Month: March 2022

Allison Tanenhaus (she/her) is a New York–born, Boston–based digital glitch artist. She specializes in bold geometrics, kaleidoscopic color fields, trippy op art, thought-provoking truisms, anachronistic tech mashups, and unexpected dimensional qualities. Her primary formats include retrofuturistic GIFs, loops, and music videos; abstract public art; street art cat stickers; and large-scale video projections.

Source material consists of Allison’s original images, collected artifacts, and crowdsourced clips that she alters via smartphone. Made with equal parts deliberation and experimentation, the results are rainbow-hued compositions that take on a psychedelic life of their own. At a time when platforms pervasively cull personal data, she views creatively reclaiming files and devices as a radical act of autonomy, mindfulness, and personal ownership. Also looks way cool.

Allison’s work has been showcased in 16 countries via galleries, public art, media festivals, and guerrilla street art postings. Notable commissions and exhibitions include the ICA Store at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, SaveArtSpace, “GlitchKraft: Allison Tanenhaus + Friends,” and “Empowered Women Empower Women,” curated by Paris Hilton.

Allison is a grantee of the 2019 Somerville Visual Art Fellowship and the 2021 City of Boston Transformative Public Art Program. She is a member of electronic music group The Square Root of Negative Two and optical installation duo bent/haus.

Allison’s video work is featured in the Carole Calo gallery. You can check out her work below.

Spectralia (Set 1 Left)

Distortions II

Glitchfield

Darth Presley wanted to Rock in the worst way, so he exposed himself to a lethal dose of radiation while listening to “King Creole.” Now he has mastered Rock! But at what cost? Now accompanied only by his pet Snickerdoodle Clambake and those itinerant musicians too psychotic or mutated to care about random fissioning, he wanders the globe seeking to expose new audiences to his apocryphal sounds!  

Excerpts from Darth Presley’s album ME7ROPOL17AN 7RANSPOR7A71ON AU74OR17Y are featured in the Carole Calo gallery. You can check listen to the entire album on Bandcamp or Spotify.

ME7ROPOL17AN 7RANSPOR7A71ON AU74OR17Y on Bandcamp:

ME7ROPOL17AN 7RANSPOR7A71ON AU74OR17Y on Spotify:

Eric is a Boston-based electronic musician, performer, composer, and tinkerer. Armed with a BFA in Music Technology (that he swears was going to be more useful than it ended up being), and a love for synthesizers and chiptunes, Eric spends his free time pressing buttons that make noise.

Eric Halin’s video work is featured in the Carole Calo gallery. You can check out his work below.

Gameboy x OP -1 Jam

Jam #6: Ambient, Rainy, Peaceful

Jam #11: Back in the Saddle

Herbert Brün (1918-2000) was a composer, pioneer of electronic and computer music, and cybernetician. Born in Berlin, Germany, he left in 1936 to study at the Jerusalem Conservatory, studying composition under Stefan Wolpe. He was later invited by Lejaren Hiller to join the Center for Advanced Computation at the University of Illinois from 1963-64. At the conclusion of this residency Brün joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where he taught until his retirement.

The graphic score to Brün’s Floating Hierarchies: Set 3 is featured in the Carole Calo gallery. You can check out his work below.

Anepigraphe

Sonoriferous Loops, Op. 32