Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson
@markrohtmaajackson.bsky.social
curator of things 🫂 art kratt 🫂 LungA School janitor ~ in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Plug me straight in to this
January 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Plug me straight in to this
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.
As soon as i realised as socially awkward expat kid that rpgs and rpg-adjacent wargames like Warhammer were >90% preparation and <10% actual playtime I was in.
December 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
As soon as i realised as socially awkward expat kid that rpgs and rpg-adjacent wargames like Warhammer were >90% preparation and <10% actual playtime I was in.
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.
AI sloppery has ruined our tradition of photoshopping our family christmas cards. We are now thinking we might start having to add a disclaimer.
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
AI sloppery has ruined our tradition of photoshopping our family christmas cards. We are now thinking we might start having to add a disclaimer.
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?
youtu.be
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? 🤍
It lives!
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
It lives!
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.
Reposted by Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson
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)
Here are some links - CRiSAP on Resonance: extra.resonance.fm/series/liste... - and the FEFF: flatearthcinema.club
Resonance Extra
Resonance Extra is a 24/7 digital broadcasting platform dedicated to global music, sound art and radio art based at Resonance, London's community radio station for the arts.
extra.resonance.fm
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Here are some links - CRiSAP on Resonance: extra.resonance.fm/series/liste... - and the FEFF: flatearthcinema.club
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 ⚰️
I was using it recently and found this in both the UK and in Copenhagen. Buses that didn't exist (and had never existed) and directions that took me to the wrong place. Something has fallen off.
October 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I was using it recently and found this in both the UK and in Copenhagen. Buses that didn't exist (and had never existed) and directions that took me to the wrong place. Something has fallen off.
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
Joking aside, this particular family is closely tied up with some heavy and complicated feelings that my mother holds (and to some extend i do to) about that time in my family's life, crossing, as it does, the invasion and its immediate aftermath. So. 8 out of 10 spookies.
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Joking aside, this particular family is closely tied up with some heavy and complicated feelings that my mother holds (and to some extend i do to) about that time in my family's life, crossing, as it does, the invasion and its immediate aftermath. So. 8 out of 10 spookies.
Now, here's the thing. He died two days ago. His ghost is not visiting me in my dream. So I'm either psychicly linked to my mother (possibly), or I'm psychicly linked to my email inbox (oh).
October 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Now, here's the thing. He died two days ago. His ghost is not visiting me in my dream. So I'm either psychicly linked to my mother (possibly), or I'm psychicly linked to my email inbox (oh).