مؤلف: Sara Diamond

Sarah Cook is an internationally recognized curator of media art, a Reader within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, University of Sunderland, and co-founder and co-editor of CRUMB. She is the co-author with Beryl Graham of the book Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (MIT Press, 2010) and has chapters in many books, including New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (University of California Press, 2008) and Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse (MIT Press, 2010). In 2011 she co-chaired Rewire, the Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology with FACT in Liverpool. Having grown up in Canada, Sarah has a longstanding 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 in 2004, Sarah worked as adjunct curator of new media at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art funded by the AHRC. In 2008 Sarah was the inaugural curatorial fellow at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York, where she worked with the artists in labs to develop exhibitions of their work. Sarah has curated and co-curated international exhibitions, including Database Imaginary (2004), The Art Formerly Known As New Media (2005), Broadcast Yourself (2008), Untethered (2008), and Mirror Neurons (2012).