︎ MARCUS JACK is a curator and writer based in Glasgow.
His research looks for counternarratives
in visual culture through analyses of infrastructure, statehood and
socio-economics, with particular emphasis on artists’ film.
He is Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at the University of Edinburgh and has held academic posts at the University of Exeter (2023–2025), The Glasgow School of Art (AHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022–2023), and was a visiting researcher with the Archive/Counter-Archive project at York University, Toronto, in 2022.
He is Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at the University of Edinburgh and has held academic posts at the University of Exeter (2023–2025), The Glasgow School of Art (AHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022–2023), and was a visiting researcher with the Archive/Counter-Archive project at York University, Toronto, in 2022.
Marcus develops screening programmes and publications through Transit
Arts (2015–) and is the founding editor of DOWSER (2020–2024), an open-access serial
concerning artists’ moving image in Scotland.
He is a Trustee of Glasgow Artists’ Moving Image Studios SCIO (2020–) and has advised on the Steering Group of the British Art Network (Tate and Paul Mellon Centre, 2019–2022) and submissions panels of Glasgow Short Film Festival (2016–2020; 2021–) and Open City Documentary Festival, London (2019–2021).
He is a Trustee of Glasgow Artists’ Moving Image Studios SCIO (2020–) and has advised on the Steering Group of the British Art Network (Tate and Paul Mellon Centre, 2019–2022) and submissions panels of Glasgow Short Film Festival (2016–2020; 2021–) and Open City Documentary Festival, London (2019–2021).
