Anna Ridler is an artist and researcher who works with information and data. She has degrees from the Royal College of Art, Oxford University and University of Arts London. Her interests include drawing, machine learning, data collection, visualisation, storytelling, and technology. She is particularly interested in constructing narratives at the point where quantitative meets qualitative and working with new technologies to help express hidden stories.
Selected Exhibitions
Lumen Prize Winners, Brighton Digital Festival, Brighton, September 2017
Field of View: Storytelling, Exploratorium, San Francisco, September 2017
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, September 2017
Machine Fictions, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, July 2017
Show 2017, Royal College of Art, June 2017
Alternate Realities, Sheffield Documentary Festival, June 2017
Making the Long Tail, RCA White City, June 2017
Art, Science and Quantum Computing, RCA White City, May 2017
Vertigo, IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, March 2017
Codes and Modes, CUNY, New York, March 2017
Becoming, Dyson Gallery, London, February 2017
Experiments in Machine Learning, Royal College of Art, London, January 2017
Narrating the Marginal, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland, December 2016
Spheres of Influence, ACAVA Central Space Gallery, London, November 2016
The Future of Story Telling, Centre for Social Innovation, New York, September 2016
Internet Black Market, Tate Modern, June 2016
Sensory Apparatus, Blitz, Valetta, April 2016
Selected Talks/Workshops
Repeating and Remembering: Fall of the House of Usher, Ars Electronica, September 2017
Join the Resistance, Sheffield Documentary Festival, June 2017
New Forms, BFI, June 2017
Art, Science and Quantum Computing, V&A Museum, May 2017
Action Tells His Story: Language and Machine Learning, Language Games Conference, Chelsea College of Art, May 2017
Fairy Tales and Machine Learning, Data Publics Conference, Lancaster University, April 2017
Speaking in Tongues, IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, March 2017
Media as a Language for Art and Design, Royal College of Art, January 2017
Sensory Apparatus, Ideas That Matter, London, Jan 2016
Building a Narrative, Battersea Arts Centre, London, November 2015
Selected Publications
Degrees
Retelling, Reflecting, Repeating, Recreating: Fairy Tales and Machine Learning in Arc magazine (2017)
Speaking in Tongues: Language and Machine Learning in Syrup magazine (2017)
Alice and Bob in Art, Science and Quantum Computing Catalogue (2017)
Radical Transparency in Spheres of Influence Catalogue (2016)
2015 - 2017 - Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art
2004 - 2007 - English Literature and Language, Oxford University
2003 - 2004 - Foundation degree, University of the Arts London
Awards/Fellowships
Lumen Prize shortlist 2017 (AR & VR)
Google Newslab Fellowship 2017
Best Interactive Experience, Sheffield Documentary Festival 2017 (shortlisted)
Press
"Life drawing and machine learning: An Interview with artist Anna Ridler" in Alphr 14 August 2017
"Something in the air" in Frieze 7 August 2017
"Artificially intelligent painters invent new styles of art", in New Scientist 29 June 2017
"Shef Doc Fest: WikiLeaks A Love Story" on HuffPost, June 2017