About Tom Tenney
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I’m a producer, performer, writer, sound artist, community & social media professional, and digital media dilettante (digitante?). 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, media… I’m the Senior Producer of Community and Social Media at VH1, and have worked for Oxygen, Bates/141 Interactive (defunct), Blue Barn Interactive (now Kaava), and Agency.com. See my full digital CV here.
A 14-year veteran of the NYC underground performance scene, I was a resident producer at Surf Reality’s House of Urban Savages from 1998-2003, and created its flagship show, Grindhouse-A-Go-Go! As a performer, I’ve been seen in Robert Wilson’s production of Hamletmachine, the opera Salome at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and on underground stages from LA to Chicago to Boston. I’m a graduate of Ringling Brothers’ Clown College, and the former booker for the Chicago Improv comedy club. I started and ran Toxic Pop, a weekly newsletter and online community for NYC performance, for six years and am currently enrolled in the Media Studies program at The New School. I’m interested and involved in remix culture and copyright reform – and am a director of the RE/Mixed Media Festival 2010 held each year in Brooklyn, presented by the League of Independents of which I’m also a founding member.
If you want to read the whole sordid tale, check out my intellectual autobiography
You can contact me at tom AT tomtenney DOT com.