Artist and researcher, Anna Ridler’s practice focuses on machine learning and systems of knowledge to better understand the world around us. TShe is particularly interested in ideas around measurement and quantification and how this relates to the natural world. Her process often involves working with collections of information or data, particularly datasets, to create new and unusual narratives in a variety of mediums and how new technologies, such as machine learning, can be used to translate them to an audience.
Her artworks often looks into the connections between nature and technology. Through processes that take inspirations from the former and latter, Anna highlights the commonalities between the human and the algorithm.
Born in London, Ridler holds a MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art and a BA in English Literature and Language from Oxford University along with fellowships at the Creative Computing Institute at University of the Arts London (UAL). Ridler’s work has been exhibited widely across cultural institutions worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Barbican Centre, Centre Pompidou, HeK Basel, The Photographers’ Gallery, the ZKM Karlsruhe, and Ars Electronica, Sheffield Documentary Festival and the Leverhulme Centre for Future Intelligence.
Along with Sofia Crespo, Anna Ridler was awarded the 2025 ABS Digital Art Prize in the Artists of the Year category.
“I think for me, technology is an extension just like any other tool. It is still just a way of working and a process of constructing and understanding the world that we live in.”, Anna Ridler
