Ruth Schnell (b. 1956, Feldkirch, Austria) is an artist and curator, and was Head of the Department of Digital Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 2010 to 2023. She began using a computer in the late 1970s, after her colleague, the artist and curator Peter Weibel, acquired a number of Commodore 64 computers for the university’s art department. Her earliest computer works were short films created in collaboration with Gudrun Bielz. Schnell’s work was included in the 14th Bienal de la Habana, Havana (2022); and the 46th and 44th Biennale di Venezia (1995, 1990). It has also been presented in recent exhibitions at the Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing (2019); and ZKM, Karlsruhe (2019). Schnell lives and works in Vienna.