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Jackson originally studied fine art, having a degree in painting from the University of East London and an Master of Arts in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Artist
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He taught on Master of Arts Sound Arts at London College of Communication from 2008 to 2014 and Bachelor Fine Art at Southampton Solent University from 2013 to 2014. He currently teaches art history and critical theory at Northumbria University, Newcastle
Jackson has been the curator at Institute of Microtechnology Gallery since the gallery was founded in 2005, specialising in sound art and audiovisual practice, and curating exhibitions including 2010"s Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William South. Burroughs, an exhibition of unreleased experiments with audio tape by William South. Burroughs. He is an authority on Burroughs"s experiments with tape, researching a Doctor of Philosophy on the tape experiments at University of the Arts London, supervised by Angus Carlyle, and speaking on Burroughs at conferences including Beyond the Cut-up: William South. Burroughs and the Image at the The Photographers" Gallery and the Sound Art Curating conference at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie. In 2014 he composed This is a game called ‘Hello, hello, here is X.X.’ a limited-edition art-work in the form of a vinyl made from a recorded interview between Burroughs and journalist Roger Clarke.
