MARCUS JACK
︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎I am a cultural historian and curator based in Glasgow, currently serving as Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory and Director of Outreach (Art) at Edinburgh Collge of Art, University of Edinburgh (2025–).
Selected curatorial projects, writing and talks are listed throughout this site. I also collaborate with artists, filmmakers and organisations on print and digital design.
My research looks for counternarratives in visual culture through analyses of statehood, socio-economics and political identity, with a particular emphasis on artists’ film and video. My first book, Artists’ Film in Scotland (Edinburgh University Press), is due to be published in 2027.
I have held academic roles at the University of Exeter (2023–2025), The Glasgow School of Art (2023), and was a visiting researcher with the Archive/Counter-Archive project at York University, Toronto (2022). I received my doctorate from The Glasgow School of Art in 2022.
As a curator, I have developed screening programmes and publications through Transit Arts (2015–2025) and was the founding editor of DOWSER (2020–2024), an open-access serial concerning artists’ moving image in Scotland.
I have held academic roles at the University of Exeter (2023–2025), The Glasgow School of Art (2023), and was a visiting researcher with the Archive/Counter-Archive project at York University, Toronto (2022). I received my doctorate from The Glasgow School of Art in 2022.
As a curator, I have developed screening programmes and publications through Transit Arts (2015–2025) and was the founding editor of DOWSER (2020–2024), an open-access serial concerning artists’ moving image in Scotland.
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