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, 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

Selected Performances

AGENCY, Nome Gallery, Berlin, October - December 2018 (upcoming)

Post Truth: Algorithmic Superstructures, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, October - November 2018 (upcoming)

The Line Up: The Power of Drawing, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, September - November 2018

Touching from a Distance: Transmediations in the Digital Age, Literhaus, Berlin September - October 2018

Error, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, September 2018

Artificially Intelligent, V&A Museum, September - December 2018

Gradient Descent, Nature Morte, New Dehli, August - September 2018

Measures of Life, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, July - September 2018

Traces of Things, Blitz Gallery, Valetta, March 2018 (solo show)

Trajectories, Watermans Arts Centre, London, January 2018

NIPS Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, Long Beach, California, December 2017

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

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

Internet Black Market, Tate Modern, June 2016

Sensory Apparatus, Blitz, Valetta, April 2016

Into the Forest, BBC Late Junction, July 2018

Nature's Nickelodeons, Sheffield Doc Fest, June 2018

Drawing with Sound, NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, May 2018

Speaking in Tongues, IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, March 2017

Residencies

Selected Talks

Selected Workshops

Impakt Artist in Residence, EMAP/EMARE, Utrecht, April - June 2018

Blitz Residency, Valetta, Feb - March 2018

Data and Training Sets in an Artistic Practise, European Conference of Computer Vision, September 2018

Art in an Age of Computational Creativity, Forecast Forum, HKW, May 2018

The Artistic Potential of Computer Vision, ZKM, April 2018

Deep Fake or Rendering the Truth, Impakt Festival, April 2018

Deep Fake or Rendering the Truth, European Media Art Festival, April 2018

The Art of GANs, Photographers Gallery, Feb 2018

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

Drawing Sound, MetaMarathon, NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, May 2018

ART+FEMINISM Wikipedia edit-a-thon, Blitz, Malta, March 2018

How Machines and Humans See, Watermans Arts Centre, Feb 2018

Things inside and out: augmented reality, Konstfack University, Jan 2018

Building a Narrative, Battersea Arts Centre, London, November 2015

Selected Publications

Education

Repeating and mistranslating: the associations of GANs in an art context in the proceedings for 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), Long Beach, CA, USA.

Retelling, Reflecting, 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)

2018 - 2019 - Visiting scholar, Leeds University

2015 - 2017 - Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art (MA)

2004 - 2007 - English Literature and Language, Oxford University (BA)

2003 - 2004 - Foundation degree, University of the Arts London

Awards/Fellowships

EMAP Fellow 2018

DARE Art Prize 2018-2019

Press