Marc Tasman is an Intermedia artist focusing his research-creation on the strengths of social technologies to create meaning in culture. He is director of the interdisciplinary Digital Arts and Culture program and teaches Internet Culture, Photojournalism, and Media Graphics courses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies Program.

In essence, he has a strong interest in the ways that technology and culture intersect. New tools– photographic, journalistic, audio-visual tools– not only give us new ways of telling our stories, but they reveal new kinds of stories that are becoming tellable through mediated, reproducible, and easily transmitted digital artifacts. His mission, through teaching and community engagement, is to empower people to innovate with new media forms and creative enterprises.

You may recognize Tasman’s work from his photographs published in the New York Times Digital Edition, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, and Tablet Magazine; from his proto-selfie Ten Year Polaroid Project which was exhibited at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; from his drawing of iconic former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; or from photographs of his ritualized bread-making on social media.