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, Finland
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, Lapland 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, Rovaniemi, Finland
2004-2006 DVD Producer, Arctic Center, Arktikum, Rovaniemi Scriptwriting, directing, video restoration, editing, production.
1999-2007 Co-director / co-owner, Valotalo Productions, Helsinki / 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, Germany 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), Kemi-Tornio 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, Sweden
2014 Peri Photography Gallery, Turku
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, Narvik, Norway
2006 One Thousand Words, Valo Gallery, Rovaniemi
2005 Tampere 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, Joensuu 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, Oulu
2013 Bodies, Borders, Crossings, Museum of Photography, Oslo, Norway and Pori 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, Lappeenranta, 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, Russia
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 Midnight Sun 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, Hungary
2012 Maamme at Esplanad Stage, Helsinki
2011 Some we kept, some we threw back at Akbank Sanat Short Film Festival, Turkey
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, Stockholm, 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/Haparanda, 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 Barents region)
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 City 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)