bio:
Sarah Cook is a curator and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and
co-author with Beryl Graham of the book Rethinking Curating: Art After New
Media (MIT Press, 2010). She is currently a Reader at
the University of Sunderland where she co-founded and co-edits CRUMB, the
online resource for curators of new media art and teaches on the MA Curating
course. In 2011 she will co-chair 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 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 the labs to develop
exhibitions of their work. For over ten years Sarah 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).
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I am based in Newcastle upon Tyne,
UK
I am an editor/researcher/co-founder of CRUMB
the online resource for curators of media art
I have a Masters degree from CCS at Bard,
and a PhD from the University of
Sunderland.
I teach on the Masters course in Curating
within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Sunderland
I am a trustee of folly
I have worked as an editor/researcher with the Banff New Media Institute,
Canada (2000-2009)
I was a cofounder with Saul Albert and sometime researcher of The Faculty of
Taxonomy
I am an occasional volunteer/programmer of the Star and Shadow Cinema
twitter: sarahecook
email: sarahdotedotcookatsunderlanddotacdotuk
Please get in touch for further information about my work,
including exhibition documentation and PDFs of published writings.
Q.E.D.
quod erat demonstrandum, LJMU Gallery, AND Festival, Liverpool, September
27 – October 2, 2011
Marina Zurkow: Elixir III, Siva Zona / grey ) ( area,
Korcula, Croatia, August 11 - August 27, 2010
The
Slow Flow Show (curatorial advisory role), The Green Bench, Whanganui, New
Zealand, January 31 - February, 2010
Subjective
Projections: Adam Shecter, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefelder, Germany,
September 23 - October 13, 2009
Beam Me Up, (online
commissions about outer space with work from Joe Winter, Jamie O’Shea and Alec
Finlay), Xcult.org, launched in June 2009
SCANZ
2009: Raranga Tangata, co-curated with Mercedes Vincente, Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, February 6 - February 29, 2009
Untethered:
A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, with work by
Max Dean, Thomson&Craighead, Michel de Broin, Joe Winter, JooYoun Paek,
Paul DeMarinis, Germaine Koh, Sascha Pohflepp and others, Eyebeam Art and
Technology Center, New York. September 25 - October 25, 2008
Vue des
Alpes (Studer/vdBerg), Add-art.org, June 19 - July 3, 2008
Broadcast
Yourself: Artists interventions into television and strategies for
self-broadcasting from the 1970s to Today, with
work from 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, Feb 28 - April 5 2008; Cornerhouse,
Manchester, June 13 - August 10, 2008
My Own
Private Reality: Growing up online in the 90s and 00s, co-curated with Sabine Himmelsbach, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg,
Germany, May 11 - July 1, 2007
The Art Formerly
Known As New Media
(Banff New Media Institute 10th Anniversary exhibition), co-curated with Steve
Dietz, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, September 18 - October 23, 2005.
Documentation at http://www.yproductions.com/projects/archives/000731.html
Relay: Germaine Koh. BALTIC
Centre for Contemporary Art, July - September, 2005.
Package Holiday: Monica Studer / Christoph van den
Berg BALTIC
Centre for Contemporary Art, July 8 - September 4, 2005.
Database
Imaginary
co-curated with Anthony Kiendl and Steve Dietz, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff,
November 21 2004 - January 23, 2005 and touring (Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina;
Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto; Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye
Bronfman Centre, Montreal).
Art for
Networks,
curated by Simon Pope, represented at Reg Vardy Gallery, University of
Sunderland, November 11 - December 12, 2003
Loop: Film Installations: Dara Friedman, Vibeke Tandberg,
Marijke van Warmerdam, Reg Vardy
Gallery,
University of Sunderland, January 22 - February 14, 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 July 2002.
Undelete, New work by Helena Swatton. Waygood Gallery and
Studios. Newcastle upon Tyne, July, 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,
January, 2001.
Use nor Ornament co-curated with Helen Smith and Ele Carpenter, Northern Gallery for
Contemporary Art, Sunderland, October 2000.
Co-edited with Sara Diamond (2011) Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues. Banff: Banff Centre Press and Toronto: Riverside Architectural Press, 2011.
“Participatory art (title tbc)” In: Samuel Bianchini and Erik Verhagen (eds.) Practicable. Lille, France: The Universities of Valenciennes and Lille (Calhiste, Ceac and Geriico Laboratories), 2012
Review of the exhibition “Nam June Paik” at FACT and Tate
Liverpool in: ETC. Revue de l’art actuel, issue
93, Montreal: 2011
“SBJDSC” In: Penny McCann (ed.) Public Domain. Ottawa: SAW Video, 2011.
Review of the exhibition “Feedfoward at LABoral” in: ETC.
Revue de l’art actuel, issue 89, Montreal: 2010
Interview with Susan Collins In: ETC. Revue de l’art
actuel, issue 88, Montreal: 2009
Review of the exhibition “Schematic: Canadian New Media
Art” In: ETC. Revue de l’art actuel, issue 86,
Montreal,: 2009
“Radical Art” In: Mike Stubbs and Karen Newman (eds.) We
Are the Real Time Experiment: 20 Years of FACT, Liverpool University Press, 2009
Arts
Overview » United Kingdom » Digital and Media » . In: China-UK Connections
Through Culture, London: The British Council, 2009.
(co-author with Beryl Graham)
“The Work of Art in the Age of Ubiquitous Narrowcasting?”
In: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.) VIDEO VORTEX Reader, Responses
to YouTube. Institute of Network Cultures,
Amsterdam, 2008.
“Network Memory: Always Live and yet Always and Archive”
In: Xandra Ededn (ed.) Lining of Forgetting
(exhibition catalogue), Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, N.C., 2007
Essay on the
work of David Rokeby In: Silicon Remembers Carbon (online catalogue), FACT, 2007
“Slow Down You Move Too Fast, Try to Make The Moment Last:
Reflections on Camera-Capturing in the Work of Monica Studer and Christoph van
den Berg”. In: Somewhere Else is the Same Place.
Solothurn: Kunstmuseum Solothurn. 2006. pp 62-71.
“The Logic of Historical Reenactment: Respeaking and
Remediation in Contemporary Art”. In: Sabine Himmelsbach (ed.) Playback_simulated
realites, Edith Russ Haus for Media Art, Oldenberg, Germany, 2007
Simon Pope
Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art, 2003. Interview conducted with Kris Cohen
online at http://venice.ambulantscience.org/documentation/interviews/catalogue_interview.html
“What Would Artificial Intelligence Find Aesthetically
Pleasing?: The burning question of generative art and its audience” In: Cornelia
Sollfrank
Net Art Generator, Verlag fur moderne Kunst
Nurnberg, 2004.
Vuk
Cosic
net.art per me, Venice Biennial, Absolute One,
2001.
James Hutchinson,
New Mapping, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland,
2000.
Other articles, reviews, and book reviews can be found
in ETC.Montreal, The Believer, Mute,
low-fi,
Public Art Journal, Art Monthly,
[a-n] Magazine, Cream,
Convergence Journal, and on the web.
Rethinking
Curating: Art After New Media, Cambridge: MIT
Press, 2010 (co-author with Beryl Graham). Read a review on Rhizome here.
“Presentation Strategies (title tbc)” In
Cosetta Saba, Julia Noordegraaf, Barbara Le Maître and Vinzenz Hediger (eds.) Preserving
and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives. (Framing Film Series), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
A
Brief History of Curating New Media Art: Conversations with Curators, Berlin: The Green Box, 2010 (co-editor with Axel Lapp, Beryl
Graham, Verina Gfader).
A
Brief History of Working With New Media Art: Conversations with Artists, Berlin: The Green Box, 2010 (co-editor with Axel Lapp, Beryl
Graham, Verina Gfader).
“Understanding Quality: Curatorial Strategies for Online
Artistic Production” In: Sophie Krier, ed. Me,
You, and Everyone We Know Is A Curator Journal.
Breda: Graphic Design Museum, 2010
“Immateriality and its discontents: models of curating new
media art”. In: Christiane Paul (ed.) Curating New Media. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2009.
Interview
with Regine Debatty of we-make-money-not-art.com, May 2007
Co-moderator of Code of Practice
online forum,
Tate, London, UK June 13 - July 18 2005.
Co-editor with Sara Diamond. Euphoria and Dystopia: The
Banff New Media Institute Dialogues, 1995-2005. Banff: Banff Centre Press,
forthcoming.
“Context Specific Curating on the Web (CSCW)”. In: Tom
Corby (ed.) Network Art: Practices and Positions,
London: Routledge, 2005.
“Digital art creation and curation in an online community”.
In: Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine (eds.) Theorising Futures For The
Past: Cultural Heritage And Digital Media. Australia: MIT Press,
forthcoming.
“Researching and
Presenting a History of New Media: Ten Years of the Banff New Media Institute”,
In: J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds.). Museums and the Web 2005: Proceedings, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics.
“Towards a Theory of New Media Curating”. In: Melanie
Townsend (ed.) Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices, Banff Centre Press, 2003.
Co-editor, Baltic
International Seminar - Curating New Media
(Proceedings from a seminar organised in May 2001)
AHRC-funded post-doctoral fellow, 2007 – 2010, University
of Sunderland and CRUMB. Co-investigator with Prof Beryl Graham, International
Networks and curating new media art, with partners Eyebeam (Amanda McDonald
Crowley) and University of Lancaster (Dr. Charlie Gere)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2006-2008, with the
University of Sunderland and CRUMB investigating technologies of simulation in
art, curating, and artists (self-)presentation online.
Lecturer - MA Curating, University of Sunderland (Module
CURM04 - Visions of Curating)
PhD Completed March 2004. The
Search for a Third Way of Curating New Media Art: Balancing Content and Context
in and out of the Institution.
Supported by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. My PhD
thesis includes theoretical and practical models of new media curatorial
practice in Canada researched while a fellow in Post-1970 Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada.
MA Completed
1998. Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard
College, NY. My thesis
exhibition,
au courant, investigated the electrical
infrastructure of new media works through the site-specific installations and
video by Keith Sonnier, Michel de Broin, Tatsuo Miyajima and Gary Hill.
September 2011 - Co-chair, Rewire: Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, FACT and LJMU.
February 2011 - “Participation and Engagement: Curating Contemporary Art after New Media”, College Art Association, 99th annual conference.
September 2010 - keynote lecture about art and time at the
Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam as part of their new Temporary Stedelijk project.
August 2010 - keynote at the International Seminar on Art and Technology at
Centro Multimedia / Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City
April and May 2010 – three week writing residency at SAW Video in
Ottawa for their Public Domain project.
April and May 2010 – invited speaker for talks about the
book Rethinking Curating at: National Gallery of
Canada; Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto; Hexagram, Concordia
University, Montreal; NT2 Lab at Universite du Quebec a Montreal; The Western
Front Society, Vancouver; The Banff New Media Institute; EMMEDIA, Calgary;
Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University.
April 2010 – chair and presenter, “Rethinking Curating:
Participative, Collaborative and Educational Turns in Contemporary Art” with
Maria Lind, Artists’ Space, New York
December 2009 – invited speaker, “Curatorial Strategies for
Online Artistic Production” at the symposium Me,
You, and Everyone We Know Is A Curator
organized by the Graphic Design Museum (Breda) at Paradiso, Amsterdam.
November 2009 – invited Masterclass presenter, “Networking
and Research” at Superhuman, organized by the Australian Network for Art and
Technology (ANAT), in Melbourne, Australia
October 2009 – invited speaker, “Aesthetics of new media: simulation”
at the symposium for the exhibition FEEDFORWARD, LABoral Centro de Arte y
Creación Industrial, Gijon, Spain
September 2009 - co-organizer and presenter, “Real Time:
Showing Art in the Age of New Media”, conference organized by CRUMB for the AND
Festival, FACT, Liverpool.
August 2009 - co-organizer and host, Open Bliss Workshops,
organized by CRUMB for ISEA 2009 in Belfast.
July 2009 - organizer and host, Curatorial
Masterclass Series, organized by CRUMB for Eyebeam Art and Technology
Center, New York.
May 2008 - invited speaker, Portraits of
Transculturalism - International Symposium, Sabanci University / Istanbul
Modern / Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
May 2008 - invited guest, Archive2020 expert meeting,
Virtueel Platform, Amsterdam
March 2009 - discussion chair and co-organiser, CRUMB-Culturelab
AHRC funded postgraduate research training event, Culturelab, University of
Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
March 2009 - invited speaker, Resolutely
Analogue? Art Museums in Digital Culture, Tate Research Encounters, Tate
Britain, UK
February 2009 - guest curator and invited speaker, SCANZ Residency,
Intercreate.org, New Plymouth, NZ
October 2008 - invited speaker, Curating New
Media Art, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 2008 - invited speaker, d.a.t.a. event 29 (Dublin Art
and Technology Association), Dublin, Ireland
March 2008 - co-organiser, Documenting
New Media Art Workshop, organized by CRUMB with Caitlin Jones, for AV
Festival 08: Broadcast, Newcastle upon Tyne. (Funded by Arts Council England
Inspiring Internationalists)
January 2008 - invited speaker, Curating Online Video, Video Vortex
conference, Institute for Network Cultures, Amsterdam
December 2007 - curator, Cory Arcangel performance, lecture
and screening of Untitled Translation Exercise,
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne (organized in conjunction with Film
and Video Umbrella, London, and the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art,
Sunderland). Funded by The Leverhulme Trust.
October 2007 - curator, Joseph DeLappe performance
dead-in-iraq
and in-conversation with Rod Dickinson, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
upon Tyne. Funded by The Leverhulme Trust.
August 2007 - Keynote speaker, Interactive Screen 07:
User-Friendly is not enough! The Banff New Media
Institute, Banff.
April 2007 - co-organiser and host, Crisis
to Bliss Centre workshops, organized by CRUMB for Enter Festival, Cambridge
UK
April 2007 - curator, Myron Campbell lecture/demonstration,
as part of polytechnic, plug and play night, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
upon Tyne.
November 2006 - invited speaker, panel on Curating New
Media Art, CHArt conference, London
August 2006 - organizer and host, Crisis to Bliss
workshops organized by CRUMB for ISEA 2006 / ZeroOne Festival of art on the
edge, San Jose, CA.
June 2006 - Informal New media books discussion: Charlie
Gere and Jon Ippolito in conversation, (co-hosted by Forma), Newcastle upon
Tyne
April 2006 - Speaker and workshop coordinator, Art Place
Technology conference, Liverpool John Moores University and FACT, Liverpool.
2005/2006 - co-initiator and consultant, Node London,.
December 2005 - Guest speaker, production labs for new
media art (on behalf of the Banff New Media Institute), Centre for Contemporary
Art, Andalucia, Seville, Spain.
December 2005 Panel convenor and chair, re-enactment in art
and technology (Simon Pope; Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie; Tom McCarthy; Mark
Waugh), Radiator Festival, Nottingham.
October 2005 visiting curator and guest lecturer, Virtual
Platform and Argos, Brussels.
August 2004 - Day to Day Data
workshops with Ellie Harrison at Angel's Row Gallery, Nottingham.
June/July 2004 - ISIS Arts
Residency with Saul Albert, establishing the Faculty of
Taxonomy
at the University of Openess
April 2004 - Simulation
and Other Re-enactments,
presentation at the Banff New Media Institute summit, with artists Ben Coode
Adams, Kris Cohen, Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie, Rod Dickinson, Iain Forsyth
& Jane Pollard, Marcus Coates, Jeremy Deller and others.
September 2003 - Databased Art event
(seminar and workshops and performance) at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art,
with Lev Manovich, Rupert Huber, Brian Duffy, Cornelia Sollfrank, Graham
Harwood, Steve Dietz and others.
November 2002 - Invited chair for the Remote Forum: Scottish
and international new media artists respond to the Scottish Highlands,
with the artists Radioqualia, Thomson & Craighead, Cavan Convery, Simon
Fildes and Katrina McPherson and the theorists Sean Cubitt and Lev Manovich.
Organized by New Media Scotland and Highland Research, Newtonmore, Scotland.
October 2002 - Bridges II: Collaborations in Art
and Science
(evening presentations with artists Thomson & Craighead, Margaret
Crane|Jon Winet and others), Banff New Media Institute, Banff Centre for the
Arts.
May 2002 - Guest lecturer, Digital Networks with Sean Dodson and Adrian Rifkin, The Photographers Gallery,
London, UK
January 2002 - Guest lecturer, Net Art and Art Criticism, Panel discussion with Tilman Baumgaertel, Frederic Madre, Harwood,
and JODI, organized by Josephine Bosma and Eric Kluitenberg at De Balie,
Amsterdam
December 2001 - Co-organiser and chair, Production, Distribution,
Consumption (curating new media)
seminar, Ottawa Art Gallery.
I worked at the Walker
Art Center
in Minneapolis for a year as a curatorial research intern working with the
permanent collection and helping curate exhibitions of work by Andy Warhol,
Lorna Simpson, Yayoi Kusama and others. After leaving I also worked with Steve
Dietz and the New Media Initiatives Department to organize and moderate an on-line forum,
concerning art, entertainment and technology.
I worked at the National
Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, organizing an exhibition from the Art Metropole archive of conceptual
art, Fluxus, artists' books and multiples.
In December 1999 I curated First
Descent,
an exhibition of art and artifacts from snowboard culture, for the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, and Bellevue Art Museum,
Seattle.
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