Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson
@markrohtmaajackson.bsky.social
curator of things 🫂 art kratt 🫂 LungA School janitor ~ in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
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February 1, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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Gonna spend this morning watching my phone battery run itself into the ground and then hide the phone for 2026
January 1, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Gonna spend this morning watching my phone battery run itself into the ground and then hide the phone for 2026
I stood up to get off a bus in South London in the late '90s, whereapon a stranger took hold of my hand before realising that I was not the person, wearing a very similar coat, standing behind me. After a protracted moment of silent mutual confusion, we all left the bus as if nothing had occurred.
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I stood up to get off a bus in South London in the late '90s, whereapon a stranger took hold of my hand before realising that I was not the person, wearing a very similar coat, standing behind me. After a protracted moment of silent mutual confusion, we all left the bus as if nothing had occurred.
My daughter has friends around, all speaking a language I do not understand. I wait for them to leave and then walk through the debris: torn bank notes, a smouldering flag, the head of a crow sown to the body of a seal, a half drunk goblet of human tears.
December 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My daughter has friends around, all speaking a language I do not understand. I wait for them to leave and then walk through the debris: torn bank notes, a smouldering flag, the head of a crow sown to the body of a seal, a half drunk goblet of human tears.
A comments book response to a group art exhibition that I curated when I lived in the UK. The response read: "The worst exhibition I have ever seen. Ugly and stupid." I googled their name, and they were 80 years old. Which, I guess, is likely to be a lot of exhibitions.
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A comments book response to a group art exhibition that I curated when I lived in the UK. The response read: "The worst exhibition I have ever seen. Ugly and stupid." I googled their name, and they were 80 years old. Which, I guess, is likely to be a lot of exhibitions.
My 6yo has announced that she wishes to be vegetarian, which makes me immensely proud for two reasons. Firstly, her argument is about not causing animals suffering, and secondly, her announcement came the precise moment we serve up a very meat-heavy Estonia Christmas dinner. So... a punk vegetarian.
December 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My 6yo has announced that she wishes to be vegetarian, which makes me immensely proud for two reasons. Firstly, her argument is about not causing animals suffering, and secondly, her announcement came the precise moment we serve up a very meat-heavy Estonia Christmas dinner. So... a punk vegetarian.
Austin (of the Flat Earth Film Festival) has made this wonderful film about Seyðisfjörður for Le Guess Who? 🤍
Seyðisfjörður feels like home.
A short film about the artistic life in an East Iceland, made for COSMOS / Le Guess Who? by Austin Thomasson with the support of the team behind Seyðisfjörður Community Radio and LungA School: youtu.be/MRZZ2bRhdMk?...
A short film about the artistic life in an East Iceland, made for COSMOS / Le Guess Who? by Austin Thomasson with the support of the team behind Seyðisfjörður Community Radio and LungA School: youtu.be/MRZZ2bRhdMk?...
COSMOS Embassy Film: Seyðisfjörður, Iceland by Seydisfjordur Community Radio
YouTube video by Le Guess Who?
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December 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Austin (of the Flat Earth Film Festival) has made this wonderful film about Seyðisfjörður for Le Guess Who? 🤍
Tidying up the house, I found a 3 CD boxed set of Gregorian chants. It is suddenly the early '90s again. I feel the need to source some random joss sticks, a ghutrah, and some bell-bottomed jeans ragged at the hem.
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Tidying up the house, I found a 3 CD boxed set of Gregorian chants. It is suddenly the early '90s again. I feel the need to source some random joss sticks, a ghutrah, and some bell-bottomed jeans ragged at the hem.
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
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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 ⚰️
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?
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.
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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
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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
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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):
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@lungaschool.bsky.social
@freelands.bsky.social
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@lungaschool.bsky.social
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Alternative Models of Art Education | Freelands Foundation
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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