Ellen Pearlman

Ellen Pearlman is a New York based media artist, curator, writer and educator. An Affiliate Research Professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering  @ the Brooklyn Navy Yard, she was awarded a three-year grant as a guest artist by German Culture Foundation for a collaboration with Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen (MiR.LAB) under the direction of Nora Krahl to work on a new AI opera, “The System Cannot Fail”.  She is also a member of the London-based Alan Turing Institute’s AI and Art working group, as well as a participant in the MIT Co-Creation Lab partnership with the human rights organization Witness on Documentary AI.

Ellen was previously an artist resident at both Mir Lab and Dock 11 in Germany. A New Works Artist Grantee at Harvestworks in New York City she has been a presenter at Ars Electronica Expanded Animation festival in Linz, Austria, a Lumen Prize finalist in AI Moving Images, a Research Fellow at MIT, A Fulbright Scholar to the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at The University of Warsaw, Poland, a three-time Fulbright World Learning Specialist in Art, New Media and Technology, an EU Vertigo STARTS Laureate (Horizon 2020), a Zero1 American Arts Incubator/U.S. State Department cultural envoy to Kyiv, Ukraine, and a Fulbright Alumni Ties grantee. A Senior Research Associate Professor at RISEBA University in Riga, Latvia she was a Contributing Editor to Performance Arts Journal (PAJ) MIT Press. She received her Ph.D. in Digital Media from the School of Creative Media at Hong Kong City University where two out of three years she was awarded the department’s outstanding academic achievement award. She premiered her brain opera “Noor”, the world’s first  immersive interactive brainwave opera in a 360 degree theater at ISEA Hong Kong and Microwave International Festival, HK. Her PhD thesis, “Is There A Place In Human Consciousness Where Surveillance Cannot Go?” was awarded the highest global ranking from Leonardo LABS abstracts.