PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Anna Ridler

Anna Ridler is a London-based artist and writer who uses machine learning to examine how naming, classification, and financial speculation shape what people see. She studied English literature at Oxford and information experience design at the Royal College of Art, then built a hand-labeled tulip dataset behind Mosaic Virus, an AI-generated video tied to Bitcoin prices. She received the DARE Art Prize and coauthored a 2023 paper on public AI literacy through art. In 2025, she shared the ABS Digital Artist of the Year award with Sofia Crespo and exhibited Time Blooms in Seoul. Her 2026 exhibition A Perfect Language of Images was shown in Oxford.

Works
4
Citations
46
h-index
1

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2004–2007

    Oxford literature degree

    She completes a BA in English Literature and Language at Oxford University in 2007.

  2. 2015–2017

    An information design degree

    At the Royal College of Art, she earns an MA in Information Experience Design in 2017.

  3. 2017

    Machine learning as art material

    She begins working with machine learning as an artistic material in 2017 and builds handmade archives and datasets to examine naming, classification, and financial speculation.

  4. 2018

    Myriad and Mosaic Virus

    In 2018, she builds Myriad (Tulips) from thousands of hand-labeled tulip photographs. The data train Mosaic Virus, an AI-generated video whose flowers shift in color, shape, and movement with Bitcoin prices.

  5. 2018–2019

    DARE and Ars Electronica honors

    She wins the DARE Art Prize and becomes a European Union EMAP fellow in 2018. In 2019, she receives a Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention in the AI & Life Art category.

  6. 2023

    AI literacy through art

    In 2023, she coauthors “AI in the Public Eye: Investigating Public AI Literacy Through AI Art,” a FAccT paper about how AI art can build public AI literacy.

  7. 2025

    Time Blooms and the ABS award

    In 2025, she and Sofia Crespo share the ABS Digital Artist of the Year award. Her solo exhibition Time Blooms is shown at Buk Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul.

  8. As of October 2026

    Artist and writer in London

    She is a London-based artist and writer. In 2026, A Perfect Language of Images is shown at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in Oxford.

Career

Education

  1. 2017Royal College of ArtMA in Information Experience Design
  2. 2007University of OxfordBA in English Literature and Language

From the biography.

Most-cited works

  1. AI in the Public Eye: Investigating Public AI Literacy Through AI Art2023 · ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) · 46 citations
  2. AI and Art, the Future is Now2021 · The new real magazine. · 0 citations
  3. AI in the Public Eye2023 · The new real magazine. · 0 citations
  4. AI is Human After All by Anna Ridler and Caroline Sinders (2019-2021)2021 · The new real magazine. · 0 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

  1. The median h-index is 54 at universities and 20 at frontier AI labsIncludes University of Oxford. The median h-index is 54 at universities and 20 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, citations and moves to estimate how universities and frontier labs contribute to AI research.
  2. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes University of Oxford. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  3. Stanford University trained or employed 27 of the 111 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University of Oxford. Stanford University trained or employed 27 of the 111 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and employment links for major-prize and best-paper winners.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Oxford. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.

Sources and credits

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  1. Anna Ridler | Artist annaridler.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. Anna Ridler | Artist annaridler.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. Mosaic Virus 2018 (2018) | Anna Ridler annaridler.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. Mosaic Virus & Myriad (Tulips) (2018) | EMAP — European Media Art Platform emare.eu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. AI in the public eye: Investigating public AI literacy through AI art - University of Edinburgh Research Explorer research.ed.ac.uk. Checked 18 October 2026.