About Us
New Media Scotland supports experimentation by practitioners in art and technology. Through working with and supporting the presentation of work by artists in this field, we hope to foster greater public understanding of the role that technology is playing in contemporary culture.

Our aim
We exist to support practitioners working at the intersection of art, technology and science. By supporting emergent practice we aim to encourage greater appreciation of the interrelatedness of these fields.

• Programming and presenting work, both through partnering with existing institutions and directly
• Commissioning and Co-Commissioning new work
• Providing Professional Development Opportunities
• Supporting Research and Development initiatives, particularly within a collaborative framework
• Expanding the perception and reception of this work through debate, discussion, networking, information exchange, critical reviews, and holding roundtables
• Providing quality arts experiences to the widest possible audiences

Staff Biographies

Mark Daniels is Executive Director of New Media Scotland. Mark brings to New Media Scotland a strong background in arts management and new media. From 2005 Mark worked as Programme Manager at folly, the Lancaster-based media arts organisation, where he gained valuable experience in fundraising, strategy and programme development. He was responsible for delivering a distributed programme of exhibitions, events, workshops and commissions across the North West of England and online. Recent notable projects included the 2007 VELOCITY Festival of Digital Culture and the touring installation 'V.I.P. Room' by Beijing-based artists 8GG at Cornerhouse in Manchester.

In 2004 Mark was the International Exhibition Coordinator for the highly successful Liverpool Biennial, working closely with an invited selection of forty-eight artists on the development and delivery of their projects. Key new media projects included Jill Magid's 'Evidence Locker/Retrieval Room' at Tate Liverpool, FACT and online and Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg's 'Sugar Seekers' at Tate Liverpool.

From 1998-2002 he was Programme Director for Northern Architecture based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne where he developed a cultural programme of architecture and design related activity across the North East and Cumbria. Selected projects included 'Commodity, Firmness & Delight' an exhibition inspired by the Japanese Love Hotel which toured to The Lighthouse in Glasgow in 2002 and 'Sitooteries', a collection of summer houses and installations by artists, architects and designers for Belsay Hall in rural Northumberland in 2000.

Mark originally trained as an architect and obtained an MA in Art as Environment from Manchester Metropolitan University. He completed his research at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.

Luke Collins is the Programmes Associate of New Media Scotland. He recently completed his MFA at the Glasgow School of Art, supported by a Leverhulme scholarship. He has previously worked at Dundee Contemporary Arts and Variant Magazine as well as doing digital freelance and installation work for a number of galleries and arts organisations around the UK. As a practicing artist Luke has worked across digital video, performance, sculpture and audio and continues to present projects and exhibitions. He has shown widely across the UK and internationally as well as making collaborative projects (including co-curating a raucous cabaret event at Generator Projects (Dundee) with Stephen Murray and installing a life sized plastic horse in the Project Room (Glasgow) with Grier Edmundson). In 2004 Luke was digital artist in residence at Queen St Studios, Belfast .

Kristina Johansen is the Audience Development and Marketing Associate of New Media Scotland. Kristina recently completed her MSc in History, Theory and Display at the University of Edinburgh and has worked at a variety of arts organizations throughout the UK including The National Galleries of Scotland, Hauser & Wirth London and The Tate St Ives.  Most recently at The Fruitmarket Gallery, in her role as a marketing assistant, she participated in a re-evaluation of the way in which audience was monitored and assessed.  She is also a freelance arts educator and writer and continues to work on her own collaborative projects.