesy of Potion (2010) AAM Muse Awards

Part of The Museum of Science and Industry's You Exhibit, Create An Ad allows visitors to create and watch their own ads, while learning about the tricks of the trade. For more information on the project visit Potion.  (2009)

An on-going personal project of mine. A Friday Lunch is an animated collaborative documentary project about my family's oral history told by three-generations of women in my family.

Video Installation that captures traces of people who pass by and creates a breathing, living painting. Max/MSP Jitter (2007)