Ellen Sebring

Ellen Sebring earned the SMVisS degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the PhD at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts (CAiiA) at Plymouth University in the UK. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at MIT, Creative Director of MIT Visualizing Cultures, and Post-Doctoral Associate at Duke University. She contributed essays on Civilization & Barbarism at the turn of the 20th Century and the Boxer Uprising to Visualizing Cultures, and co-developed three MOOC courses based on Visualizing Cultures content. Sebring researches visual narrative and the syntax of images in an age of global digital archives, and developed a Virtual Reality app that envisions immersive archival narratives. Sebring co-authored, with Elizabeth Goldring, the first major book on CAVS, released fall 2019, Centerbook: The Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the Evolution of Art-Science-Technology at MIT (SA+P Press and ZKM Karlsruhe, distributed by MIT Press). From 1995-2002, she was President of Botticelli Interactive, Inc., producing interactive documentary, television, and museum designs with an emphasis on nonlinear stories and content. Her video art work explores image-sound composition and deconstructed narrative.