Ellen Sebring is Creative Director of the Visualizing Cultures project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She develops original content and media approaches for digital humanities focusing on image-driven scholarship using visuals from the historical record. Sebring earned a Masters degree at MIT and is currently pursuing the PhD as part of the Planetary Collegium, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA), at the University of Plymouth, UK.
As President of Botticelli Interactive, Inc. for six years, Sebring produced large-scale new media projects for museums, expositions, and interactive television, including award-winning non-linear documentaries. A video artist and filmmaker, Sebring composes for image and sound and frequently collaborates with choreographers.
images, top: MIT Visualizing Cultures, middle: Botticelli Interactive, Inc., bottom: video art