Carolyn Tennant is a media artist, curator, and archivist interested in hybrid nonfiction forms. Her work is informed by a background in documentary production and literary journalism. Tennant received her MFA from the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a BA in American Studies and Documentary Journalism from Hampshire College. She has presented her research at venues including the Guggenheim Museum, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, and the Association of Moving Image Archivists. From 2006-2017, she was Media Arts Director and Archivist at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, NY), where she headed their digital archives project. Her curatorial projects, which have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Harpo Foundation and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, have received critical acclaim and have been featured in international exhibitions including Art Basel Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Whitney Museum. Her writing has appeared in Afterimage Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism and is included in The Emergence of Video Processing Tools (University of Chicago, 2014). Her video, Hysterionics (2006), is distributed by VDB and EAI. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where her research investigates the archive as a platform for 21st Century storytelling. She is working on an expanded documentary that is inspired by newly digitized home movies produced by Muriel OrrEwing, who was the headmistress of The Grove Finishing School for Young Ladies from 1947-1969.