bent/haus create mind-bending optical illusions, harnessing light, color, sound, video, and data into imaginative and immersive 3D experiences. Whether bouncing off mirrors or suspended in mist, bent/haus’s curious installations invite viewers to challenge their perception of inner and outer spaces.

Using smartphone apps and AI, Allison crafts psychedelic glitch art rich in abstraction, vibrancy, and unexpected dimensional qualities. Ben’s visionary, custom-built vessels—fashioned from simple yet cleverly recycled materials, and utilizing rudimentary tricks of physics—beam the 2D files into life.

Awards + Appearances

Glitchfield
• Debuted at “GlitchKraft: Allison Tanenhaus + Friends,” Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA, September and October 2019
• Featured on ArtConnect’s Instagram, July 2020
• Featured in the Anharmonic Online Film Festival, August 2020
• Featured in CADAF (Contemporary + Digital Art Fair)’s #DigitalArtMonth, October 2020
• Featured on Thanks, Artists Club’s Instagram, December 2020
• Featured in Union Square Video, Somerville, MA, December 2020 and January 2021
• Selected for the 9th Annual International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece, March 2021
• Selected for WetDovetail’s Virtual Gallery Open Call 1:4 (sponsored by Arts Council England)
• Featured in The Viewing Room ft. Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK, April 2021
• Selected for Chasing Light, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, July 2021
• Revisited for bent/haus: Ben K. Foley + Allison Tanenhaus, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA, January–February 2022
• Featured in The Boston Globe, January 2022
• Featured in The Boston Globe (again!), January 2022
• Revisited for “GlitchKraft: Allison Tanenhaus + Friends,” McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, March and April 2022
• Featured in GBH: Open Studio, April 2022

Mistery Machine
• Debuted at two public art events for community heat mediation at Groundwork Somerville (August 20, 2021) and Chuckie Harris Park (August 29, 2021)
• One half of Somerville Synth Crawl
• Sponsored by Keep Cool Somerville, a mini grant program by the City's Office of Sustainability & Environment, supported by a grant from the MAPC (Metropolitan Area Planning Council) Accelerating Climate Resiliency Grant Program
• Featured in Secret Boston, August 2021
• Featured in Dig Boston, October 2021
• Featured in CODAmagazine: Sound, Light, And Motion, August 2022
• Selected for LoKo Arts Festival, SUNY Potsdam, April 2023
• Winner of Best Interactive Project at Computer Space International Computer Art Forum, 2022

Orbteka
• Debuted at “GlitchKraft: Allison Tanenhaus + Friends,” Emerson Contemporary, Fall 2019
(Boston, MA)
• Super-sized and reimagined for “Art on the Marquee 30” on an 80-foot-tall multi-screen LED marquee
(the largest urban screen in New England!), Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Spring 2020
(Boston, MA)
• Featured in CODAmagazine’s issue “Technology & Art VII”
• Revisited for bent/haus: Ben K. Foley + Allison Tanenhaus, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA, January–February 2022
• Featured in GBH: Open Studio, April 2022

Wavelengths
• Created for Open Air 2020, UConn Avery Point, Groton, CT, curated by Charlotte Gray of the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, with help from ACCOL-NEAQ (New England Aquarium), Boston Harbor Cruises Whale Watch, and Gilles Carter (CT Audubon)
• Featured in UConn Magazine, Fall 2020

Phantasmagoria
• Debuted at bent/haus: Ben K. Foley + Allison Tanenhaus, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA, January–February 2022
• Revisited for Haus Party, Installation Space, North Adams, MA, August–September 2022

Distortions
• Debuted at bent/haus: Ben K. Foley + Allison Tanenhaus, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA, January–February 2022
• Revisited for Haus Party, Installation Space, North Adams, MA, August–September 2022

Press Highlights