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

Her research practice questions the spatial, aesthetic, and epistemic conditions of digital Earth representations, including geographic information systems, climate models, and remote sensing technologies. More broadly, she is interested in how computational infrastructures mediate physical and digital environments. Her research methods include environmental analysis, computational design, mapping, modeling, writing, data visualization, software engineering, and web development.

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