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Presenter, Politics of Machines (POM), Aachen, Germany

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New Works Program Artist In Residence Grant, Harvestworks, NY

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Appointed Visiting Research Scholar at NYU Tandon School of Engineering @ The Yard

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Inclusion in updated Women Art AI Art site

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Language Is Leaving Me - makes it into Top 50 Immersive Experiences of 2023

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How To Build A "Sicko" AI: AIBO - An Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligence AI Brainwave Opera

 

World Premier "Language Is Leaving Me - An AI Cinema Opera Of the Skin" at Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw Poland

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Video lecture of work-in-progress of "Language Is Leaving Me, An AI Opera Of the Skin" at Cyfest, 15, Yerevan, Armenia

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CripTech/Leonardo Exhibition E.E.A. T. Exhibition at Beall Center, Los Angeles produced with Thoughtworks Arts

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STS Italia '23 full paper presentation on the use of AI in "AIBO", Bologna, Italy

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University of Warsaw Poland Tumblr on 'AI Art In A Time of War' as outcome of Fulbright Research Scholar award

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"Noor" a Brain Opera cited in Technologies as a Mediator between Creator and Audience in Postmodern Art Practices, BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience

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AIBO—An Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligence Brainwave Opera—Or I Built A "Sicko" AI, and So Can You" in Information Disorder - Algorithms and Society published by Routledge Books


Workshop Participant, "AI and Algorithmic Justice" MIT/Harvard MeTAL Lab

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University of Warsaw Center for Systemic Risk Analysis - Presentation on "Language Is Leaving Me" and visual AI

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Leonardo Peer Review Panel, Leonardo Journal, MIT Press

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"Uploading Into Eternity", Review of Michael van der Aa's "Upload" in PAJ, MIT Press

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Course on Artificial Intelligence Art at The Faculty of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Science at the Warsaw University, Poland

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AIBO: An Embodied Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligence Brainwave Opera - Proceedings of the Workshop on the Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human & Human & Artificial Creativity (TREPHAC 2022) co-located with the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2022)

Presenter, NOWNET Arts Conference 2022, Stony Brook University/Stanford University

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Presenter, RIXC 5th Renewable Futures Conference: SPLINTERED REALITIES, Riga, Latvia

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Presenter, RISEBA University 30th Anniversary Conference

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Panelist, The Future of Opera, metaLAB, Harvard University (including video)

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Contributor, HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence, NOEMA, European Commission

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External Advisor, RASL Project (Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab), EU

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Erasmus+ Grant, to Tallinn University

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Peer Reviewer, The Journal New Design Ideas, Jomard Publishing (Scopus Ranked)

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DANCEDEMIC In A Pandemic - A New Network Reality - Journal of Network Music and Arts
 

Keynote Speaker, 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity ICCC'22, Bolzano, Italy

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Fulbright Scholar University of Warsaw, Poland

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Signatory, AI and Human Rights, US Office of Science and Technology Policy

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Noor and AIBO Mention In Immerse News (MIT) Top Projects

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Reimagining American Cultural Diplomacy in War & Pandemic - Horasis USA Meeting 2022

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Panelist, Improvising the Net(Work), CounterPulse San Francisco

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A Co-Lab On Cyborg Arts listed in ERIC.gov website

 

Forbes Magazine Article on ThoughtWorks Arts

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STARTS EU Exhibition

 

Fulbright Lecturer Polish Japanese Academy of Information Technology Warsaw, Poland

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Fulbright Lecturer Laznia Center For Contemporary Art Gdansk, Poland

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Fulbright Lecturer Lalka Nova Conference Academy of Theater Arts Wroclow, Poland

 

Fulbright Specialist - Polish Japanese Academy of Information Technology Warsaw, Poland

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Masterclasss on AI, XR and Beyond - MPLab Liepaja University

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Mentor Showcase Creating TechArt - US Embassy Singapore, Prohelvetia Swiss Arts Council, Goethe Institute Germany, BeFantastic India

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Interview on Team Human Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

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Presenter RIXC Festival Open Fields - PostSENSORIUM, Latvia

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Keynote Speaker The 6th International Conference of the European Narratology Network, Latvia

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Presentation, Ars Electronica 2021, "Co-Creation Containers" 

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Exhibiting Artist, ICCC'21, Mexico City, on-line

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The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Art Creation,IEEE MIPR 2021, Art  presentation

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Catalogue, "Towards Meta Garden"  Gwangju Design Biennale 2021, Gwangju Museum South Korea

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Interview about "AIBO" - The Theatre Times

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Mentor Talk- Creating TechArt - US Embassy Singapore, Prohelvetia Swiss Arts Council, Goethe Institute Germany, BeFantastic India

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Workshop exhibitor RSS 2021 Workshop on Robotics x Arts

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Listed on STARTS.EE website

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Review "Brain Art: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression" International Journal of Arts and Technology

 

Artist Talk - BCI and Art Workshop @ BCI Society Meeting, Netherlands - online
 

Invited Artist, 12th International Conference On Computational Creativity, ICCC'21 Mexico

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Accepted paper and demo SIGCHi ACM IMX2021 - The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

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Invited Speaker Demo Presentation CVPR 2021 Computational Measurements of Machine Creativity

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Partner, CripTech Incubator, California Council on the Arts, Leonardo/ISAT

 

Featured Artist For AIBO, Artificia.Pro

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Guest Speaker "Zoom In OLAP" HarvestWorks and Experimental Intermedia

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Panelist Archive/Counter Archive, MIT Open Doc Lab

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The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Art Creation, in conjunction with IEEE MIPR 2021, accepted paper

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Ellen Pearlman appointed MIT Fellow

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Selections from "AIBO: An Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligent AI Brainwave Opera" part of the AI Art Gallery NeurlPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design 2020

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Leonardo - "Is There A Place In Human Consciousness Where Surveillance Cannot Go? Noor: A Brain Opera

 

AIBO entered into Networked Performance Library

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Ars Electronica - Life During (and After) Covid-19 - Artistic Strategies and Breakthrough Responses

 

Baltan Labs Report: A Hybrid Hack On Synthetic Matter

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Ellen Pearlman and Douglas Rushkoff: ICT Meets the Arts - Baltan Labs

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ICT Meets the Arts - Baltan Labs

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Baltan Labs Master Class "Deep Fakes Synthetic Media and Synthesis

 

ThoughtWorks Arts in New York Times "Dances With Robots and Other Tales From the Outer Limits"

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NowNetArts - "Running a Remote AI Livetime in the Cloud for an AI Brainwave Opera​"

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Peer Reviewer Leonardo Magazine

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Dance For Transformation "DANCEDEMIC" on Medium

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Artistic Guest - TEST/BREAK Columbia University Digital Storytelling Lab

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Keynote speaker NordiCHI

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ISEA 2020 Montreal - Full paper presentation on AIBO

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AI Comes of Age in Performance Art Journal (PAJ)

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Women+ ART AI Founding Member

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Life During and After Covid-19 - Artistic Strategies and BreakThrough Responses - The GRID/EUNIC

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DANCEDEMIC presented at The GRID/Ars Electronica

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DANCEDEMIC Performances Online

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Forced Online, The Battery Dance Festival Brings the World to You

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Art-A-Hack, Battery Dance, ThoughtWorks Arts

 

Announcement of "Art-A-Hack" in Battery Dance Festival in Broadway News

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Director Art-A-Hack Special Edition Covid-19, "DANCEDEMIC"

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Presentation of American Arts Incubator Projects YouTube

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American Arts Incubator Kyiv, Ukraine Community Projects

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Speaker - Future Everything, Arts Council England

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TEST/BREAK – new program at Columbia University explores the development of virtual works

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Video about AIBO from Vertigo STARTS Residency Days, Paris France

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Art Hack Practice review

 

Presentation of AIBO at Vertigo STARTS Days Paris, France at Centquartre

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AIBO World Premier at Estonian Academy of Music blackbox theater

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Sneak peek AIBO an emotionally intelligent artificial intelligent brainwave opera in the making

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Keynote speaker World Usability Day Estonia 2019


Art Hack Practices, Routledge Press, Chapter 11 - "Cyborg Arts Co-Lab"

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U.S Alumni TIES - Arts, Culture and Transforming Conflict Grantee, U.S. State Department

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Vertigo STARTS Residency Blog for AIBO

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Zero1 American Arts Incubator/U.S. State Department Cultural Envoy to Kyiv, Ukraine 2020 Lead Artist

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Vertigo STARTS Residency begins

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Elected Member AICA-USA, International Society of Art Critics, US Chapter

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Interview Yale Radio

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Paper Presented Open Fields 2019 Latvia

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Paper Presented, ISEA 2019 Korea

 

Co-Author of OUTPUT: Translating Robots and Human Movers Across Platforms in a Sequentially Improvised Performance at ASIB 2019, Falmouth, UK

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Vertigo STARTS Laureate, Horizon 2020 EU

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MediaN Journal of the New Media Caucus - Reframing Innovation: Art, the Maker Movement and Critique

 

Paper Presented at College Art Association, New Media Caucus on "Reframing Innovation"

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Appointed Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher RISEBA University of Business, Arts and Technology, Riga, Latvia

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Contributing Editor, PAJ (Performance Arts Journal) MIT Press

 

Paper Presenter ISCHMA Hong Kong

 

Peer Reviewer, Leonardo Journals

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 Media-N The Journal of the New Media Caucus Reframing Innovation: Art, the Maker Movement and Critique

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ELLEN PEARLMAN: BRAIN OPERA, TELEMATIC PERFORMANCE, AND DECODING DREAMS

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Featured Artist/Scholar, Archive of Digital Art

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Lecture at ITMO University, and Smolny College, St. Petersburg State, Russia

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Clot Magazine interview

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Artist Residency, Quartariata Arts and Technology Center, Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Leonardo LABS Abstracts Top Ranked Thesis Globally 2018 for "Noor, A Brain Opera"

 

Presentation of Emotionally Intelligent AI and BCI - Art-A-Hack Special Edition

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Member, Digital Storytelling Lab, Columbia University

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The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART features ELLEN PEARLMAN

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Autodesk article on Noor: A Brain Opera - "2 Heads—and a Brain-Computer Interface—Are Making Waves in the Art World"

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Conference Committee and Co-Chair RIXC Art Science Festival, GLOBAL CONTROL, Riga, Latvia

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International Scientific Review Board, Renewable Futures Conference, Alto University, Finland

 

Presenter, 3rd Annual Global Conference on Posthuman Ethics, NYU

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External Thesis Reviewer, IDM, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Article in Russian Journal of Communication about "Noor: A Brain Opera

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Panel presenter, Fred Forest and The Politics of Institutional Discrimination, White Box

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Panel presenter, Breaking Boundaries, VR and Immersive Story Telling, St. Francis College

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Curator and Presenter - Special Projects - SPRING/BREAK Art Show, with HarvestWorks/ThoughtWorks Arts

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Awarded Artist Residency, QuartaRiata Residency of Arts and Technology, Peterhof, Russia

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Guest Curator and Workshop Leader, Art-A-Hack, Special Edition Cyfest, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Guest Lecturer MEDIT, Tallinn University Center of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture, Tallinn, Estonia

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Collaborator, Enactive Virtuality Reality Research Group, Tallinn University, Estonia

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Lecturer, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Presenter, Worlding the Brain, University of Amsterdam

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Feature article in WomenCinemakers, Berlin

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Parson School of Design Article on Ellen Pearlman - Hack the Brain

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Selected Artist Presenter, NetGain Partnership

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CLOT Magazine - ThoughtWorks Arts Residency: Leveraging Corporate Resources for Art & Social Change

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Parsons/New School mentions Cyborg Arts Co-Lab

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Gates Foundation Magazine Article on Cyborg Arts Class at Parsons

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Parsons MFADT Article on Fulbright World Learning Specialist Grant

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Fulbright World Learning Specialist

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c-opera.net - Contemporary Opera On "Noor"

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Women Cinemakers Official Selection

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Co-Chair, RixC Art Science Festival, Riga, Latvia

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Creative Tech Week NY - Biometrics and Immersion - 3 Views

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Creative Tech Week NY - Lightening Talk

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66 Brilliant Women in Creative Technology

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Codes and Modes: Reframing Reality, Virtuality and Non-fiction Media

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Research Roundtable, Creative Collaboration: Pioneer Works

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Hack the Brain Science Gallery Trinity College, Dublin Ireland

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Hack the Brain Science GalleryTrinity College Dublin Ireland Video

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Director ThoughtWorks Arts Residency

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Faculty Parsons/New School

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Reviewer ISEA 2017 Manizales, Columbia

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Emotiv Newsletter - Noor: A Brain Opera

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CREATORS PROJECT - World's First 'Brainwave Opera' Is A Mind F*ck

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Lecture from HOPE XI - Is The Brain The Next Hackable Driver?

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Signal Culture - Research Residency

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ICLI 2016 "Is There A Place In Human Consciousness Where Surveillance Cannot Go?"

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ICLI 2016 Peer Reviewer

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Finalist, Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant - for the blog Planet 3D

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Microwave International New Media Arts Festival Hong Kong "Noor A Brain Opera"

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"Noor - A Brain Opera" ISEA HK art projects

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International Program Committee, ISEA 2016 Hong Kong

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Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research Degree Students, 2015-16

City University of Hong Kong

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