Maria Than
Desktop Tour

Desktop Tours is a series that invites artists from arebyte Gallery’s yearly programme to talk through their computer or laptop desktop, including key folders, bookmarks, and software they use in their work.

The artists talk about the work produced for their exhibition at arebyte as well as new content they are working on, their processes, past experimentations, and a look into their virtual mind.

In this Desktop Tour, Maria Than invites us into her computer to look at early material from the installation.

Maria Than’s exhibition Homage to Quan Âm is open at arebyte until 19 May 2024: more info HERE.

Facilitated and edited by Marc Blazel.

Marc Blazel is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in moving image, installation, live-streaming and web theory.

Maria Than is a UK-based creative technologist, educator, activist & co-founder of Ricebox Studio. Using Augmented Reality, illustration and AI-generated content, she explores themes of fragmented identity, buddhism, over-productivity, internalised racism and mental health and exhibited in London, Paris, New York, South Korea, Amsterdam and Toronto. She lectures in design, creative and ethics of AI and works at Child Rights International Network as a Digital Designer.

This video was made in conjunction with the exhibition Homage To Quan Âm by Maria Than.

The exhibition runs 29 March – 19 May 2024
Part of arebyte Gallery’s 2023/24 programme The Body, The Mind, The Soul