Creative Technologist, Co-Founder at Ricebox Studio, Digital Designer at CRIN, and Digital Design Lecturer at UAL/University of Greenwich
Maria Than is a creative technologist, educator, and designer. She explores fragmented identity, Buddhism, and escapism through AR, illustration, moving image, and creative AI and is co-founder of the award-winning Ricebox Studio and a Digital Designer at Child Rights International Network.
She teaches digital and purpose-driven design, creative AI and AR at University of Greenwich, Central Saint Martins, in schools and communities, and exhibited internationally, with work shown in London, Paris, Barcelona, New York including Tate Modern and V&A Lates. In 2024, she launched her debut solo art show Homage to Quan Âm, commissioned by arebyte Gallery, as part of the Hotel Generation 23’24 residency.