Mark Peter Andrew Rohtmaa-Jackson (born 2 February 1976) is an US-American British artist, writer and curator based in the East of Iceland. In 2023 they were appointed the Director of LungA School, an independent artist-led art school in Seyðisfjörður.
Life and work
Jackson is the co-founder of IMT Gallery in London,http://madeinshoreditch.co.uk/2013/07/29/what-curators-want/ 'What Curators Want' interview with Made in Shoreditch, 2013 acting as the gallery's curator from 2005 to 2023. At IMT, Jackson specialised in sound art and audiovisual practice, Interview with Tate Collectives, 2013 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.http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/issue/jul-aug-2010/ Art Monthly, 338 (July–August 2010).The Wire, 315 (May 2010).http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/7899/1/dead-fingers-talk Dazed Digital Their 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. They 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 they were the curator of exhibitions at the university's art gallery Gallery North from 2014-18.http://gn.northumbria.ac.uk/ Gallery North website They are an authority on Burroughs's experiments with tape, completing a Doctor of Philosophy degree 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 University of the Arts London research student projects and speaking on Burroughs at conferences including Beyond the Cut-up: William S. Burroughs and the Image at The Photographers' Galleryhttp://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/beyond-the-cut-up-william-s-burroughs-and-the-image-conference Beyond the Cut-up at The Photographers' Gallery, 2014 and the Sound Art Curating conference at ZKM.http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$8535 Methodologies of Sound Art Curating / Curating Sound at ZKM, 2013 In 2014 they 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. Nicole Sansone, (2014) "The Sounds of William S. Burroughs" V Magazine.
Jackson has also exhibited or performed as an artist, including as part of Plastique Fantastique from 2011 to 2020.
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