Anna Ridler

Anna Ridler is an artist and researcher who works with systems of knowledge and how technologies are created in order to better understand the world. Particularly, she is interested in ideas surrounding the natural world. Her process often involves working with collections of information or data, particularly datasets, to create new and unusual narratives.

Anna Ridler’s piece, Anno Oxypetalum is part of her broader exploration of plants’ chrono-biological clocks, by which they bloom and close at fixed times of day.

Although deeply inspired by generative artists, Ridler is also influenced by the land and environmental artists of the 60s and 70s, whose works were meticulously planned out in advance, but where the natural elements - water, wind, light - also act upon these plans to create the final pieces. In Ridler’s case, the natural or biological elements are the neural nets that she uses to create.