(In)Visible Cities: Remediating Cats and Catastrophes is a hybrid cross-platform project that began as paired Instagram #Catkind accounts imagining everyday life in sea side villages. Content posted to these accounts remediated images, audio, & video streamed over 10 months in 2024 from Gaza, Ukraine, Noumea, West Bank, Nir Oz. Each image is a record of an event, a person, a loss. The Twine hypertext remediates the Instagram story worlds framing the hypertext i-Doc with a critical essay and a Calvino-esque short story. Midjourney images in the Twine trigger audio and video files layered with Halo AR audio & video.

(In)Visible Cities asks: What does it mean to raze a city in 2025? To want to raze a city? To watch cities being razed via platforms that are accelerating the climate crisis with energy use and the depletion of natural water resources? How do we live bearing witness to ecocide? Domicide? Educide?

Ordinary everyday life in one world twins with the segmented, surveilled, and isolated zones of a shadow city, trapped in what Achille Mbembe termed, “necropolitics.” These zones collide casually, endlessly entangled on social media. Geopolitical distinctions are flattened and sharpened in the juxtaposition of #Caturday and Calls for Action. The fictions of consumer choice and abundance in one world heighten the stark contrast and tragedy of the other, what Giorgio Agamben termed “bare life.” The project was created as a personal mnemonic to remember.