Anna Ruth Mayer is a historian of art and technology. She is currently reading for a PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Her doctoral project retrieves the Californian performance artist Barbara T. Smith as a forgotten figure in the cultural pre-history of artificial intelligence.

More broadly, Anna is interested in the place of performance art in histories of computing and cybnernetics.

Anna holds an MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld and a BA in Philosophy and Theology from the University of Oxford.