Alya (b. 1992, Saudi). An interdisciplinary research-based designer, artist. She often displays her work in an analog tangible format, making a contrast with her digital code-based process. With her interest in the modern shapes of social and geopolitical structures her latest works discussed the representation of the East from the Western perspective and the creation of otherness. She investigates the future of the Islamic identity in the age where we depend on AI systems to identify whats right.
She holds an MFA degree in Design and Technology from Parsons school of Design, and a bachelor degree in Graphic Design and Multimedia from the Design college at University of Dammam. Currently, a lecturer at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, College of Design.