Mark Daniels 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, strategic 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 installation 'V.I.P. Room' by Beijing-based artists 8GG at Cornerhouse in Manchester and the 2007 VELOCITY Festival of Digital Culture.

In 2004 Mark was the International Exhibition Coordinator for the successful Liverpool Biennial, working closely with an invited selection of forty-eight artists on the development, budgeting and delivery of their projects. He was responsible for key new media projects including Jill Magid's 'Evidence Locker' project presented at FACT and Tate Liverpool, and Wong Hoy Cheong's 'Trigger'.

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 about 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.