Sarah Cook (curator)

rdf:langString Sarah Cook (curator)

rdf:langString Sarah Cook

rdf:langString Sarah Cook

rdf:langString scholar, historian and curator

rdf:langString Canadian

rdf:langString 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. 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.