Sarah Cook
Curator and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Sunderland, UK where she co-founded and co-edits CRUMB, the online resource for curators of new media art. In 2008 she was the inaugural curatorial fellow at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York, where she worked with the artists in the labs to develop exhibitions of their work. For over ten years she has curated and co-curated international exhibitions including Database Imaginary (2004), The Art Formerly Known As New Media (2005), Package Holiday (2005), Broadcast Yourself (2008) and Untethered (2008). She teaches on the MA Curating Course at Sunderland and is often a member of art residency and commission jury panels.
Having grown up in Canada, Sarah has a long-standing association with The Banff Center where she has worked as a guest curator and researcher in residence for the Walter Phillips Gallery, the International Curatorial Institute and the New Media Institute, developing exhibitions, summits, residencies and publications. After completing her PhD, from 2000 to 2005, Cook worked as adjunct curator of new media at BALTIC. Her book “Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media” (co-authored with Beryl Graham) will be published by MIT Press in Jan 2010.
