Eye of the Sand was featured in the Campus Exhibition at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria as part of the SENSE_ERR exhibition by the NYUAD Interactive Media program.

The festival recorded more than 122,000 visitors and we had a huge number of visitors to our exhibition. Congratulations to all the students in the SENSE_ERR exhibition and all the faculty and staff!

Eye of the Sand

Hasibur Rahman (BD), Q M Naushadul Islam (BD), Mariam Abdelrazek (EG), Ahmed Bilal (PK)

A short video of a desert installation—a glowing eye embedded in sand. It watches without movement, offering a presence that is neither machine nor myth. The desert becomes a sentient witness to time and passage, suggesting that even silence holds memory.