Mark Roberts Born 1970, Canterbury, England +358 40 7580433 [email protected] www.rainioroberts.com

Education

2007-2009 MA Film Screenwriting (Distinction) University of Salford, Manchester, England / TAMK,

1996-1999 BA (Hons) Photography (First) The Surrey Institute of Art & Design University College., England

1995-1996 HNC Photography & Multimedia (Distinction) College of North East London, England

Employment

2015- 2018 Screenwriter and Content Creator, Space Nation / Cohu Experience Screenwriter for Space Nation astronaut training app and series iOS / Android / online / TV series (streaming and aired)

2011- 2012 Creative Director, Studio Creative lead and writer for iOS/PC game developer

2009-present Freelance Copywriter & Scriptwriter. Clients: Fragment Games, Flatlight Creative House, Luxury Action, Lapland Film Commission, University of Lapland Press, Puisto Advertising Agency

2004-present Artist / Filmmaker, funded by grants from Finnish state and public sector organisations (see grants list below)

2009-present Owner, Backpacking North (www.backpackingnorth.com) Writer / Photographer

2005-2016 Founder, Curator and Board Member of Magneetti Northern Media Culture Association, , Finland

2004-2006 DVD Producer, Center, Arktikum, Rovaniemi Scriptwriting, directing, video restoration, editing, production.

1999-2007 Co-director / co-owner, Valotalo Productions, / Rovaniemi Clients: Helsinki Juhlaviikot, Avanto Festival, MTV3, Mesta Construction, Honka, Meteori.net, Helsingin Vihreat.

1999-2001 Copywriter / Concept Designer, Satama Interactive, Helsinki - Nokia Mobile Phones, Nokia Networks, nokia.com, Club Nokia, Sonera

1991-1994 Volunteer Coordinator, Joanne Trust, Bucharest, Romania

Filmography

2017 They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains, single-channel cinemascope film / 19:00 2016 Entangled, single-channel HD video / 10:00 2014 How Everything Turns Away, three-channel HD video installation / 24:00 2014 The Factory of the World, single-channel HD video / 7:30 2012 Maamme / Värt Land, six-channel HD video installation / 3:00 2012 Maamme / Värt Land, single-channel HD video / 3:00 2010 Some we kept, some we threw back, single-channel HD video / 8:00 2009 Why do you want to have a child?, single-channel HD video / 45:00 2008 Eight Rooms, eight-channel video installation / 20:00 2006 Angles of Incidence, three-channel video installation / 14:00 2004 Borderlands, three-channel video installation / 24:00

Films in Competition (Official Selection)

They Came in Crowded Boats & Trains Camden International Film Festival, Camden (MA), USA [2017] Aesthetica Film Festival, York, UK

The Factory of the World (2014) Festival Internationale du Film d’Environement, Paris, France Punto de Vista International, Pamplona, Spain Helsinki Short Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland Interfilm, Berlin, Leiden International Short Film Experience, Germany

Screenwriting Competition Placements

Quarterfinalist, Screenwriting Goldmine, 2014 The Wild Goose Chase

Quarterfinalist, Silver Screenwriting Competition, 2009 The Ungrateful Dead

Works in Collections Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Helsinki Art Museum Korundi Art Museum Rovaniemi Art Museum Jenny and Antti Wihuri Collection

Teaching, Seminars and Public Lectures

2012 Game Development course at Rovaniemi Lukio

2010 Seminars and student critiques at University of Denver, Colorado

2010 Public discussion at Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis

2009 Public presentation at Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis

2009 Public presentation and student critiques at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

2006 Seminar presentation for Art in the North seminars, Rovaniemi, Finland

2005 Seminar presentation for Leaps of Faith exhibition, Nicosia, Cyprus

2000 Teaching ‘Interactive Technologies’ module for E.M.M.A.B.A. (European Masters in Multimedia and Audiovisual Business Administration), - Polytechnic and University of Lapland

Selected Solo Exhibitions (including ‘Rainio & Roberts’ exhibitions)

2018 They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains, HAM, Helsinki

2016 Forum Box (Media Box), Helsinki, Finland

2015 Luleå Kulturenshus, Konsthallen,

2014 Peri Photography Gallery,

2012 Finnish Museum of Photography (Project Space), Helsinki

2010 Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis

2009 Borderlands, Finnish Cultural Institute, Paris

2008 Eight Rooms, Korjaamo, Helsinki

2008 Rovaniemi Art Museum

2006 Gallery Black Box, Winterfest, ,

2006 One Thousand Words, Valo Gallery, Rovaniemi

2005 Film Festival, Työväen Keskusmuseo Werstas, Tampere

2004 Aine Art Museum, Tornio

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Riga International Contemporary Art Biennial, Riga, Latvia

2018 Territories, Havremagasinit, Boden, Sweden

2017 Turku Art Biennale, Turku, Finland (Awarded Biennial Prize)

2015 Mänttän kuvataideviikot / Mänttä Art Festival, Finland

2015 How to Read in the Dark, Art Museum, Finland; NOASS Floting Gallery, Riga, Lativa; Tartu Kunstimaja, Estonia; Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany.

2014 Bodies, Borders, Crossings, ICPNA, Lima, Peru, and MEC/ Sala Idea Vilariño/Punto de Encuentro Montevideo, Uruguay.

2014 What's Up North? Northern Photographic Center,

2013 Bodies, Borders, Crossings, Museum of Photography, , Norway and Art Museum, Finland

2013 X-Border Art Biennale, Luleå, Sweden

2012 Snowball Effect, North Finland Art Biennale, Oulu Art Museum

2012 PolArt 2012, Kemi Art Museum

2011 The Magic of Lapland, Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland

2011 Art Museum Korundi, Rovaniemi, Finland

2011 Bodies, Borders, Crossings, Governors Island, New York

2010 almos(t)here, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, USA www.almosthere.us

2009 Home Today, Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland

2009 Festival “Des Frontieres et des Hommes”, Thionville, France

2008 International Design Bienalle, St. Etienne, France

2008 Borderlives, Ludwig Forum für International Kunst, Aachen, Gerrmany and Kiel, Germany

2008 North Karjala Art Museum, , Finland

2007 Border Crossing Exercises, Festspillene, Harstadt, Norway

2006 Talvimaa – Winterland, Finnish Photography Triennale, Salo Art Museum

2005 Barents Triennale (Border Dialogues), Kirkenes, Norway Leaps of Faith, Nicosia, Cyprus Locus Lophem, Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium On the Earth and Under the Sky, Media Center Vyhod, Petroskoi,

2004 Faster Than History, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. Disposable Histories, PANG, Rovaniemi

2003 Migration, Sound installation, Lok-Stall, Kirkenes, Norway

2001 Ääniä Valossa and Silent Disco, Valonvoima festival, Helsinki

1999 Created Space, Atrium Gallery, Whiteleys, London Ympäri, Laterna Magica Gallery, Helsinki

1999 InSight, BA Photography Degree Show, The Mall Gallery, London, England

1998 Polaroid, Interactive public art project, Farnham, England

Festival Screenings

2018 They Came in Crowded Boats & Trains, Camden International Film Festival, Camden (MA), USA [in competition]

2018 They Came in Crowded Boats & Trains, Aesthetica Film Festival, York, UK [in competition]

2017 Entangled, Dokuma Film Festival, Makarska, Croatia. [in competition]

2016 The Factory of the World at Festival Internationale du Film d’Environement, Paris (in competition)

2016 The Factory of the World at Punto de Vista International Documentary Competition (in competition).

2015 The Factory of the World, Helsinki Short Film Festival (Documentary Competition)

2015 The Factory of the World at Interfilm, Berlin (Documentary Competition)

2015 The Factory of the World at Film Festival, Sodankylä, Finland

2015 The Factory of the World at Leiden International Short Film Festival, Netherlands

2014 The Factory of the World at Mediawave Festival,

2012 Maamme at Esplanad Stage, Helsinki

2011 Some we kept, some we threw back at Akbank Sanat Short Film Festival,

2010 Some we kept, some we threw back at Arctic Fury Film Festival, Rovaniemi

2008 Terra Incognita at Lens Politica, Helsinki

2007 Europe and Its Others. Interceptions of Past, Present and Future. Conference in the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

2007 Locations of Emancipation –conference, University of Lapland

2007 Borderlands – To Live at the Border conference, , Sweden

2005 DKSG, Belgrade, Serbia

2004 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, various locations, Paris

Grants & Awards 2018: Turku Biennial Prize 2017: Arts Promotion Centre, Finland [media art production grant] 2016: SES – Travel Grant (Festival Screening) 2016: Arts Promotion Center Finland (Media Art Production Grant) 2015: Finnish Culture Foundation (Lapland) (Artist Grant – 1 year) 2015: AVEK Travel Grant 2015: Arts Promotion Center Finland (Public Display Grant) 2014: Arts Promotion Center Lapland (Artist Grant) 2014: Arts Promotion Center Finland (Exhibition Grant) 2014: Arts Promotion Center Finland (Multidisciplinary Art Grant) 2014: Arts Promotion Center Finland (Media Art Production Grant) 2013: Arts Promotion Center Lapland (Artist Grant) 2012: AVEK (Media Art Production) 2012: Svenska Kulturfonden (Media Art Production) 2012: Stiftelsen Tre Smeder (Media Art Production) 2012: William Thurings stiftelse (Media Art Production) 2011: Arts Council of Finland (Artistic Production Grant) 2010: SES – Scriptwriting Grant 2010: Arts Council of Finland (Media art grant) 2009: FRAME (Publication Grant) 2009: AVEK (Media Art Production Grant) 2008: Finnish Culture Foundation (Lapland) (Artist Grant - 1 year) 2008: Arts Council of Finland (Media art grant) 2008: AVEK (Eight Rooms Exhibition) 2008: Lapland Arts Council (Eight Rooms Exhibition) 2007: Arts Council of Finland (Media art grant) 2007: Finnish Culture Foundation (Finland) (Artist Grant – 1 year) 2007: FRAME residency grant 2006: Lapland Arts Council (Exhibition expenses grant) 2006: AVEK (Media Art Grant) 2006: Arts Council of Finland (Media art grant) 2006: Finnish Culture Foundation (Lapland) (Artist Grant) 2005: Arts Council of Finland (Production grant) 2005: AVEK (Media art production grant) 2005: Lapland Arts Council (Artist Residency grant) 2005: POEM (Production grant) 2005: Arts Council of Finland (Public Display grant) 2005: AVEK (Media art grant) 2005: Lapland Arts Council (Artist Grant) 2005: Arts Council of Finland (Media art grant) 2004: Alfred Kordelin Foundation (Production grant) 2004: Arts Council of Finland (Publicity costs grant) 2004: AVEK (Scriptwriting) 2004: POEM (POEMdocs pre-production grant) 2003: POEM (POEMdocs production grant) 2003: AVEK (Media Art) 2003: Finnish Culture Foundation (Lapland) (Festival Grant) 2003: LUSES (Festival Production Grant) 2002: Arts Council of Finland (Media art grant) 2000: Arts Council of Finland (Travel grant) 1999: Helsinki Culture Foundation (Production grant)

Residencies

June 2013 Nordic Baltic AiR Residency, Tromsø, Norway January – February 2007 Platform Garanti contemporary art centre, Istanbul, Turkey June – July 2006 Berlin Artists Residency, Lapland Arts Council January 2005 Berlin Artists Residency, Lapland Arts Council

Projects & Workshops

2007-2008 Limited invitation to create sound installation for new Sami University in Nuorgam, Norway. 1 of 5 participating artists.

2006 Lapin Lisä Script development programme, Tornio, Finland (Special Commendation)

2003-2005 POEMdocs 01 & 02 Documentary and media production planning and scriptwriting project. Oulu, Finland

Curatorial Activities

2014-2015 POLARIZED:Vision, Rovaniemi, Finland

2013 Import / Export exhibition, Tornio/, Finland/Sweden

2010 & 2011 INSIDE / OUTSIDE exhibition, Rovaniemi, Finland

2010 Almos(t)here exhibition, Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, USA

2003-2006 Kaiku Festival, Rovaniemi, Finland

Publications

2016 Introduction to exhibition leaflet for Tuukka Kaila solo show.

2014 "Some Words About Pictures", in "Everything I now have, one day I will have lost", Tuukka Kaila

2013 Bodies, Borders, Crossings, exhibition catalogue

2011 The Magic of Lapland, exhibition catalogue

2010 Franklin ArtWorks exhibition catalogue

2006 Talvimaa – Winterland exhibition catalogue Salo Art Museum / Musta taide

2006 Northern Visions – 2 disc DVD set Afbare (Arctic documentary films at risk in )

2005 Leaps of Faith – Exhibition catalogue

2004 Faster Than History – Exhibition catalogue Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki

2004 Framework – Finnish Art Review 1/2004

2003 Askeleita yli rajan, Article AVEK-magazine 1/2003

2001 POINT Art and Design Research Journal 1I

2001 Avanto Festival 2001 CD insert

Sound Performances

Infinite Monkeys [with Antoine Verhaverbeke] - Roihuvuori Literature Festival [Helsinki 2018]

Two Sides (Divided by the River Tigris) - Vitus Festival, Rovaniemi, Finland

The in Pieces (Berlinstambul) - Placard headphone festival / Pixelache, Kiasma, Helsinki (2007)

Working Space / Surface Time (with John Court) - Forum Box, Helsinki (2004); Center for Marginal Arts, Joensuu (2004); Aine Art Museum, Tornio (2004); La-Bas Festival, Oulun Taidekoulu, Oulu (2004)

Kelly / Roberts / Verhaverbeke (laptop trio) - Kaiku01 Festival, Rovaniemi (2003 - Dotcoma club, Saunabar, Helsinki (2002) - La-Bas, Cable Factory, Helsinki (2002) - Amorph01! Festival, Gloria, Helsinki (2001)

Roberts / Verhaverbeke (laptop duo) - Betonirock, Jyväskylä (2002)

Keränen / Roberts / Verhaverbeke (laptop trio) - Dotcoma club, Saunabar Helsinki (2001)

Published sound works Apart, self-released mp3, (2014) How Everything Turns Away, Kaiku Records mp3.08 (2007) Surfaces, Kaiku Records CD-R 01 (2006) St. Petersburg: Field Recordings, Dotcoma Recordings CD-R 01 (2003) Diseases, Dotcoma Recordings CD-R 02 (2002)