Sarah Cook is a Scotland-based Canadian scholar. She is well known as a 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.[1] In 2013 she was appointed as a Reader and Dundee Research Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee. As part of her role as Dundee Fellow she founded and curated LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery in the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee (2014-2018). She is a trustee of folly[2] in Lancaster.
In 2018 she joined the Department of Information Studies at University of Glasgow as Professor in Museum Studies. 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.
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.[3][4] In collaboration with Beryl Graham, she authored the seminal Rethinking Curating – Art after New Media (2010), and also co-edited A Brief History of Curating New Media Art - Conversations with Curators (2010) and A Brief History of Working with New Media Art - Conversations with Artists (2010). She edited the book Information (Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel and MIT Press, 2016) and was curator and editor of 24/7: A Wake-up Call For Our Non-stop World (Somerset House, 2019).
In 2011, she co-chaired Re:wire, the Fourth International Conference on the histories of media, science and technology in art with FACT in Liverpool.[5] She is Co-Curator at NEoN Festival, Dundee. She chairs the annual symposium at NEoN Festival and in 2019 co-chaired Re@ct: Social Change, Art and Technology in Dundee. She was a founding member of the advisory board of the Journal of Curatorial Studies.[6]
Publicationsedit
Sarah Cook & Beryl Graham, Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. ISBN978-0-262-01388-8.
Sarah Cook, Verina Gfader, Beryl Graham & Axel Lapp, A Brief History of Curating New Media Art - Conversations with Curators, Berlin: The Green Box, 2010. ISBN978-3-941644-20-5.
Sarah Cook, Verina Gfader, Beryl Graham & Axel Lapp, A Brief History of Working with New Media Art - Conversations with Artists, Berlin: The Green Box, 2010. ISBN978-3-941644-21-2.
Broadcast Yourself: Artists interventions into television and strategies for self-broadcasting from the 1970s to Today, with work by Shaina Anand, Active Ingredient, Miranda July, Doug Hall and Chip Lord, Bill Viola, Chris Burden, VGTV, Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie and others, co-curated with Kathy Rae Huffman for AV Festival 08: Broadcast. Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, 2008; Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2008
My Own Private Reality: Growing up online in the 90s and 00s, co-curated with Sabine Himmelsbach, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg, Germany, 2007
The Art Formerly Known As New Media (Banff New Media Institute 10th Anniversary exhibition), co-curated with Steve Dietz, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, 2005.[7]
Relay: Germaine Koh, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, 2005.
Package Holiday: Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, 2005.
Database Imaginary, co-curated with Anthony Kiendl and Steve Dietz, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, 2004/05 and touring (Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina; Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto; Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal).
Loop: Film Installations: Dara Friedman, Vibeke Tandberg, Marijke van Warmerdam, Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland, 2003.
Monument by Margaret Crane | Jon Winet, commissioned by Locus+, Newcastle upon Tyne, funded by the Arts Council of England New Media Projects Fund, launched 2002.
Undelete, New work by Helena Swatton. Waygood Gallery and Studios. Newcastle upon Tyne, 2001.
Vuk Cosic www.thisistherealmatrix.com for BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, online commission as part of A History of the Future, organised by Northern Architecture, 2001.
Use nor Ornament, co-curated with Helen Smith and Ele Carpenter, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 2000.
Scales of Life, LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery, Dundee, October 1 2014/15
Alt-w (invited curatorial project with New Media Scotland), SSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2014
Material Concerns, LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery, Dundee, 2015
Hearts & Minds (with Aidan Moesby, Jim Pattison, and others), LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery, Dundee, with the Hannah Maclure Centre, Abertay University, 2015
A Working Model of the World (touring exhibition from UNSW Galleries Sydney the Sheila C. Johnson Design Centre and The Curators' Department), at LifeSpace, 2018
Footnotesedit
^"CRUMB - Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss - Home". www.crumbweb.org. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^"Folly". www.folly.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^"Sarah Cook | eyebeam.org". www.eyebeam.org. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
^"Interview with Sarah Cook". Rhizome. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
^. Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
^Cook, Sarah. "Sarah Cook". www.sarahcook.info. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
An Interview with curator and CRUMB co-founder Sarah Cook, Artengine 2010
Sarah Cook Information Site
Sarah Cook Interview for "Artist Mentor"
April 12, 2024
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Sarah Cook is a Scotland based Canadian scholar She is well known as a 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 1 In 2013 she was appointed as a Reader and Dundee Research Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art University of Dundee As part of her role as Dundee Fellow she founded and curated LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery in the School of Life Sciences University of Dundee 2014 2018 She is a trustee of folly 2 in Lancaster Sarah CookBorn 1974 12 28 December 28 1974NationalityCanadianEducationUniversity of SunderlandKnown forscholar historian and curatorIn 2018 she joined the Department of Information Studies at University of Glasgow as Professor in Museum Studies 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 Contents 1 Biography 2 Publications 3 Exhibitions 4 Footnotes 5 External linksBiography editCook 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 3 4 In collaboration with Beryl Graham she authored the seminal Rethinking Curating Art after New Media 2010 and also co edited A Brief History of Curating New Media Art Conversations with Curators 2010 and A Brief History of Working with New Media Art Conversations with Artists 2010 She edited the book Information Documents of Contemporary Art Whitechapel and MIT Press 2016 and was curator and editor of 24 7 A Wake up Call For Our Non stop World Somerset House 2019 In 2011 she co chaired Re wire the Fourth International Conference on the histories of media science and technology in art with FACT in Liverpool 5 She is Co Curator at NEoN Festival Dundee She chairs the annual symposium at NEoN Festival and in 2019 co chaired Re ct Social Change Art and Technology in Dundee She was a founding member of the advisory board of the Journal of Curatorial Studies 6 Publications editSarah Cook amp Beryl Graham Rethinking Curating Art After New Media Cambridge Mass MIT Press 2010 ISBN 978 0 262 01388 8 Sarah Cook Verina Gfader Beryl Graham amp Axel Lapp A Brief History of Curating New Media Art Conversations with Curators Berlin The Green Box 2010 ISBN 978 3 941644 20 5 Sarah Cook Verina Gfader Beryl Graham amp Axel Lapp A Brief History of Working with New Media Art Conversations with Artists Berlin The Green Box 2010 ISBN 978 3 941644 21 2 Exhibitions editSubjective Projections Adam Shecter invited artist Bielefelder Kunstverein Bielefelder Germany 2009 Beam Me Up online commissions about outer space with work from Joe Winter Jamie O Shea and Alec Finlay Xcult org launched in 2009 SCANZ 2009 Raranga Tangata co curated with Mercedes Vincente Govett Brewster Art Gallery New Plymouth New Zealand 2009 Untethered A Sculpture Garden of Readymades with work by Max Dean Thomson amp Craighead Michel de Broin Joe Winter JooYoun Paek Paul DeMarinis Germaine Koh Sascha Pohflepp and others Eyebeam Art and Technology Center New York 2008 Vue des Alpes Studer vdBerg Add art org 2008 Broadcast Yourself Artists interventions into television and strategies for self broadcasting from the 1970s to Today with work by Shaina Anand Active Ingredient Miranda July Doug Hall and Chip Lord Bill Viola Chris Burden VGTV Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie and others co curated with Kathy Rae Huffman for AV Festival 08 Broadcast Hatton Gallery University of Newcastle 2008 Cornerhouse Manchester 2008 My Own Private Reality Growing up online in the 90s and 00s co curated with Sabine Himmelsbach Edith Russ Haus Oldenburg Germany 2007 The Art Formerly Known As New Media Banff New Media Institute 10th Anniversary exhibition co curated with Steve Dietz Walter Phillips Gallery Banff 2005 7 Relay Germaine Koh BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art 2005 Package Holiday Monica Studer Christoph van den Berg BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art 2005 Database Imaginary co curated with Anthony Kiendl and Steve Dietz Walter Phillips Gallery Banff 2004 05 and touring Dunlop Art Gallery Regina Blackwood Gallery University of Toronto Liane and Danny Taran Gallery Saidye Bronfman Centre Montreal Loop Film Installations Dara Friedman Vibeke Tandberg Marijke van Warmerdam Reg Vardy Gallery University of Sunderland 2003 Monument by Margaret Crane Jon Winet commissioned by Locus Newcastle upon Tyne funded by the Arts Council of England New Media Projects Fund launched 2002 Undelete New work by Helena Swatton Waygood Gallery and Studios Newcastle upon Tyne 2001 Vuk Cosic www thisistherealmatrix com for BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead online commission as part of A History of the Future organised by Northern Architecture 2001 Use nor Ornament co curated with Helen Smith and Ele Carpenter Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Sunderland 2000 Scales of Life LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery Dundee October 1 2014 15 Alt w invited curatorial project with New Media Scotland SSA Annual Exhibition Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh 2014 Material Concerns LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery Dundee 2015 Hearts amp Minds with Aidan Moesby Jim Pattison and others LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery Dundee with the Hannah Maclure Centre Abertay University 2015 A Working Model of the World touring exhibition from UNSW Galleries Sydney the Sheila C Johnson Design Centre and The Curators Department at LifeSpace 2018Footnotes edit CRUMB Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss Home www crumbweb org Retrieved 1 November 2017 Folly www folly co uk Retrieved 1 November 2017 Sarah Cook eyebeam org www eyebeam org Retrieved 27 January 2016 Interview with Sarah Cook Rhizome Retrieved 1 February 2016 Rewire Conference 2011 Archived from the original on 13 November 2010 Retrieved 26 July 2010 Cook Sarah Sarah Cook www sarahcook info Retrieved 9 March 2021 http www yproductions com projects archives 000731 htmlExternal links editCRUMB Star and Shadow Cinema Newcastle The Green Box An Interview with curator and CRUMB co founder Sarah Cook Artengine 2010 Sarah Cook Information Site Sarah Cook Interview for Artist Mentor Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sarah Cook curator amp oldid 1218363783, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
