Dr. Anne Luther is a specialist for digital heritage and a digital humanities scholar. Her work applies technology, design and humanities research for the interaction, exploration and opening of cultural heritage preserved and represented in digital data. She is the founder of The Institute for Digital Heritage and Principal Investigator for Digital Benin, leading the development of a digital platform which brings together rich documentation from collections worldwide to provide a long-requested overview of the royal artworks looted in the 19th century from the Kingdom of Benin.

She holds a PhD from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, where she developed a pioneering interactive data visualization software for qualitative research. Between 2013 and 2015 she brought a research focus in data driven humanities research to the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping and between 2015 and 2018, she established an emphasis on the analysis of museum data, leading data sprints, workshops, international research collaborations and software development as research coordinator at the Center for Data Arts at Parsons School of Design in New York. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for 2021-22 at the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at UPenn and is a Senior External Advisor at Lenfest Center for Cultural PartnershipsSenior External Advisor at Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships at Drexel University in Philadelphia. In 2023 she and her Digital Benin team received the Apollo Magazine award for Digital Innovation.

She secured grants for the Museum am Rothenbaum, MARKK (2.6mio Euro by the Mellon Foundation and 1.5mio Euro by the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung), Chair of Modern Art History at TU Berlin (30k Euro by the VW Foundation) and Fordham University ($30k by the NEH) amongst others. She taught Art Theory as a TA for Professor Boris Groys at NYU between 2014 and 2017 and translated his book Logic of the Collection published with MIT Press/Sternberg Press (2021). She worked in several arts institutions internationally including MoMA PS1, the House of World Cultures, Front Desk Apparatus and for Antonia Josten Art World Recruitment. 

As a project director for Digital Benin, her work has been featured in The Financial Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Art News, The Art Newspaper amongst other local and international news outlets. She was selected as an expert on Digitization, digitization strategies and digital collection management for the MuseumsLab, a platform for joint learning, exchange and continuing education regarding the future of museums in Africa and Germany, financed by the German Federal Foreign Office in close cooperation with the African consultancy group The Advisors. She is frequently invited to present and consult on digital strategies in museums, team management in digital projects and data-driven research and collaborates with digital research projects world wide.