Sarah Cook (curator)


Sarah Cook is a Canadian scholar, historian and curator in the field of New Media art. Cook was a Research Fellow at the University of Sunderland, where she worked with the research institute CRUMB – Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss, that she co-founded with Beryl Graham in 2000, and taught on the MA Curating course. In 2013 she was appointed as a Reader and Dundee Research Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee. She is a trustee of folly in Lancaster.
For many years, she has curated exhibitions of New Media art and was instrumental in establishing New media as an academic subject and an accepted art form.

Biography

Cook received her Masters from the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard College and her PhD from the University of Sunderland. She writes on new media arts and lectures on art and technology. Cook was an Eyebeam Fellow in 2008. In collaboration with Beryl Graham, she authored the seminal Rethinking Curating – Art after New Media, and also co-edited A Brief History of Curating New Media Art - Conversations with Curators and A Brief History of Working with New Media Art - Conversations with Artists.
In 2011, she co-chaired, the Fourth International Conference on the histories of media, science and technology in art with FACT in Liverpool.

Publications