Dr Sarah Cook
Dr Sarah Cook is a curator and writer and co-founder of CRUMB, the online resource for curators of
new media art. She is co-author (with Beryl Graham) of the book Rethinking Curating: Art After New
Media (MIT Press, 2010) and co-editor (with Sara Diamond) of Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New
Media Institute Dialogues (Banff Centre Press, 2011). Sarah has curated and co-curated international
exhibitions of contemporary art and new media art including:
Database Imaginary (2004) and The Art Formerly Known As New Media (2005) both for the Walter
Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre; Broadcast Yourself (2008) for AV Festival 08 in Newcastle;
Untethered (2008) for Eyebeam in New York; Q.E.D. (2011) for the AND Festival in Liverpool; Mirror
Neurons (2012) for National Glass Centre in Sunderland; Biomediations (2013) for Transitio_MX_05,
the festival of electronic arts and video in Mexico City; Not even the sky: Thomson & Craighead
(2013) for MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen. She is currently Dundee Fellow at Duncan of
Jordanstone College of Art & Design where she curates the programme for LifeSpace Science Art
Research Gallery and works as an associate curator with New Media Scotland and with NEoN Digital
Arts.