Marc Tasman

Lecturer

147A Johnston Hall
(414) 229-2338
mtasman@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf)

Degrees:

M.F.A., The Ohio State University
B.F.A., University of Louisville

Courses Taught:

JAMS 113: Internet Culture - Syllabus
JAMS 232: Photojournalism - Syllabus
JAMS 336: Media Graphics - Syllabus

Research Interests:

Photography and representation, semiology, parody and free speech.

Teaching Areas:

Digital Arts and Culture, Visual Adaptation, Identity and Narrative, New Media Theory and Practice.

Selected Presentations and Exhibitions:

Exhibition: 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/

Performance: 9/9/09 SHOW, Performance Art Showcase, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Pegi Taylor-Christensen and John Loscuito, producers. Milwaukee, WI, Sept. 9, 2009

Paper Presented: "Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat: Performance of Anti-Semitism as Jewish Activist Art." Legacy of the Holocaust International Conference, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, May 2007.

Video Screening: "Who is Stealing My Signs?" 45th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2007.

Featured in Book: Modrak, Rebekah and Anthes, Bill. Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice, Publish Date Nov, 2010, Routledge Press. http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/marc-tasman