Ellen Pearlman (US) is a New York based media artist, curator, writer and critic. She is a Visiting Research Professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and a New Works Artist Grantee at Harvestworks in New York City a Senior Research Assistant Professor at RISEBA University in Riga, Latvia and a Contributing Editor to Performance Arts Journal (PAJ) MIT Press. She was also a Research Fellow at MIT, A Fulbright Scholar to the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at The University of Warsaw, Poland, a two-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. Ellen received her Ph.D. in Digital Media from the School of Creative Media at Hong Kong City University. She premiered her brain opera “Noor”, a fully immersive interactive brainwave opera at ISEA Hong Kong and the Microwave International Festival, HK. Her PhD thesis, “Is There A Place In Human Consciousness Where Surveillance Cannot Go?” was awarded highest global ranking from Leonardo LABS abstracts. “AIBO”, her second new media opera was an emotionally intelligent artificial intelligent brainwave opera premiered at the Estonian Music Academy’s state of the art black box theater, and was presented at Vertigo STARTS Days in Paris, France one week before the pandemic lockdown. She premiered her third new media opera, “Language Is Leaving Me – An AI Cinematic Opera Of The Skin” at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, Poland on October 7, 2023.

Talks

• Dr. Ellen Pearlman: Language Is Leaving Me: Epigenetic memory in multilingual visual and verbal AI