#geomedia

BLDGBLOG: Geomedia

You Are Not Here (.org) is a platform for urban tourism mash-ups. It invites participants to become meta-tourists on simultaneous excursions through multiple cities. 
By holding a two-sided map to the light, meta-tourists can find their way through Gaza walking the streets of Tel-Aviv. They locate the You Are Not Here signs in the street indicating they have arrived at an important tourist destination in Gaza City and providing the telephone number for The Tourist Hotline. Calling the number and entering the site-specific access code provides the meta-tourists with a guided audio tour of that destination by Gaza resident and blogger, Laila El-Haddad.
Laila will show you around her city and uncover the mysteries of the ancient baths, Souk al-Zawya and The Great Omari Mosque. Walk through the Park of the Unknown Soldier, visit the PLO Flag Shop, the Saraya Prison and Kathem’s ice cream parlor.
You Are Not Here attempts to expose the contrasts and similarities between two cities. Gaza City and Tel Aviv are politically involved while emotionally and socially detached from one another. The cultural tendencies within Israel have resulted in the public denying their roles as the occupiers and a disengagement from responsibility to the occupied. You Are Not Here hopes to challenge this detachment and re-engage individuals by providing a mediated, one-to-one, human-scale experience. http://www.youarenothere.org