Advanced Video Art

So, you’ve taken one of our previous Intro to Video Art classes and are still hungry to learn more? This new Advanced class will provide students with front-row access to a roundtable conversation between established local performers, a featured Video Artist Talk from Allison Tanenhaus, and the opportunity to practice and perform live visuals during a night of local music. Three sessions: June 10, 17, and 24. 

Pre-Req: Intro to Analog Video Art or Intro to Digital Video Art
All sessions take place at CCTV, 438 Massachusetts Ave. - 6 to 8pm.

• Session 1: Roundtable discussion with local video artists - available to answer questions, share their work, and discuss the process. List of panelists forthcoming. - June 10, 2026

• Session 2: Allison Tanenhaus, established video and glitch artist - talks about her journey with Video Arts - June 17, 2026

• Session 3: “Big Gig” Performance with local music acts, offering students a performance opportunity - June 24, 2026

Cost: Cost includes materials and class time. We offer two tiers of pricing for Non-Members. CCTV Members receive 20% discount off recommended price. 

1. Recommended - $150
2. Subsidized (if full price is a barrier) - $75
3. Member price (for active members) - $120

Featured speaker: Allison Tanenhaus

Allison Tanenhaus (she/her) is a New York–born, Boston–based glitch media artist. She specializes in immersive op art, anachronistic tech mashups, and unexpected dimensional qualities.

Source material consists of original photos and crowdsourced media that she reconfigures with smartphone apps. Made with equal parts deliberation and experimentation, the rainbow-hued mutations take on a psychedelic life of their own.

At a time when platforms pervasively cull personal data—and digital conformity is the norm—Allison views reclaiming devices, embracing error, and transforming shared environments as radical acts of autonomy, mindfulness, and community.

Allison’s recent work in AI seeks to creatively short-circuit machine-learning processes. She manipulates the software’s lean toward logic, producing imagery steeped in the saccharine, saturated, and surreal. Under the moniker Collective Memory Collective, she creates nostalgia-laced dance-pop music.

Allison’s work has been showcased in 26 countries via exhibitions, installations, festivals, dance parties, music videos, live performances, and guerrilla street art. Highlights include Emerson Contemporary, Boston Cyberarts,  Boston Museum of Science Planetarium, SaveArtSpace, “Empowered Women Empower Women” curated by Paris Hilton, and her traveling shows “GlitchKraft” and “Haus Party.”

Allison is a grantee of Somerville’s Visual Art Fellowship and the City of Boston’s Transformative Public Art Program, and is a member of electronic music group Cosmic Lucifer and optical installation duo bent/haus.

Panelsts: TBD