Maithu Bùi is a việt-German philosopher, research activist and artist. After studying philosophy of language, logic and literature at LMU Munich, Maithu Bùi has been studying art at University of the Arts Berlin in the Lensbased Class since 2017. Their research and work focuses on Creative Technologies, Ethics of Technology, Memory Culture, War History, (Digital) Colonialism, Context Sensitivity, Truth and Belief Systems, Education Policy and Anti-discrimination. Their work Maithuật – MMRBX (2019-ongoing) is an AR/VR archive of personal memories and transgenerational traumas. Stories begin and end where ghosts can be encountered in a virtual việt-german diaspora. Their work Biolum Thunder Sweep is an anti-war project to eliminate mines and explosive remnants of war using bioengineering.

Maithu Bùi co-founded Curating through Conflict with Care (ccc) and works at the German Informatics Society in the Sustainable and Digital Education Department.