Mark Jackson (curator) explained

Mark Jackson
Birth Place:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality:British, United States
Other Names:Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson
Occupation:Art curator

Mark Peter Andrew Rohtmaa-Jackson (born 2 February 1976) is an American British curator based in the East of Iceland. In 2023 he was appointed the Director of LungA School,[1] [2] an independent artist-led art school in Seyðisfjörður.[3]

Life and work

Until 2023, Jackson was the curator, and co-founder,[4] of IMT Gallery in London[5] since the gallery was founded in 2005. At IMT Jackson specialised in sound art and audiovisual practice,[6] 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.[7] [8] [9] His book on curating, Contemporary Exhibition-Making and Management, was published by Routledge in 2023.[10]

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, Newcastle, from 2014 to 2023 where he was the curator of exhibitions at the university's art gallery Gallery North from 2014-18.[11] 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, supervised by Angus Carlyle, Salomé Voegelin and David Toop[12] and speaking on Burroughs at conferences including Beyond the Cut-up: William S. Burroughs and the Image at The Photographers' Gallery[13] [14] and the Sound Art Curating conference at ZKM.[15] 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.[16] [17]

Jackson has also exhibited or performed as an artist, including as part of Plastique Fantastique[18] and NEUSCHLOSS.

External links

Notes and References

  1. lungaschool. Cu6bV9AIPCU. Dr. Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson has been appointed as the director of the LungA school as of October 15. 2023-07-20.
  2. News: Albert Örn Eythórsson . NÝR SKÓLASTJÓRI LUNGA-SKÓLANS . 3 May 2024 . . 11 April 2024 . Icelandic.
  3. Book: Kelly, Robert. Collaborative Creativity: Educating for Creative Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 2020. Brush Education Incorporated. Edmonton, Alberta. 978-1-550-59837-7. 96.
  4. http://madeinshoreditch.co.uk/2013/07/29/what-curators-want/ 'What Curators Want' interview with Made in Shoreditch, 2013
  5. Web site: 2014-11-28 . 'Overturned Furniture': Is it art, or more like a crime scene? . 2023-06-23 . The Independent . en.
  6. Web site: Tate Collectives . 2018-07-12 . dead . https://archive.today/20140726212318/http://tatecollectives.tumblr.com/post/46461408024/interview-with-sound-art-curator-mark-jackson . 2014-07-26 . Interview with Tate Collectives, 2013
  7. http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/issue/jul-aug-2010/ Art Monthly, 338 (July–August 2010).
  8. The Wire, 315 (May 2010).
  9. http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/7899/1/dead-fingers-talk Dazed Digital
  10. Web site: Contemporary Exhibition-Making and Management: Curating IMT Gallery as a Hybrid Space . 2023-06-23 . Routledge & CRC Press . en.
  11. http://gn.northumbria.ac.uk/ Gallery North website
  12. Web site: Mark Jackson - Sound Art - University of the Arts London . 2014-07-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140728062224/http://www.arts.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/research-student-projects/sound-art/mark-jackson/ . 2014-07-28 . University of the Arts London research student projects
  13. http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/beyond-the-cut-up-william-s-burroughs-and-the-image-conference Beyond the Cut-up at The Photographers' Gallery, 2014
  14. Web site: 2014-02-21 . Taking Shots: the Photography of William S. Burroughs and Beyond the Cut-up: William S. Burroughs and the Image. Review by Rona Cran . 2023-06-23 . European Beat Studies Network . en.
  15. http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$8535 Methodologies of Sound Art Curating / Curating Sound at ZKM, 2013
  16. Web site: V Magazine / The Sounds of William S. Burroughs . 2014-11-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141108144552/http://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/3298/the-sounds-of-william-s-burroughs . 2014-11-08 . Nicole Sansone, (2014) "The Sounds of William S. Burroughs" V Magazine.
  17. Web site: 2014-10-23 . A bucket list? I'd rather quote poetry by heart before I die; Week . 2023-06-23 . The Independent . en.
  18. Web site: Plastique Fantastique Make New Life . 2023-12-23 . Plastique Fantastique. en.

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