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# Tom Tenney

Words, Radio, Sound, Art

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- [Off the Grid](https://www.tomtenney.com/2011/12/19/off-the-grid/) - Profiles of three of my favorite art stars: Don Eng, John King, and Walter Gambin - 'outsider' artists for whom performance serves as a way to navigate their lives. Special thanks to Reverend Jen for providing some miraculous VO which pulled everything together for me. As always, I recommend listening with a good set of
- [Reunion](https://www.tomtenney.com/2011/12/20/reunion/) - This piece, created for the Deep Wireless Festival, is an audio document my trip back to Boston for my high school reunion. I recorded several hours of the trip before, during, and after the reunion, and what emerged from the piece was a personal reflection on friendship and aging. As always, please listen with a
- [Wall of Lies](https://www.tomtenney.com/2020/12/11/wall-of-lies/) - In fall of 2020, in the weeks before the presidential election, I collaborated with visual artist Phil Buehler on the “Wall of Lies,” a 50-foot by 10-foot outdoor mural with the 20,000+ lies told by Donald Trump while in office, documented and fact-checked by The Washington Post. The piece was originally shown in Bushwick, Brooklyn,
- [The new black box has global reach](https://www.tomtenney.com/2014/11/12/the-new-black-box-has-global-reach/) - The following article was originally published in the East Villager News In 1961, Ellen Stewart revolutionized the New York performance scene when she opened Café La MaMa in the basement of an East Ninth Street tenement. The African-American fashion designer-cum-impresario imagined the new space as an alternative to popular Off-Off Broadway venues like Caffe Cino
- [We Want the Airwaves: An Investigation into Pirate and DIY Broadcasting](https://www.tomtenney.com/2011/12/15/we-want-the-airwaves-an-investigation-into-pirate-and-diy-broadcasting/) - The following is a radio piece about the state of DIY and pirate radio broadcasting, particularly as it exists in large urban areas like NYC. It explores the history and motivations for DIY broadcasting, examines the migration of DIY broadcasters from the airwaves to the internet, and what effect the recent passage of the Local
- [Crises of Meaning in Communities of Creative Appropriation - A Case Study of the 2010 RE/Mixed Media Festival](https://www.tomtenney.com/2016/04/12/crises-of-meaning-in-communities-of-creative-appropriation-a-case-study-of-the-2010-re-mixed-media-festival/) - I was asked The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies to contribute a chapter about my experiences and observations as director of the RE/Mixed Media Festival, which I produced every year from 2010-2014. My chapter documents a crisis of legitimation between industry and artist, but also one of meaning within the remix community itself. The book
- [The Impact of Digital Technologies on Chomsky’s Media Ownership Filter](https://www.tomtenney.com/2010/10/20/the-impact-of-digital-technologies-on-chomskys-media-ownership-filter/) - In their 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman posit a theory of “systemic propaganda” in which the mass media control content in order to serve the ends of the dominant elite. The ingredients of this model are five “filters” used to censor content, which consist of concentrated media ownership, advertising, government news
- [The Politics of Media Ownership in Remix Culture](https://www.tomtenney.com/2008/10/28/the-politics-of-media-ownership-in-remix-culture/) - In Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky outlines 5 filters through which the dominant elite is able to control the media and regulate information. They are: concentrated ownership, the influence of advertising, reliance on information from the government, flak (backlash) and “anticommunism” as a control mechanism[1]. Nowhere does he cite direct government control (i.e. regulation by legislation)
- [The Role of The Daily Show in Speaking Truth to Power](https://www.tomtenney.com/2009/04/09/the-role-of-the-daily-show-in-speaking-truth-to-power/) - On the November 5th, the day after Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, Jon Stewart asked his audience on The Daily Show “How are we gonna make this shit funny?” Stewart stepped into the role of host of the show in 1999, the tail end of the Clinton administration, but for the past 8
- [Tracking Political Participation Among The Colbert Report Audiences](https://www.tomtenney.com/2009/05/14/tracking-political-participation-among-the-colbert-report-audiences/) - Since the mid-90’s, proponents of the Internet have championed the new technology as a reviver of democracy, a way for individual voices to be heard in a political landscape where politicians increasingly favor their own interests over of the people they are elected to represent. In 2001, Pierre Lévy wrote, in Cyberculture, True electronic democracy
- [Art Stars: The Children of Jack Smith](https://www.tomtenney.com/2009/08/01/art-stars-the-children-of-jack-smith/) - This is a short, 9-minute microdocumentary that I made last spring for my Art/Core class at the New School. The basic thesis is that cinema - underground films from the 60's and 70's, as well as mainstream cinema - has had an effect on the kinds of work contemporary performance artists in NYC today are
- [De-Douching America](https://www.tomtenney.com/2009/08/02/de-douching-america/) - This weekend, I'm catching up on my Daily Shows & Colbert Reports that I missed while in SF. I just watched Wednesday's Daily Show, and was blown away by "So You Think You Can Douche", taking on the talking heads on cable news networks. It's not that it was so much better than the typical
- [Media Hot & Cold Revisited](https://www.tomtenney.com/2009/11/30/media-hot-cold-revisited/) - The following is my reaction to Eduardo Navas' excellent article posted on Remix Theory, about how McLuhan's ideas about "Hot & Cold" media apply to a contemporary media landscape that is vastly different from the milieux in which McLuhan was writing in the 60's. I originally posted this on the Social Media Mashup
- [Telling the Truth in 'David Holzman’s Diary' and Bruce Conner's 'Report.'](https://www.tomtenney.com/2010/03/10/telling-the-truth-in-david-holzmans-diary-and-report/) - Bruce Conner’s Report (1967) and Jim McBride’s David Holzman’s Diary (1967) both appeared in a year when cynicism about the media, politics, and the Vietnam War were high and cultural shifts were taking place all over the globe. The Kennedy assassination had shocked the country just four years before, and the growth of an underground
- ['The Free-Appropriation Writer’ in the New York Times](https://www.tomtenney.com/2010/04/12/reaction-to-the-free-appropriation-writer-in-the-new-york-times/) - On February 26 2010, in a piece called “The Free-Appropriation Writer,” The New York Times’ Randy Kennedy reported on the recent controversy over German novelist Helene Hegemann, and whether the use of another writer’s work in her novel was theft or an allowable form of “sampling” or “remix.” Kennedy’s article misses the central issue around
- [The Influence of Art and Performance on the Rise of American Independent Cinema](https://www.tomtenney.com/2010/05/05/the-influence-of-art-and-performance-on-the-rise-of-american-independent-cinema/) - “As in the other arts in America today – painting, poetry, sculpture, theater, where fresh winds have been blowing for the last few years – our rebellion against the old, official, corrupt and pretentious is primarily an ethical one.” The above statement, taken from the manifesto of the New American Cinema Group (81) written after
- [‘I Didn’t Know That’ – A Collage for Radio](https://www.tomtenney.com/2010/06/29/i-didnt-know-that-a-collage-for-radio/) - A three-minute sonic collage created almost entirely from appropriated materials, mostly soundtracks from military training and educational films, following the guidelines for the Third Coast Festival Short Docs Challenge. I've included a brief statement of intent below. Statement of Intent: The piece was actually inspired by a Brecht quote about "an inescapable profusion and confusion
- [Great Expectations: A Love Story](https://www.tomtenney.com/2010/07/08/great-expectations-a-love-story/) - This piece was created following the Snap Judgement guidelines, with one of the following titles/themes: Great Expectations, The Wizard of Oz, or Busted. I chose the first, and wrote a script about my romance with a young German actress back in 1986, based on my journal entries and her letters. Thanks to Noel Dinneen and
- [“They Call Me Pubefinger” – A True Story Told in Pop Culture References](https://www.tomtenney.com/2010/12/15/they-call-me-pubefinger-a-true-story-told-in-pop-culture-references/) - Barbie Dolls, Love Story, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, KC & The Sunshine Band, Jaws, Queen (the band), Barry Manilow, Pong, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Google, Woody Woodpecker, Altered States, True Red, Run Lola Run, The Shining, Dead Alive, The Six Million Dollar Man, ET, The Elephant Man, One Got Fat, The
- [Cybernetics in Art and the Myth of the Cyborg Artist](https://www.tomtenney.com/2010/12/29/cybernetics-in-art-and-the-myth-of-the-cyborg-artist/) - Today's artist - like Donna Haraway's cyborg feminist - moves beyond both traditional limitations and modernist ideas about art, and enters into a hypermediated relationship with society and technology in which technological methods and mediated collaboration across networks are common. Art has always been a carrier of cultural information. Cybernetics as a theory of communication
- [Scream Symphony #1](https://www.tomtenney.com/2011/02/14/scream-symphony-1/) - At the risk of saying too much about the 'intent' of this piece (something I usually steer clear of), I feel as though explaining a bit about how it was constructed might enhance the listening. When creating Scream Symphony #1, I tried to find screams that were as "authentic" as possible - some of my
- [We Are All Underground (ft. Moonshine Shorey)](https://www.tomtenney.com/2011/03/08/we-are-all-underground-ft-moonshine-shorey/) - There's something that has just always seemed tragically lonely about NYC subway musicians. Making music is (or seems) to be an inherently social activity - something we do with, and for others - and yet most buskers perform by themselves. This isn't unusual of course, there are many people out there who identify as "solo
- [(It Will) Never Work: A critique of the Situationists’ appropriation of Johan Huizinga’s theory of play](https://www.tomtenney.com/2012/05/21/it-will-never-work-a-critique-of-the-situationists-appropriation-of-johan-huizingas-theory-of-play/) - The Situationist International (1957-1972), or SI, was an intellectual avant-garde collective that used Homo Ludens, a text written in 1938 by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, as a key source informing much of their writing and key tenets of their philosophy. In this paper, I will first look at key elements of Huizinga’s theory of play
- [Rhyme Machine](https://www.tomtenney.com/2013/06/09/rhyme-machine/) - The following article originally appeared in The Villager on May 9, 2013 In a 1913 letter to the composer Francesco Balilla Pratella, Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo declared, “The variety of noises is infinite…today we have perhaps a thousand different machines, and can distinguish a thousand different noises, tomorrow, as new machines multiply, we will be able
- [Brick Up Your Ears](https://www.tomtenney.com/2013/07/06/brick-up-your-ears-sound-festival-at-the-brick-theater/) - The following article originally appeared in The Villager on June 6, 2013 The Brick Theater produces a lot of festivals - it’s kind of their thing. But festivals at the Williamsburg experimental venue aren’t your garden-variety observance of artist or genre; they’ve become the theatre’s way of exploring aesthetic and cultural intersections. Sure, some of the dozens
- [Radical Vaudeville: Surf Reality is Still Making Waves](https://www.tomtenney.com/2014/06/03/radical-vaudeville-surf-reality-still-making-waves/) - The following review was originally published on June 3, 2013 in Theater Pizzazz! New York is a city that recycles itself, and those who have lived here long enough have become accustomed to the life cycles of landscapes, buildings, businesses, and cultural institutions. New York is in a constant state of metamorphosis; it’s just how this
- [The Ultimate Stimulus at Fringe NYC](https://www.tomtenney.com/2014/08/22/ultimate-stimulus-fringe-nyc/) - The following review was originally published on August 22, 2014 in Theater Pizzazz! Parody, by definition, speaks with two voices – that of the parodist, and that of its target – the former always subverting the latter by an act of redirecting the text from its original context to one more compromising. It implores us

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- [Home 2](https://www.tomtenney.com/) - Tom Tenney is a writer, teacher, digital media professional, and founder of Radio Free Brooklyn, a non-profit community radio station.
- [CV](https://www.tomtenney.com/cv/) - Tom Tenney: CV Below is an exhaustive CV of all of the work I've done since 2000. Use the navigation to view specific areas of work. Full CV Radio/Sound Performance/Art Writing Teaching Talks Digital Full CV EDUCATION Master of Arts - Media Studies; The New School; New York, NY Bachelor of Science; The New School;
- [About Tom Tenney](https://www.tomtenney.com/about/) - I'm a producer, performer, writer, sound scrounger, radio show host, teacher, and digital media professional. As a result of wearing so many hats, I spend a lot of time thinking about the complex relationships between all of these things - art, culture, and media. As a digital producer and consultant, I've worked at VH1, Oxygen, Phoenix
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- [Radio Free Brooklyn](https://www.tomtenney.com/radio-free-brooklyn/) - In May 2015, I launched a nonprofit community radio station, Radio Free Brooklyn, with a vision to revitalize a community of performers, thinkers, and activists like the one I had been a part of on the Lower East Side in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Our first home was in the rat-infested basement of a
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