Ellen Pearlman (PhD School of Creative Media Hong Kong City
University), New Media Artist, Curator, Critic, and Writer is a Research Fellow at
MIT, Director of ThoughtWorks Arts, a Senior Research Assistant Professor at RISEBA
University, Latvia, a Fulbright Specialist in Art, New Media and Technology, a Zero1
American Arts Incubator/U.S. State Department Artist, and a Vertigo STARTS (EU)
Laureate. She created “Noor: A Brain Opera” in a 360 degree immersive interactive
theater as part of her doctoral thesis, which was awarded Highest Global Honors by
Leonardo Labs Abstracts. In February 2020 she premiered “AIBO: An Emotionally
Intelligent Artificial Intelligent Brainwave Opera” at the Estonian Academy of
Music, and showed it at Vertigo STARTS DAYS in Paris, France. Ellen also invented
the Art-A-Hack (TM) creative collaboration methodology and runs rapid prototyping
workshops around the world. Her new work “Language Is Leaving Me: An Opera Of the
Skin” investigating AI, epigenetic memory, biometrics and computer vision is being
developed while at MIT.
