Ellen Pearlman, a New York based artist, writer, curator and critic is a Ph.D. researcher and Instructor in Creative Media at Hong Kong City University, and visiting scholar at Parsons/New School University in New York.

 

Ellen is Director and Curator of the New York Volumetric Society, President of Art-A-Hack(TM), and Artistic Adviser to the Yuanfen Gallery gallery of new media in Beijing, China. She co-founded the first Summer Institute in Telematic Art with Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Videotage to create an internationally linked global interactive telematic performance while FUSE Digital Artist in Residence at Videotage.

 

Ellen has lectured at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia as part of Cyberfest, and collaborated on digital projects with the Meropolitan Museum of Art's Media Lab. She was on the Art Panel Review Board for SIGGRAPH ASIA in Yokohama, Japan, a panel judge for ISEA New Mexico and presented her work at ISEA Istanbul, New Mexico, Dubai, Vancouver and Transmediale Berlin.

 

Ellen has a black belt in Taijitsu (Ninja) under the auspices of Black Belt Hall of Fame Ninja Master Shidoshi Steven Hayes. She is a member of The International Association of Art Critics and listed in the current edition of Who's Who in America.

 

A Professor of Information Science at Columbia University's CTA Program for 13 years Ellen also taught in the M.A. Program in Digital Design at Parsons School of Design, the New School University, and CUNY, New York. She was Director of Research for Basex., Inc., a boutique technology analyst firm and has authored two books on programming, one on XML for McGraw Hill, and one on SVG for Prentice Hall. She also wrote the first book on Tibetan Sacred Dance in the English language.

 

The book "Nothing And Everything"- The Influence of Buddhism On the American Avant-Garde 1942-1982, and that I was a two-time finalist for the Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant. Her blog on technology and art is at http://artdis.tumblr.com