|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ellen Sebring has been Creative Director of the Visualizing Cultures project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since its inception in
2002. A multimedia producer and video artist, Sebring holds a Master's degree
in Visual Studies from MIT, where she was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced
Visual Studies for six years. Visualizing Cultures received the National
Endowment for the Humanities award in 2005 and MIT’s Class of 1960 Innovation in Education award in 2004, has toured the US and
Japan, exhibited at Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Pacific Overtures” on Broadway, and is in the permanent collection of the National Archives.
Co-founder and President of Botticelli Interactive, Inc. for seven years (1997-2002), Sebring produced "Star Festival," awarded Best of
Show at MacWorld Expo and "StarNetwork" starring George Takei, awarded the
Distinguished Award of the Multimedia GrandPrix 2000, Tokyo. The company
received funding from the Institute for Civil Society to create an interactive
television prototype to enhance creativity in children. For museums, Botticelli
Interactive produced educational touch screen kiosks, including the innovative
Titian Kiosk, which earned the New York Festivals’ Silver Medal.
Sebring was selected for the American Film Institute's prestigious Directing
Workshop for Women to write and direct a movie in Hollywood. She has directed
over 30 documentaries on visual artists, dance and theater. In 2004 she
received a co-production residency at the Banff Centre, Canada to compose music
for a collaborative work with choreographer Paula Josa-Jones. Sebring and
Josa-Jones have produced many dance-video works, including TILT, which was staged at MIT and exhibited at the World Wide Video Festival in
Holland in 2007. Other awards and grants include the Artist's Foundation
Fellowship for Video Art, Canon Europa prize at the WorldWide Video Festival in
Holland, and PBS, NEA, NEFA, Meet-the-Composer and NEFV Foundation grants.
Sebring's video art includes “Aviary,” a multimedia performance at MIT’s Media Lab funded by National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Council for
the Arts, which was subsequently commissioned by WGBH and WNET for national
broadcast. Trained as a composer and flutist at Indiana University (where she
earned a Bachelor of Music) and the Hochschule fuer Musik und darstellende
Kunst in Vienna (where she performed with the Austrian Radio Orchestra (ORF))
Sebring explores the relationship of sound and image in her work.
Contact: sebring@mit.edu
|
