Egyptian Dinosaur/Video art / '1'05' /2016

In 2016, Egypt was ranked among the fifteen slowest countries in terms of internet speed. Many Egyptians spent more time trying to connect than actually using the network. For Google Chrome users, disconnections often led to playing the offline dinosaur game a simple animation in which a prehistoric creature jumps over cactus plants in a desert landscape.

This project transforms that familiar game into a looping animation by replacing the cactus obstacles with objects and landmarks drawn from Egyptian culture. These include the green downtown fence previously explored in Green Limitation, as well as the Cairo Tower, the Saqqara Pyramid, the Maspero building, street ditches, and other urban features.

At a time when much of the world depends on constant connectivity, many Egyptians were still navigating extremely limited internet speeds. By relocating the prehistoric creature into a contemporary Egyptian setting, the work highlights the contrast between global technological narratives and local daily realities, using humor and repetition to reflect on frustration, delay, and infrastructural inequality.