Marc Tasman

Senior Teaching Faculty & DAC Director 
DIGITAL ARTS AND CULTURE PROGRAM 
mtasman@uwm.edu 
Bolton Hall 570, Sabin Hall 325 
Faculty & Academic Staff 

Education 

MFA, The Ohio State University
 
BFA, University of Louisville 

Research and Teaching Interests

I am an Intermedia artist, trained in photography, also having worked with video, performance, net-art, drawing, and the stuff of everyday life. My research-creation focuses on the strengths of social technologies to create identity, meaning, and continuity in performed, mediated, and material culture. My research and teaching interests also include Internet Culture, Memes, Remix and Fair Use; Futurism and Speculative Fiction, Culture Jamming and Activist Art; Visual Culture, Photojournalism, Histories of Photography and New Media; Algorithm and AI, The Quantifiable Self, The Selfie, Identity and Performance; Slow Fashion, Nature and Culture. Through teaching, collaborations, and creative activities, I encourage practices that forge connections to broader learning communities, empowering people to experiment with new forms and innovative enterprises.  

Courses

DAC/JAMS 113 — Internet Culture
 
JAMS 232 — Photojournalism
 
DAC/JAMS 336 — Media Graphics 
Honors 380 — Cultivating a Creative Life (Seminar in the Arts) 

Recent Manuscripts

Tasman, Marc. “Race for the Prize: The Proto-Selfie as Endurance Performance Art.” In Self- Representation in an Expanded Field: From Self-Portraiture to Selfie, Contemporary Art in the Social Media Age, edited by Ace Lehner. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI Books, 2021. https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/edition/2034 

Tasman, Marc. Internet Culture, 2017, and Internet Culture, Version 2, 2022, Great River Learning, Dubuque, Iowa. Interactive Electronic Text. 

Selected Presentations and Exhibitions

2021 HOSTILE TERRAINS group exhibition, Emil H. Mathis Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, featuring FLATTEN THE CURVE (SELECTIONS FROM THE COVID-19 MKE ARCHIVES), a collaborative installation by Christopher Cantwell and Marc Tasman.  

2019 TERRAIN BIENNIAL, group exhibition, Terrain Exhibitions, a multi-city, site specific, outdoor public exhibition. Evanston, IL. https://terrainexhibitions.org/  

2018 LOOK HERE! Collaborative, curated group exhibition between UW-Milwaukee Libraries ad RedLine Art Collective, and the Charles Allis and Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. Co-organized by Ann Hanlon, Marc Tasman, Max Yela, Nirmal Raja, Shana McCaw. https://uwm.edu/lib-collections/look-here/   

2016 FORWARD 2016: A SURVEY OF WISCONSIN ART NOW, juried group exhibition, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. Jurors, Susan Barnett and Brent Budsberg  

2015 NATURAL LEGACY, solo exhibition, Tenth Street Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.  

2014  INTÉRIEUR TROUVÉ, solo exhibition, Galerie Remise, Saint-Hippolyte, QC, Canada. 

2013   DEAR FAMILY, I LOVE YOU, solo exhibition, Founders Hall Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc, WI 

2012   NEW MEDIA CAUCUS SHOWCASE, group live art symposium, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, CA. Curator, Paul Catanese 

2010   WISCONSIN TRIENNIAL 2010 (May 22-Aug. 15)
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOCA), Madison, WI. Curator of exhibitions, Jane Simon. (Catalogue), http://mmocatri.org/category/artist-profiles/page/4/. 

2007 “Who is Stealing My Signs?” Video screening, 45th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2007. 

Published Images

Telushkin, Shira. “Challah and the Men Who Bake It.” Tablet Magazine, March 7, 2016. Photo:  Marc Tasman http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/198163/challah-and-the-men-who-bake-it  

Knappenberger, Brian. “A Threat to Internet Freedom.” Op-Doc Video, New York Times digital edition, July 9, 2014. Archival Photos: Marc Tasman  http://t.co/56w7KwkwOW 

Shaw, Michael. “Reading the Pictures: The Clint Eastwood Chrysler ‘Halftime in America’ Controversy, and the Doctored Wisconsin Footage.” The Huffington Post, February 7, 2012. Photo by Marc Tasman. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shaw/chrysler-superbowl-ad_b_1260740.html 

Conference Presentations

2019  “Look Here! Artists Transforming the Archives” presenter/panelist, Collaborations in and out of the Classroom: New Ideas and Interdisciplinary Approaches, sponsored by the Community College Professors of Art and Art History (CCPAAH), 2019 College Art Association Conference. New York City, Hilton Midtown, February 15, 2019.   

2016 “Race for the Prize: Proto-Selfie as Ritualized Photographic Endurance Performance” Invited Speaker, Kern Conference on Visual Communication: Selfies, Self-Portraits, and Social Media, Rochester Institute of Technology, April 15, 2016. 

2015 “Future Cultures,” curated speaker, TEDxUWMilwaukee React Differently, Milwaukee, WI. October 3, 2015 http://www.tedxuwmilwaukee.com/ 

Published Conference Proceedings

2016 Branca, Sid. JOURNAL REVIEW: “Intersections: Panel Report,” Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus, Summer 2016, V.12, N.02 ISSN: 1942-017X http://median.newmediacaucus.org/caa-conference-edition-2016-washington-dc/intersections-panel-report/  containing a review of “Proposal for the New American Flag: Representing a New Constellation,” by Marc Tasman, Washington, DC.  

2013   Tasman, Marc. “Dark Tourist Seeks Lost Galitzianers’ Treasure,” speaker, Conney Conference on Jewish Arts: Diasporas, University of Wisconsin–Madison. April 9, 2013. Video Proceedings http://conneyproject.wisc.edu/videos-2013/  

2012 Catanese, Paul. JOURNAL REVIEW: Artist Showcase and Reception Report,” Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus, Spring 2012: V.08 N.01 ISSN: 1942-017X http://median.s151960.gridserver.com/?page_id=409 containing a review of "12-year-old Computer Genius from 1984: Contextualizing YouTube Video Comments as a Corpora of Text on Internet Culture,” by Marc Tasman, Los Angeles, CA.  

Community and Visiting Artist Presentations

 2023 “Internet History and Culture,” speaker Marc Tasman, Director, Digital Arts and Culture, UW-Milwaukee, City of Brookfield Public Library, Community Room. Brookfield, WI, Apr 19, 2023.  

2021 “Quite the Complexity: Social Media and Our 24/7 Culture,” panelists Marc Tasman, Director, Digital Arts and Culture, UW-Milwaukee, Brendan Griffith, Senior VP & Milwaukee General Manager and Paige Borgman, Director of Digital Strategy of Reputation Partners, for the GIG GROUP, a community leadership, entrepreneurial, philanthropic support group for women. Milwaukee, WI, Jan 13, 2021  

2019 “In the Challah Studio” Workshop, Co-Hosted by Scout Gallery and Milwaukee JCC, with artist Marc Tasman and Rabbi Shari Shamah. Scout Gallery, Historic Mitchell Street, Milwaukee, WI, September 23, 2019,   

2016 “Remixing Culture” with guest, Marc Tasman, Technophiles Podcast, Digital Humanities Lab, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, February 24, 2016. Produced by David Geisler. http://www.technophilespodcast.com/288-marc-tasman-remixing-culture-live-technophiles-podcast/  

Related Experience

2022 Media Consultant for Rappaport, Mat, writer, director. “Touristic Intents.”,  

2021 A documentary film that explores the connection between mass tourism and political ideology, centered on the never completed Nazi Resort in Prora, Germany. Marc Tasman worked as a consultant in 2022 in producing various trailers and poster designs in promoting the release and distribution. https://touristic-intents.com/    

2014-19 Co-Director and Arts Facilitator, Milwaukee Jewish Artist’s Laboratory, a collaboration with the Midwest Jewish Artists’ Laboratory (Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Chicago, and Cleveland) with support from The Covenant Foundation  

2013-19 Artist in Residence, Mentoring Artist. RedLine Urban Laboratory and Community Studios, Milwaukee WI.   From 2013-19, I was a member of this artist’s collective which in addition to providing low cost studios for artists had at the center of its mission the residency program which paired emerging artists with mid-level or established artists for collaborative exchange and mutual growth.