Dr Beryl Graham is Professor of New Media Art at the School of Arts, Design and Media, University

of Sunderland, and co-editor of CRUMB. She is a writer, curator and educator with many years of 

professional experience as a media arts organiser, and was head of the photography department at 

Projects UK, Newcastle, for six years. She curated the international exhibition Serious Games for the 

Laing and Barbican art galleries, and has also worked with The Exploratorium, San Francisco, and 

San Francisco Camerawork. Her Ph.D. concerned audience relationships with interactive art in 

gallery settings, and she has written widely on the subject for periodicals including Leonardo, Journal 

of Curatorial Studies, and Art Monthly. Her book Digital Media Art was published by Heinemann in 

2003, and she co-authored with Sarah Cook the book Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media for 

MIT Press in 2010. In 2014 she edited the book New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences (Ashgate). 

She has chapters in many books including New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (University of 

California Press), Theorizing digital cultural heritage (MIT Press) and Museum Media (Wiley-
Blackwell). Dr. Graham has been an invited speaker at conferences including Navigating Intelligence 

(Banff), Creativity and Cognition (Sydney), Decoding the Digital (Victoria and Albert Museum), and 

Cultural Value and the Digital (Tate Modern).