︎ MARCUS JACK is a curator and writer based between Exeter and Glasgow.
His research looks for counternarratives
in visual culture through analyses of infrastructure, statehood and
socio-economics, with particular emphasis on artists’ film.
He lectures in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Exeter, was an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Glasgow School of Art in 2023, and a visiting researcher with the Archive/Counter-Archive project at York University, Toronto, in 2022.
He lectures in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Exeter, was an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Glasgow School of Art in 2023, and 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–), 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).
