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CV + info + heads-up
photography by Kiran Gidda
I’m a busy person :( but I will aim to reply in 2-3 days! I avoid DMs, so please email me. I mainly work on projects for social good, so before we work together, let’s ask ourselves “who does this project actually help?” Also, I don’t work for free anymore, learnt that lesson :) but I’m up for a value exchange partnership, so hit me up! (mariathandesign@gmail.com) 💌
🇬🇧 UK-based, sometimes I’m in 🇫🇷 France too.
This website is mainly my creative technology portfolio:
- View my digital design, UX/UI and branding portfolio here.
- For Ricebox Studio experience, refer to the Ricebox website.
For my solo Spark AR filter work (Instagram + Facebook AR filters), check out my IG account (mobile only) where you can find all of my active filters (over 23+ million impressions since 2023).
Latest features
Thank you to Nicole Fan from Creative Lives in Progress for interviewing me about my practice and usage of Generative AI within storytelling and heritage (2024)
Thank you to Kish Lal for interviewing me for DAZED Beauty to speak about AI filters and machine learning on social media
Thank you to Martine Hess for interviewing me to speak about Ricebox Studio in Bolder Magazine!
Thank you to Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE and Clara Rosario for having me on the Stemettes’ podcast ‘Say What?’ to speak about AI, NFTs, AR and the metaverse (episode 12). Read my feature here and listen below. ⬇️
Thank you to Jess Herrington for the fantastic interview opportunity where I talk about AI, AR and more as a creative
Thank you to LensList for featuring me as 10 AR artists to follow in August 2022
Thank you to the team at AI x Design for adding my work in a guide about AI images, guide by Catarina Rodrigues, Nadia Piet and Ploipailin Flynn
Thank you to Institute of Coding and Our Sisterhood for featuring me at the Do Good With Digital workshop event! ⬇️
Check out all of the press releases for On Your Side UK, the UK’s first helpline launched for East and South East Asians victims of hate crimes (we designed the website): The Guardian (front page), The Independent, MSN, Yahoo News, Perspective Mag, The National Wales, The Northern Echo, EasternEye, Press 24, Morning Star online, Cumbra Times
Current Favourite
🤳 Medium: Augmented Reality, watch my showreel (2021)
🕊 Technique: Two birds one stone
🛸 Project: Déjeuner sur l’herbe - Jocelyn Charles
🪨 Film: Shaolin Soccer - Stephen Chow
🎶 Music: Kaifuku suru Kizu - Salyu
🥧 Read: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky, check out my fan-made AR cover
Languages
🇬🇧 English, 🇫🇷 French, some 🇻🇳 Vietnamese
Links
🖇️ CV
☕️️ Linkedin
💥️ Instagram
💭️ Medium
Past exhibitions
2024
(Upcoming)DEBUT SOLO EXHIBITION
March to May 2024
“Homage to Quan Âm”
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London
2023
CIRCLE group exhibitionCICA Museum
Gimpo-si, South-Korea
Experimental Film and Video group exhibition
CICA Museum
Gimpo-si, South-Korea
AR mural in collaboration with Elise Conlin for Bhutila Karpoche MPP @ The BIA Junction,
Toronto, Canada
2022
CADAF group showWeb3 NYC Gallery
5th Avenue, NYC, USA
2021
Every Woman Biennial: ShowcaseCopeland Gallery, London
Every Woman Biennial: NFT Showcase
Superchief Gallery NFT, New York
CADAF - Digital Art Month Fair
Paris, France
AR mural in collaboratoin with April Wu for Pinot’s Palette @ The BIA Junction,
Toronto, Canada
2020
Business As UsualDean Clough Galleries, Halifax
Uni to Unicorns: Tate Exchange 2020
"The Period Cloud" @ Ricebox Studios
Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern
2019
FREE RANGEMade in Arts London
Truman Brewery, London
Digital Edge
Somerset House,
London"Festival" Degree Show
BA Graphic Design
Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, London
2018
Digital Edge 2018Digital Catapult, London
Tate Lates 2018
Digital Maker Collective
Tate Modern, 5th floor
Post 2018 Fashion Show
The Bean Collective
Bussey Building, London
CHANNEL the 24h Broadcast
BA Graphic Design
Camberwell College of Arts
Student demo
Lumen Awards x V&A Digital Futures
Camberwell College of Arts
Annual Exhibition
Made in Arts London
TM Lighting Gallery, London
2017
Gutenberg GalaxyBA Graphic Design
The Bear, Camberwell
Mock-Up Fashion Show
BA Graphic Design
Camberwell College of Arts
Workshops + conferences
Selected features
2023
Meet the creative studio using tech for social good, written by Martine Hess for Bolder MagazineAI machine learning TikTok filters are causing errors in our brains, written by Kish Lal for DAZED Beauty
Finalist @ London International Creative Competition
Award in the Create (Art) category
2022
‘Say What?’ podcast episode 12 with Stemettes, hosted by Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE and Carla RosarioYou’re Not As Special As You Think You Are: The limits of human creativity and advances in AI Art, article interview with Jess Herrington in Deloitte Digital
10 AR Filters’ Creators You Should Follow | August 2022, article feature by LensList
Contribution to AI x Design on a guide about AI images, guide by Catarina Rodrigues, Nadia Piet and Ploipailin Flynn
Interview about Ricebox Studio with Radio Bicocca
University of Milan Bicocca
Milan, Italy
On Your Side UK
UK’s first helpline launched for East and South East Asians victims of hate crimes: The Guardian (front page), The Independent, MSN, Yahoo News, Perspective Mag, The National Wales, The Northern Echo, EasternEye, Press 24, Morning Star online, Cumbra Times
2021
These young women are leading the way to period equalityArticle by Smiley News
2020
'Design a Feminist Chatbot' Future Learn courseFeminist Internet and UAL Creative Computing Institute
Video contribution to course
2019
'Building Feminist Voice AI bots', featuring ‘Page’ our team prototypeArticle written by Alex Fefegha
'Feminist Internet: Designing a Feminist Alexa' featuring ‘Page’ our team prototype
Article written by Rhiannon Williams
'Ep.1 Is a Feminist Alexa possible ?'
Feminist Internet Podcast,
Somerset House, London
"The Beta Test"
Article written by Victor Sande-Aneiros
Workshops + talks & conferences
2024
Panellist for AI and design @ Science Museum Lates “AI: Friend or Foe To the Design Industry?”AI, storytelling and heritage @ Autonomous Sheep, HYPHA Studios
Talk on Generative AI and design @ Let’s Talk AI, hosted by Kingston University
2023
Panellist @ The Storyteller and the AI AI Fringe, hosted by UAL and AKO Storytelling Institute, part of Fringe AIAR and activism @ Maryland Institute College of Art
Intro to Generative AI and how to include it in your process
Workshop at London College of Fashion @ BA Critical Practice and Media in Fashion
Periods on Social Media talk @ University of Sheffield
Talk to Nike stakeholders on using digital activism for young people
Hosted by B + A and Nike London
Practice talk to BA Graphic Design students @ Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Practice talk to design and fine art students @ University of East London
2022
Worldbuilding panel at London College of FashionPanellist
Hosted by Kath Melandri
AR + Activism: Artivive AR Summit 2022
Keynote speaker on AR + Activism
Creative Futures Talks: Creative Working Practices and the Pivot
Panellist
University of the Arts London
Festival GenerAzioni
Panellist on Art, design and Activism
University of Milan Bicocca
Milan, Italy
Envisions workshop
Workshop expert on facial recognition, surveillance and deepfakes
Digital Designer Expert: Sisterhood School
Our Sisterhood
Anomaly, London
Alumni practice talk to students in BA Graphic Design @ Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London
2021
UAL CCI: Tech & Power Activism workshopHybrid participant
NOT IN OUR SCHOOLS: Anti sexual harassment campaign
Our Sisterhood x Our Streets Now
Mentor
2020
Screen Walks with Zaiba Jabbarwith The Photographers' Gallery and Foto Museum
Panellist
Do Good With Digital Workshop
Our Sisterhood x Institute of Coding
Digital Mentor
UAL CCI: Draw Using Python Programming
Workshop Host
Online at UAL: Creative Computing Institute
MODUAL: Open Futures
Lead Broadcaster
London
MODUAL: Climate Emergency
Broadcast Researcher
London
What's the Problem with Surveillance
& Facial Recognition? - Panel with Privacy International, Big Brother Watch & CRIN
Panelist @ CRIN
Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern
Uni to Unicorns: Tate Exchange 2020
Co-Creative Producer, Project Lead @ DMC x CRIN
Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern
2019
IAM Conference 19'Workshop Leader @ Interpolate
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
You Are What You Share - Facial Recognition Workshop
with Privacy International and Defend Digital Me
Workshop Host
Hull, UK
Beta Utopia: Tate Exchange 2019
Workshop Leader @ CRIN
Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern
2018
Sonic workshop with Southside Young LeadersWorkshop Leader
Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
DEL Conference
Workshop Leader @ Interpolate
York University, Toronto, Canada
Technology: Tate Exchange 2018
Workshop Leader @ DMC
Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern
MODUAL: Kickstarter 2018
Workshop Facilitator
Somerset House & Glasgow School of Art
Education
2016-2019
BA Graphic Design (First Class Honours)Camberwell College of Arts
University of the Arts London (UAL)
2015-2016
Foundation Art & Design: Graphics (Distinction)Ravensbourne University London
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