Sarah Cook (curator)

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.

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. 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.

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. 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).

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. 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 in Lancaster.