Mariya Li

I am honored to mark this milestone in my career: on March 13, I received the UK Alumni Award in the Culture and Creativity category for the development and coordination of the Multimedia Sciences bachelor’s program at .mms . This achievement reflects a sustained commitment to establishing a multidisciplinary curriculum with a strong emphasis on applied design. I extend my gratitude to and for supporting professional growth and to for the academic foundation that has shaped my leadership approach.

Stem + Arts = STEAM.
My students created this fan using Fusion 360 and laser cutter, helped them with the decorative part. Engineering is not all about structures, tolerance and mechanisms, the artistic side is also should be developed. We understand art intuitively, emotionally processing the colors, shapes and the energy that the artifact radiates, it comes to us naturally: you love it or don’t. The structural part, on the other hand, is helping us to hold this world in a rigid position, like a Cartesian plane, it helps with the explanations, giving the answers, brings the meanings. When the two come together, it is a pure Paranoid Critical Method, explained by Dali, yet todays context is also bringing one other layer to this process - the viewer. The artifacts have their parallel lives in the digital world, both analog and a digital copy can be sold separately, splitting like the Milligan’s personalities, they are continuing their existence in the same place, but different universes. However, both presented to the viewers in the context of social media, the exhibitions, meta verses, markets, and lecture presentations. Moving from one state to another the art is assigned new meanings. Moreover, the observer depends on the point of the perspective, like in the relativity theory, is recreating the completely new art piece. Again, as we know from physics, the colors do not exist, our brain interprets it from the input information provided by the eyes. Here is the dilemma question, if you are completely created this fan, when looked at it, who owns the artifact?
Ps: got intrigued by the True Banksy video :)