Raised in rural Ontario and urban Japan, Mark graduated from the University of Toronto with an HBA in World Literature and East Asian Studies before heading-up the English Literature department at one of Korea's top high schools. He specializes in managing diverse, cross-media projects, having blogged around the world on exitnotebook.com, directed "May God Make It Easy", an Arabic-language documentary on youth employment in Cairo, worked as the community manager for online contest startup, Strutta, and been published in an anthology of young Canadian writers.
Through the MDM, Mark is involved in projects like Fluxus, Tank Farm, Deadbook and the multimedia community development platform for Saturna Island, that explore and push the boundaries of interactive narrative.