Ellen Pearlman

Ellen Pearlman lives and works in New York as a media artist, curator and educator. She is a research fellow at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and receives a grant from the Harvestworks NY programme. Her work has been presented at festivals and symposia such as Expanded Animation and Ars Electronica. Dr Pearlman is also a Senior Research Assistant Professor at RISEBA University in Riga, Latvia, and an editor of the Performance Arts Journal (PAJ) published by MIT Press. As a finalist in the Lumen Prize’s ‘AI Moving Images’ category and director of ThoughtWorks Arts, she has been recognised for her contributions to art and technology. She was a research fellow at MIT, a Fulbright scholar at the University of Warsaw, and has been recognised on several occasions as a Fulbright World Learning Specialist in art and new media. She was also honoured as an EU Vertigo STARTS award winner and took part in the US Department of State’s Zero1 American Arts Incubator programme in Kyiv. Dr Pearlman obtained her PhD in Digital Media from the School of Creative Media at Hong Kong City University. Her so-called ‘brain opera’ *Noor* was presented at ISEA Hong Kong and at the Microwave International Festival. Her doctoral thesis, *Is There A Place In Human Consciousness Where Surveillance Cannot Go?*, received international acclaim. Her brainwave opera ‘AIBO’ premiered at the Estonian Music Days Festival and was presented at the Vertigo STARTS Days in Paris. In October 2023, she staged the world premiere of the AI opera ‘Language Is Leaving Me’ at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw.