Ellen Pearlman is a New York based media artist, curator, writer and critic. She is a Visiting Research Scholar at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and  a New Works Artist Grantee at Harvestworks in New York City, a peer-reviewed presenter at Expanded Animation, Ars Electronica, a Senior Research Assistant Professor at RISEBA University in Riga, Latvia and a Contributing Editor to Performance Arts Journal (PAJ) MIT Press. A Luman Prize selection in AI Moving Images, Ellen served as the Director and co-founder of ThoughtWorks Arts, a global research and innovation lab that includes the well regarded ThoughtWorks ArtsResidency. 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 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. 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, one of the three top art/science centers in Europe. Ellen is also Founder and President of Art-A-Hack(TM), and Director and Curator of the New York Volumetric Society. During her doctoral studies she was a Visiting Scholar at Parsons/New School University in New York. Previously she co-founded the first Summer Institute in Telematic Art with the University of Calgary, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Videotage HK to create an internationally linked global interactive telematic performance while FUSE Digital Artist in Residence at Videotage. Ellen has lectured on the future of opera at the MetaLAB at Harvard University and on new media at both the Hermitage Museum and ITMO University (the MIT of Russia) in St. Petersburg, Russia as part of Cyberfest. She curated and has shown work at SPRING/BREAK Independent Projects (part of Armory Week), ISEA, the Microwave Festival, The RIXC Festival, Harvestworks Electronic Arts Festival, and collaborated on digital projects with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Media Lab.