Ellen Pearlman is a new media artist, critic, curator and writer who created Noor: A Brain Opera, the world’s first immersive interactive brain opera in a 360-degree theater. Ellen has a PhD from the School of Creative Media, Hong Kong City University, where her thesis was awarded Highest Honours Internationally by Leonardo LABS Abstracts. She is Visiting Research Scholar at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and a Senior Researcher, Assistant Professor at RISEBA University in Riga, Latvia. A Fulbright World Learning Specialist in Art, New Media and Technology she is also an EU Vertigo STARTS Horizon 2020 Laureate, a Zero1 American Arts Incubator Fellow in Kyiv, Ukraine, and a contributing editor to Performance Arts Journal (PAJ) MIT Press. Ellen is also President of Art-A-Hack™ and Director and Curator of the New York Volumetric Society. You can find out more about Ellen’s work here.

Ellen was a Fulbright Specialist with CETE-P in September 2025. She led AI Ecologies: Ecological-Technological Entanglements. Art-A-Hack Rapid Prototyping Workshop, which was funded by J.W. Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic. See more about the workshop in Prague here.

Ellen Pearlman is a new media artist, critic, curator and writer who created Noor: A Brain Opera, the world’s first immersive interactive brain opera in a 360-degree theater. Ellen has a PhD from the School of Creative Media, Hong Kong City University, where her thesis was awarded Highest Honours Internationally by Leonardo LABS Abstracts. She is Visiting Research Scholar at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and a Senior Researcher, Assistant Professor at RISEBA University in Riga, Latvia. A Fulbright World Learning Specialist in Art, New Media and Technology she is also an EU Vertigo STARTS Horizon 2020 Laureate, a Zero1 American Arts Incubator Fellow in Kyiv, Ukraine, and a contributing editor to Performance Arts Journal (PAJ) MIT Press. Ellen is also President of Art-A-Hack™ and Director and Curator of the New York Volumetric Society. You can find out more about Ellen’s work here.

Ellen was a Fulbright Specialist with CETE-P in September 2025. She led AI Ecologies: Ecological-Technological Entanglements. Art-A-Hack Rapid Prototyping Workshop, which was funded by J.W. Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic. See more about the workshop in Prague here.