Sarah Cook
Curator and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is currently a Reader 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. She is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Curatorial Studies and co-chaired Rewire, the Fourth International Conference on the histories of media art, science and technology with FACT in Liverpool (2011).
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. She co-authored book Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (with Beryl Graham, MIT Press, 2010).
