Mark Jackson (curator)

Mark Peter Andrew Rohtmaa-Jackson (born 2 February 1976) is an American British curator based in the East of Iceland.

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.

[12] They are 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[13] and speaking on Burroughs at conferences including Beyond the Cut-up: William S. Burroughs and the Image at The Photographers' Gallery[14][15] and the Sound Art Curating conference at ZKM.

[16] 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.

[17][18] Jackson has also exhibited or performed as an artist, including as part of Plastique Fantastique[19] and NEUSCHLOSS.