Annina Ruest

Annina Ruest (also spelled Annina Rüst) is a Swiss artist-technologist and associate professor at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University. She is known for her work in new media art including software art and electronics-based art. Her works often focus on political issues within tech culture, including gender representation and online privacy.

Biography Ruest attended Zurich University of the Arts, graduating with a Diploma in Visual Communications with New Media Emphasis in 2003. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from University of California, San Diego in 2006 and a Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008. In 2017 she left Syracuse University to join the Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University.

Selected works Ruest began working as a software artist while attending Zurich University of the Arts, independently and as a member of the software art collective LAN. and Discotrope: The Secret Life of Solar Cells, a collaboration with Amy Alexander. Her works often focus on the role of gender in tech culture, including Be Counted, A Piece of the Pie Chart.,, Bad Mother / Good Mother. and Pac-Mom: A game about gender, work, and food insecurity