About Me

Artist and educator based in Portland and the Willamette Valley. Respect for the Earth and all living things. Cameras, sound, and software as critical inquiry and ways of being. Bureaucracy as creative practice. Landscape, infrastructure, language, design choice, and digital code as producers and mediators of human experience.

Associate Professor at Western Oregon University, and Creative Arts Division Chair. I teach in the Art & Design, Visual Communication Design, Creative Production, The Arts, and Film Studies programs.

MFA, Art, University of Florida
BA, Media Studies, Pomona College

Current research interests:
students’ self-expression through public engagement
histories of land
waypoint signage and viewshed management
creative practice as wellness activity
tree species identification by sight
building hyperlocal electric guitars

Contact: dantank@gmail.com