Ellie Madsen

Ellie Madsen is a NYC-based researcher, software engineer, and designer working at the intersection of media, computation, and the environment.

Her research practice questions the spatial and epistemic conditions of digital Earth representations, including geographic information systems, climate models, and remote sensing technologies.

Ellie is currently a Research Assistant at the Climate Impacts Group and an Adjunct Research Scholar at the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.

Education

M.Sc. Computational Design Practices, Columbia GSAPP

B.A. Environmental Studies, B.A. Computer Science, Brown University

Work

Software Engineer, Pinterest

Graduate Research Assistant, Climate Impacts Group

Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

Graduate Research Assistant, Polar Geophysics Group

Environmental Data Analyst, Providence Office of Sustainability

Writing

Embedding Earth: A Critical Atlas of Planetary Computation , Master's Thesis, awarded GSAPP Writing Prize

Reading the Hypercity: Post-Structuralism and Sense-Making in Navigable Space , URBAN Magazine (digital and print)

Sounding the Tree of Life, Are.na Annual (forthcoming)

Operational Aesthetics of High Dimensional Planetary Space , Society for the Social Studies of Science (forthcoming)

Sonifying Pinna nobilis: Transcoding Tidalectic Measurement and Myth, Sensing Matters: Bard Graduate College Symposium

Pre-Colonial Forging, Post-Industrial Foraging: Seeking Stories of Production on the Seekonk , The Forager

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