Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson
@markrohtmaajackson.bsky.social
curator of things 🫂 art kratt 🫂 LungA School janitor
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Dammit there is always something important I forget to put in the news letter.
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Dammit there is always something important I forget to put in the news letter.
When I wrote my PhD and when I wrote books and also other things besides, I would add the word 'BANANAS' into any place that I knew I would need to go back and check before publication. The ol' Ctrl+f BANANAS find. But it always made me want to write something about bananas someday.
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
When I wrote my PhD and when I wrote books and also other things besides, I would add the word 'BANANAS' into any place that I knew I would need to go back and check before publication. The ol' Ctrl+f BANANAS find. But it always made me want to write something about bananas someday.
A panel:
(School of the Commons @schoolofcommons.bsky.social / LungA School @lungaschool.bsky.social / Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social / NØ SCHOOL NEVERS / School of Machines @schoolofma.bsky.social)
(School of the Commons @schoolofcommons.bsky.social / LungA School @lungaschool.bsky.social / Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social / NØ SCHOOL NEVERS / School of Machines @schoolofma.bsky.social)
Archived recording of ANTIUNIVERSITY 2025 ~ Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology, and Technology chaired by Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social
youtu.be/fylp8RsdelY?...
youtu.be/fylp8RsdelY?...
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A panel:
(School of the Commons @schoolofcommons.bsky.social / LungA School @lungaschool.bsky.social / Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social / NØ SCHOOL NEVERS / School of Machines @schoolofma.bsky.social)
(School of the Commons @schoolofcommons.bsky.social / LungA School @lungaschool.bsky.social / Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social / NØ SCHOOL NEVERS / School of Machines @schoolofma.bsky.social)
Hi fans. I've something playing on Resonance Extra today just before 2pm UK time as part of CRiSAP's 'a mixtape to the future'. (I've also a film opening today's programme at the Flat Earth Film Festival, but if you're not in Seyðisfjörður then: 💀, so forget it) Let's all have a great day, right?
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Hi fans. I've something playing on Resonance Extra today just before 2pm UK time as part of CRiSAP's 'a mixtape to the future'. (I've also a film opening today's programme at the Flat Earth Film Festival, but if you're not in Seyðisfjörður then: 💀, so forget it) Let's all have a great day, right?
I have stacked up a series of dominios running into 2026... write a text that becomes a journal article that becomes a workshop that becomes an exhibition... but it only one of these were to fail ⚰️
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I have stacked up a series of dominios running into 2026... write a text that becomes a journal article that becomes a workshop that becomes an exhibition... but it only one of these were to fail ⚰️
The Lego rip-off advertising on ig a "futuristic police cell," which is a Dr Who TARDIS rip-off, which in itself is a copy of a police box from the '40s-50s. Amazing for obvious reasons re: "futuristic," ~~ something something something an essay written by an AI bot trained on Baudrillard.
October 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The Lego rip-off advertising on ig a "futuristic police cell," which is a Dr Who TARDIS rip-off, which in itself is a copy of a police box from the '40s-50s. Amazing for obvious reasons re: "futuristic," ~~ something something something an essay written by an AI bot trained on Baudrillard.
Do you lock your brain into your day? Apparently I seem to do this, especailly when it's busy. Like, a cancelled meeting will create a weird hole that I then seem incapable of filling with something worthwhile. Not complaining, merely curious of this factory setting.
October 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Do you lock your brain into your day? Apparently I seem to do this, especailly when it's busy. Like, a cancelled meeting will create a weird hole that I then seem incapable of filling with something worthwhile. Not complaining, merely curious of this factory setting.
Hi, cyberfriends. So the 'my little buttercup' song from The Three Amigos just sprang unbidden into my waking mind direct from the id, and now I wanna watch that film. But I'm scared because I haven't seen it since the '80s. Is it... okay?
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Hi, cyberfriends. So the 'my little buttercup' song from The Three Amigos just sprang unbidden into my waking mind direct from the id, and now I wanna watch that film. But I'm scared because I haven't seen it since the '80s. Is it... okay?
We sent an email
some days ago, but without
response from your side.
Do you want any
changes, or revamp your site?
Share your requirements.
I will be happy
to share some work proposals
based on requirements.
some days ago, but without
response from your side.
Do you want any
changes, or revamp your site?
Share your requirements.
I will be happy
to share some work proposals
based on requirements.
October 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
We sent an email
some days ago, but without
response from your side.
Do you want any
changes, or revamp your site?
Share your requirements.
I will be happy
to share some work proposals
based on requirements.
some days ago, but without
response from your side.
Do you want any
changes, or revamp your site?
Share your requirements.
I will be happy
to share some work proposals
based on requirements.
Watering the heather with our breath and sweat (from the dehumidifier)
October 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Watering the heather with our breath and sweat (from the dehumidifier)
Starting soon x
As a part of this year's #AntiuniversityFestival, I'm so excited to be organising the online panel: "Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology and Technology".
📅 Thursday, 16 October
⏰ 9:00 EST / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST
Sign up on luma to get the zoom link: luma.com/3rpoc79c
📅 Thursday, 16 October
⏰ 9:00 EST / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST
Sign up on luma to get the zoom link: luma.com/3rpoc79c
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Starting soon x
Awoke from a dream in which I was trying to recognise a man staring at me from a military-style parade and wearing my beloved Kuwaiti fawra bisht. "That's mine! How did he get hold of it?" When I wake up, I get an email from my mother that a family friend from Kuwait, a soldier, has died.
October 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Awoke from a dream in which I was trying to recognise a man staring at me from a military-style parade and wearing my beloved Kuwaiti fawra bisht. "That's mine! How did he get hold of it?" When I wake up, I get an email from my mother that a family friend from Kuwait, a soldier, has died.
Also, while I have you here on the subject of technology, contact lenses should be embedded with the tech from key rings that whilstle back, so when I drop one trying to put it in I don't spend twenty minutes searching with two differently-focused eyes only to then find it stuck to my belly.
October 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Also, while I have you here on the subject of technology, contact lenses should be embedded with the tech from key rings that whilstle back, so when I drop one trying to put it in I don't spend twenty minutes searching with two differently-focused eyes only to then find it stuck to my belly.
Seeing an artist being described in marketing by an LLM is a tragedy. Like, say something. Anything. Don't be afraid. Say nothing at all. Anything is better than running them through a generator. Art practice descriptor clichés are off-putting enough without them having never even touched flesh.
October 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Seeing an artist being described in marketing by an LLM is a tragedy. Like, say something. Anything. Don't be afraid. Say nothing at all. Anything is better than running them through a generator. Art practice descriptor clichés are off-putting enough without them having never even touched flesh.
Spent the day with the LungA School talking together about the art they were making, and it's always such a damn treat. Being around people being creative, artists making art, is such an intensity.
October 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Spent the day with the LungA School talking together about the art they were making, and it's always such a damn treat. Being around people being creative, artists making art, is such an intensity.
Two things I don't know rn:
1. I don't know what this music is; it only had an X drawn on the CD in Sharpie. But I will listen to it anyway.
2. I don't know where the lid is to the pot I want to cook rice in. But there are other pots.
1. I don't know what this music is; it only had an X drawn on the CD in Sharpie. But I will listen to it anyway.
2. I don't know where the lid is to the pot I want to cook rice in. But there are other pots.
October 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Two things I don't know rn:
1. I don't know what this music is; it only had an X drawn on the CD in Sharpie. But I will listen to it anyway.
2. I don't know where the lid is to the pot I want to cook rice in. But there are other pots.
1. I don't know what this music is; it only had an X drawn on the CD in Sharpie. But I will listen to it anyway.
2. I don't know where the lid is to the pot I want to cook rice in. But there are other pots.
My 6yo and I are talking about big numbers. I told her about a googul, which is 10, followed by 100 zeros, and she told me about a mountainskrillion, which is 10 with as many zeros as you can fit in a mountain.
October 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My 6yo and I are talking about big numbers. I told her about a googul, which is 10, followed by 100 zeros, and she told me about a mountainskrillion, which is 10 with as many zeros as you can fit in a mountain.
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Open call for ART Winter/Spring applications ends midnight tonight
We are currently open for applications for the ART programme that will happen in spring/winter January 5th - March 27th 2026. You can apply through our website, and if you have any questions, please send us an email. We are very excited to read your applications.
Lungaschool.is
Lungaschool.is
LungA School
Lungaschool.is
October 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Open call for ART Winter/Spring applications ends midnight tonight
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Scores for the words that Trump purged - a sonic intervention for voice, by anonymous sound artists
soundcloud.com/seydisfjordu...
soundcloud.com/seydisfjordu...
Scores for the words that Trump purged - a sonic intervention for voice
Scores for the words that Trump purged - a sonic intervention for voice
Written and performed by anonymous sound artists
A response to Donald Trump's order to remove hundreds of words from US governm
soundcloud.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Scores for the words that Trump purged - a sonic intervention for voice, by anonymous sound artists
soundcloud.com/seydisfjordu...
soundcloud.com/seydisfjordu...
Recording of part a talk I gave at the Freelands Foundation introducing LungA School, alongside Annebella Pollen (on the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift) and Elina Merenmies (on the Free Art School, Helsinki):
freelandsfoundation.co.uk/resources/li...
@lungaschool.bsky.social
@freelands.bsky.social
freelandsfoundation.co.uk/resources/li...
@lungaschool.bsky.social
@freelands.bsky.social
Alternative Models of Art Education | Freelands Foundation
freelandsfoundation.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Recording of part a talk I gave at the Freelands Foundation introducing LungA School, alongside Annebella Pollen (on the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift) and Elina Merenmies (on the Free Art School, Helsinki):
freelandsfoundation.co.uk/resources/li...
@lungaschool.bsky.social
@freelands.bsky.social
freelandsfoundation.co.uk/resources/li...
@lungaschool.bsky.social
@freelands.bsky.social
This is actually a really cool article about having power over your own damn name in the UK and how it's free, leagal, and defended by GDPR.
Want to change your name by deed poll in the UK? Here's how https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/25/deed-poll-uk-name-change/?utm_content=1758982800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Want to change your name by deed poll in the UK? Here's how
Want to change your name in the UK by deed poll? PinkNews looks into how you can do it and the important things you need to know.
www.thepinknews.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is actually a really cool article about having power over your own damn name in the UK and how it's free, leagal, and defended by GDPR.
Reposted by Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson
‘Difference that exists outside the system is terrifying because it reveals the truth of the system, its relativity, its fragility, and its mortality’ - René Girard
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
‘Difference that exists outside the system is terrifying because it reveals the truth of the system, its relativity, its fragility, and its mortality’ - René Girard
The rain has been relentless, and a storm is now here. A small leak is finding its way through the roof; it drips next to my bed. Dreamt I was unable to draw nudes well but was becoming highly skilled at drawing skeletons.
September 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The rain has been relentless, and a storm is now here. A small leak is finding its way through the roof; it drips next to my bed. Dreamt I was unable to draw nudes well but was becoming highly skilled at drawing skeletons.
Reposted by Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson
FINAL WEEK to apply to the Spring 2026 ART Program! Deadline 1 October 🏔 pls share 🏔
#OPENCALL LungA #ARTSCHOOL
#OPENCALL LungA #ARTSCHOOL
We are currently open for applications for the ART programme that will happen in spring/winter January 5th - March 27th 2026. You can apply through our website, and if you have any questions, please send us an email. We are very excited to read your applications.
Lungaschool.is
Lungaschool.is
LungA School
Lungaschool.is
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
FINAL WEEK to apply to the Spring 2026 ART Program! Deadline 1 October 🏔 pls share 🏔
#OPENCALL LungA #ARTSCHOOL
#OPENCALL LungA #ARTSCHOOL