Mark Peter Andrew Rohtmaa-Jackson (born 2 February 1976) is an
American British
Americans in the United Kingdom or American Britons, includes emigrants from the United States who gain British citizenship, people from the United States who are or have become residents or citizens of the United Kingdom.
Population
The 2001 ...
curator based in the
East of
Iceland. In 2023 he was appointed the Director of
LungA School
LungA School is an artist-run residential art school based in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland that offers programs in Art and Land.
History
Inspired by anarchist pedagogies, the school grew out of the LungA Art Festival, and was founded by Dani ...
, an independent artist-led art school in
Seyðisfjörður.
Life and work
Until 2023, Jackson was the curator, and co-founder, of
IMT Gallery in
London since the gallery was founded in 2005. At IMT Jackson specialised in
sound art and audiovisual practice, curating exhibitions including 2010's ''Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs'', an exhibition built around a series of unreleased experiments with
audio tape by
William S. Burroughs. His book on curating, ''Contemporary Exhibition-Making and Management'', was published by
Routledge in 2023.
Jackson originally studied and taught in the
United Kingdom having a degree in
painting from the
University of East London and an MA in Fine Art Media from the
Slade School of Fine Art. He taught on MA Sound Arts at
London College of Communication from 2008 to 2014, BA Fine Art at
Southampton Solent University from 2013 to 2014 and was a Senior Lecturer in art history and critical theory at
Northumbria University
, mottoeng = A lifetime of learning
, established = 1877 - Rutherford College of Technology1969 - Newcastle Polytechnic1992 - gained university status
, type = Public
, budget = Â ...
,
Newcastle, from 2014 to 2023 where he was the curator of exhibitions at the university's art gallery Gallery North from 2014-18. He is an authority on Burroughs's experiments with tape, researching a PhD on the tape experiments at CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice),
University of the Arts London
University of the Arts London is a collegiate university in London, England, specialising in arts, design, fashion and the performing arts. It is a federation of six arts colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea Coll ...
, supervised by Angus Carlyle, Salomé Voegelin and
David Toop and speaking on Burroughs at conferences including ''Beyond the Cut-up: William S. Burroughs and the Image'' at
The Photographers' Gallery
The Photographers' Gallery was founded in London by Sue Davies opening on 14 January 1971, as the first public gallery in the United Kingdom devoted solely to photography.
It is also home to the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, established in ...
and the Sound Art Curating conference at
ZKM
The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former muni ...
.In 2014 he composed ''This is a game called ‘Hello, hello, here is X.X.’'' a limited-edition art-work in the form of a vinyl made from a recorded interview between Burroughs and journalist Roger Clarke.
Jackson has also exhibited or performed as an artist, including as part of
Plastique Fantastique and
NEUSCHLOSS.
External links
website
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Mark
Living people
1976 births
Academics of the London College of Communication
Academics of Northumbria University
Academics of Solent University
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Alumni of the University of East London
American emigrants to England
American expatriates in Iceland
British curators
British expatriates in Iceland
People educated at Bedales School