Ellen Pearlman is a new media artist, critic, curator and educator. She created Noor, an interactive immersive brainwave opera in a 360 degree theater, and AIBO, an emotionally intelligent artificial intelligent brainwave opera.  Ellen is a Fulbright Specialist in Art, Media and Technology, a Zero1 American Arts Incubator/U.S. State Department Artist, a Vertigo STARTS EU Laureate, and a U.S. Alumni Ties/Fulbright/World Learning grantee. While at OpenDocLab, Pearlman is working on Language Is Leaving Me, a work-in-progress investigating epigenetic, or inherited traumatic memory of cultures of diaspora.

Nim Shapira is a filmmaker, creative director and new-media artist. His works range from traditional filmmaking to interactive and XR experiences. He has won Webby, Addy, Clio, Promax, and Lovie awards for his digital campaigns, interactive experiences, XR projects and music videos. While at OpenDocLab, Shapira will be workshopping his VR project ‘The Broom’ (2020 IDFA DocLab Forum). The experience will examine participants’ biases as they step into the shoes of an immigrant art-historian turned street-sweeper and travel 40,000 years of art history.

David Tamés is a documentary media maker working in both traditional and immersive media forms who recently completed Farm and Red Moon, a feature-length documentary investigating humane animal slaughter. He’s a co-creator of Bird Box, a multi-participant AR/VR experience that won Best in Art, Media & Entertainment at the 2019 Reality Virtually Hackathon. While at OpenDocLab, While at OpenDocLab, Tamés will work on a publication titled “Computation as medium and data as material.”

Artemis Willis is a media historian and media arts curator. Her research and teaching focus on media archaeology, early cinema, avant-garde film and multimedia performance, and the long documentary tradition. While at OpenDocLab, Willis is working on her first book, Lanternology: The Magic Lantern and the Possibilities of the Projected Image. She is also developing a digital version of the Keystone 600 Set, a seminal visual-instructional system of corresponding and cross-referring views (lantern slides and stereographs), and creating a hybrid slide-film performance piece.