Professor Sarah Cook

  • Professor in Museum Studies (Information Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 5104
email: Sarah.Cook@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241

Research interests

Professor Sarah Cook is a curator and writer specialising in contemporary art at the intersection of digital creativity, technology and science. Until 2019 she was a curator for NEoN (NorthEast of North), Scotland’s only digital art festival and was founder/curator of LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery in the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee (2013-2018).  

Sarah has curated and co-curated international exhibitions worldwide for twenty years including: Sleep Mode (2020) and 24/7: A Wake-up Call For Our Non-stop World (2019) both at Somerset House in London; The Gig Is Up (2016) at V2_Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam; New Media Scotland Alt-w (2014) at the Royal Scottish Academy, SSA Annual Exhibition in Edinburgh; Not even the sky: Thomson & Craighead (2013) at MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen; Biomediations (2013) at Transitio_MX_05, the festival of electronic arts and video in Mexico City; Broadcast Yourself (2008) for AV Festival 08 in Newcastle; Database Imaginary (2004) and The Art Formerly Known As New Media (2005) both for the Walter Phillips Gallery, in Banff, Canada.

Her latest projects include:

Publications

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Number of items: 110.

2024

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Research. at Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic Research, Umeå, Sweden, 4-6 December 2024. (Accepted for Publication)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) The patchy history of artists and electronics: typewriter, telephone, television, telecommunications. In: Ravaglia, Val (ed.) Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet. Tate Publishing. (Accepted for Publication)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) The production, exhibition, and interpretation of art after new media. In: Kang, Yumi (ed.) Digital Culture and Art Museums. Series: Seo-Seoul Museum of Art Research Series. Seoul Metropolitan Government. (Accepted for Publication)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) The wicked problem of generated art and the terms and conditions of art-making in an age of AI. Open Symposium on Wicked Problems and AI, Umeå, Sweden, 17-18 October 2024.

Ginsberg, A.D., Witaszczyk, P., Aurelia Soundworks, Mustill, L. and Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) Machine Auguries: Umeå. [Artefact]

Palankasova, Bilyana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4940-6212 and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) Historicising media arts: the role of documentation and records of festivals. Media | Archive | Performance, 14,

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Machine Auguries. [Exhibitions]

2023

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Palankasova, Bilyana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4940-6212 (2023) Communicating research to the public: creative publics, cross-disciplinary engagement and para-academic practices. In: King, Brad (ed.) New Directions for University Museums. Series: A lord cultural resources book. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 207-220. ISBN 9781538157725

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2023) Net art at Tate: ‘Always under review’. [Website]

Palankasova, Bilyana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4940-6212 and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2023) Incubators: a conversation and critique. Brooklyn Rail, 2023, May.

Palankasova, Bilyana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4940-6212 and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2023) Art Documentation in the Context of Festival Activity. Transformation Digital Art 2023 Symposium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16-17 March 2023. (Unpublished)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2023) The Lives of Net Art. [Artefact]

2022

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Laurenson, Pip, Webb, Kit and Mind the Film (2022) What are internet artworks and how do we care for them? [Audio]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2022) How are digital artworks curated. Back to the Future: Arts in a Digital Age, University of East Anglia, 10 May 2022.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2022) Browser Interactions (Has Curating Killed Net.art? Redux). In: Kristensen, L. and Essvik, O. (eds.) The Computer as Seen at the End of the Human Age. Rojal Publishing: Gothenberg.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2022) Political preoccupations and media art: games and rules of engagement. In: Fields, Alison (ed.) Resistance, Memory, and Play: The work of Joseph DeLappe. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art: Norman, Oklahoma, pp. 11-20. ISBN 9780578396002

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Hunter, Roddy (2022) Networked art practice after digital preservation. In: Horáková, Jana, Kupková, Marika and Szűcsová, Monika (eds.) The Black Box Book. Archives and Curatorship in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions. Masaryk University Press: Brno, pp. 195-227. ISBN 9788028002251 (doi: 10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M280-0225-2022-9)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Laurenson, Pip and Webb, Kit (2022) The Lives of Artwork. [Exhibitions]

2021

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Ginsberg, Alexandra Daisy and Barker, Tim (2021) Programmable Nature: Conversations with Artists. Digital Departures Lab and the Dear Green Bothy, University of Glasgow, 26 October 2021 – 17 January 2022.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) Afterword to Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 173-176.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) A note to introduce Joanna Walsh’s 9 1/2 EXEMPLARY THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 155-156.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) A note to introduce Steve Lambert’s Art and Fear of Propaganda. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 142-143.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) Curating data-driven information-based art: outlive or let die. In: Muller, Lizzie and Seck Langill, Caroline (eds.) Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780367148027

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) Sleep Mode. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) The ‘Lives' of Artworks: Networks of Care in Collections. Invited Lecture, Hospitalfield (Unpublished)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Black, Siri, Carre, Marion and Kothe, Julia (2021) New Forms of Togetherness. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, DeLappe, Joseph and Leuzzi, Laura (2021) Special Issue: Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology [guest editor]. NMC Media-N, 17(2),

2020

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Hunter, Roddy (2020) Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation. Digital Curator, Brno, Czech Republic, 02-03 Dec 2020.

Hunter, Roddy and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2020) Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation. ISEA 2020, Montreal, Canada, 13-18 Oct 2020.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2020) Sleep Mode. [Exhibitions]

De Rycker, M. et al. (2020) Setting our sights on infectious diseases. ACS Infectious Diseases, 6(1), pp. 3-13. (doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00371) (PMID:31808676) (PMCID:PMC6958537)

2019

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2019) 2019 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: React. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (Ed.) (2019) 24/7: a Wake-up Call for our Non-Stop World. Somerset House Trust: London. ISBN 9781999615451

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2019) 24/7: a Wake-up Call for our Non-Stop World. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2019) Foreword. In: Robinson, Alistair and Kennedy, Madeleine (eds.) Kelly Richardson: Pillars of Dawn. Series: Kerber art. Kerber Verlag: Bielefeld, Germany, pp. 7-10. ISBN 9783735605443

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2019) Structural subjectivities. In: Trevor Paglen: From Apple to Anomaly Catalogue. Barbican: London. ISBN 9780995708266

Ginsberg, A.D., Witaszczyk, P., Aurelia Soundworks, Mustill, L., Reekie, J. and Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2019) Machine Auguries: London. [Artefact]

2018

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2018) 2018 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: Lifespans. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2018) Semantic analysis: the art of parsing found text. In: Andersson, Andrea (ed.) Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, pp. 186-196. ISBN 9781442649842

2017

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2017) 2017 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: Media Archaeology. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2017) Media Archaeology: Excavations. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and de Wild, Karin (2017) New media art and canonization: a round-robin conversation. In: Iskin, Ruth E. (ed.) Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World. Routledge: London, pp. 171-186. ISBN 9781138192683

2016

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and V2_ (2016) The Gig is Up: How New Technologies Are Reshaping The Future Of Work. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2016) 2016 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: The Spaces We Are In. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Brennan, Clare (2016) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: NEoN Digital Arts Festival Exhibition. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (Ed.) (2016) Information. Series: Documents of contemporary art. MIT Press: London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 9780262529341

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2016) From Insider Knowledge to Anecdote to Apocrypha: Reflections On How Media Art Has Been and Could be Historicised. 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2016), Hong Kong, 16-22 May 2016. p. 402. ISBN 9789624423976

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2016) Stop, drop, and roll with it: curating participatory media art. In: Bianchini, Samuel and Verhagen, Erik (eds.) Practicable : From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art. Series: Leonardo. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 377-395. ISBN 9780262034753

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Barkley, Aneta Krzemień (2016) The digital arts in and out of the institution-where to now? In: Paul, Christine (ed.) A Companion to Digital Art. Series: Blackwell companions to art history (9). John Wiley & Sons Inc.: Hoboken, pp. 494-515. ISBN 9781118475201 (doi: 10.1002/9781118475249.ch23)

2015

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2015) 2015 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: North East of North Asia. [Exhibitions]

Baumgärtel, Tilman, Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Frost, Charlotte and Jones, Caitlin (2015) Abstract video: net.video.abstraction. In: Jennings, Gabrielle (ed.) Abstract Video: the Moving Image in Contemporary Art. University of California Press: Oakland, California, pp. 129-144. ISBN 9780520282476

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2015) Digital New Media Art and Artists' Book Collections. 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2015), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14-19 Aug 2015.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Ghidini, Marialaura (2015) Internet art. In: Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9781884446054 (doi: 10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T2287852)

Sier, A. et al. (2015) Diálogos em rede. In: Barranha, Helena, Martins, Susana S. and Ribeiro, António Pinto (eds.) Museus sem lugar: ensaios, manifestos e diálogos em rede. Instituto de História da Arte (IHA): Lisbon. ISBN 9789899919242

2014

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Daniels, Mark (2014) SSA/Alt-w Exhibition. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2014) 2014 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: FUTUREPROOFING. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2014) Digital Media Art and the Artists’ Book Collections: the Challenges Around the Acquisition of Analogue/Digital/Mixed Archives. Archives 2.0, Bradford, United Kingdom, 24-26 Nov 2014.

Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Foresta, D., Pate, I. and Redler, H. (2014) On artists and information: a conversation between Dr Sarah Cook, Don Foresta, Iain Pate and Hannah Redler. In: Blyth, Tilly (ed.) Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World. Scala Arts & Heritage: London, pp. 192-201. ISBN 9781857599015

Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2014) Containers of/for information. In: Atkinson, C.M. (ed.) Index. Café Royal: Southport, pp. 8-11. ISBN 9780957586710

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2014) Murky categorization and bearing witness: the varied processes of the historicization of new media art. In: Graham, Beryl (ed.) New Collecting; Exhibiting and Audiences After New Media Art. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 203-219. ISBN 9781409448945

Shemilt, Elaine and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2014) New Ways of Seeing - Suite of Prints. [Artefact]

Sollfrank, Cornelia, Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Stalder, Felix (2014) Art in the Age of Networks. In: 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2014), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 30 Oct - 08 Nov 2014, pp. 229-230. ISBN 9789948182399

2013

Hanhardt, John and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) John G. Hanhardt Q&A session chaired by Sarah Cook. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 19(5), pp. 152-157.

Hanhardt, John G., Stubbs, Mike and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) Introductions and John G. Hanhardt keynote speech. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 19(5), pp. 132-141.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) A note from the Author. Exhibitionist, 8, pp. 78-82.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) We're not hobbyists or dabblers anymore. In: Dekker, Annet (ed.) Speculative Scenarios: Or What WIll Happen to Digital Art in the (Near) Future? Baltan Laboratories: Eindhoven, pp. 46-53.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (Ed.) (2013) Thomson & Craighead: Flat Earth. MEWO Kunsthalle and Dundee Contemporary Arts: Memmigen and Dundee. ISBN 9783981627428

Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) Far out! Distance and location in the work of Thomson & Craighead. In: Cook, S. (ed.) Thomson & Craighead: Flat Earth. MEWO Kunsthalle and Dundee Contemporary Arts: Memmigen and Dundee, pp. 8-33. ISBN 9783981627428

Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) Open social science. In: Neville, Charo (ed.) Germaine Koh: Weather Systems. Kamloops Art Gallery: Kamloops, B.C., pp. 8-11. ISBN 9781895497816

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) On curating new media art. In: Noordegraaf, Julia, Saba, Cosetta G., Le Maître, Barbara and Hediger, Vinzenz (eds.) Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives. Series: Framing film. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, pp. 389-404. ISBN 9789089642912

2012

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2012) Curatorial experiments in liberating copyright-free material for artistic re-use. NMC Media-N, 8(2),

2011

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2011) Nam June Paik Today / Nam June Paik, FACT and TATE, Liverpool, UK. December 17, 2010 - March 13, 2011. ETC, 93, pp. 47-51.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Diamond, Sara (Eds.) (2011) Euphoria & Dystopia: the Banff New Media Institute Dialogues. Banff Centre Press: Banff, Alta.. ISBN 9781894773225

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2011) Concretely immaterial. In: Highland Institute for Contemporary Art: Exhibitions 2011. Small Potatoes Publishing: Dalcrombie, Loch Ruthven, Inverness-shire. ISBN 9780953217540

2010

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2010) FEEDFORWARD. The Angel of History, LABoral, October 22 - April 5, 2010. ETC, 89, pp. 30-34.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Lapp, Axel, Gfader, Verina and Graham, Beryl (Eds.) (2010) A Brief History of Curating New Media Art: Conversations With Curators. The Green Box: Berlin. ISBN 9783941644205

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Lapp, Axel, Gfader, Verina and Graham, Beryl (Eds.) (2010) A Brief History of Working With New Media Art: Conversations With Artists. The Green Box: Berlin. ISBN 9783941644212

Graham, Beryl and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2010) The behaviour of new media: towards a post-hype hospitality aesthetics? Art Lies(67),

Graham, Beryl and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2010) Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media. Series: Leonardo. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass. ; London. ISBN 9780262013888

2009

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2009) Interview with Susan Collins. ETC, 88, pp. 43-44.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2009) Radical art. In: Stubbs, Mike and Newman, Karen (eds.) We Are the Real-Time Experiment: 20 Years of FACT. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, pp. 26-29. ISBN 9781846312298

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2009) New Media Art / Schematic: Canadian New Media Art in London, [space] (studios), London. December 2008. ETC, 86, pp. 60-65.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2009) Understanding quality: curatorial strategies for online artistic production. In: Krier, Sophie (ed.) Me You and Everyone We Know is a Curator. Graphic Design Museum: Breda. ISBN 9789072637307

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Graham, Beryl (2009) New media and digital art overview. China-UK: Connections Through Culture. Arts Overview,

2008

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2008) Immateriality and its discontents: models of curating new media art. In: Paul, Chrstiane (ed.) New Media in the White Cube and Beyond : Curatorial Models for Digital Art. University of California Press: Berkelet, California ; London, pp. 13-25. ISBN 9780520243972

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2008) Networked memory: always live and yet always an archive. In: Eden, Xandra and Roberts, John (eds.) The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art: Greensboro, N.C., pp. 116-126. ISBN 9781890949112

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2008) The work of art in the age of ubiquitous narrowcasting? In: Lovink, G. and Niederer, S. (eds.) Video Vortex Responses to YouTube. Institute of Network Cultures: Amsterdam, pp. 173-180. ISBN 9789078146056

2007

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2007) Essays on the work of David Rokeby. In: Silicon Remembers Carbon. FACT: Liverpool.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2007) The logic of historical reenactment: respeaking and remediation in contemporary art. In: Himmelsbach, Sabine (ed.) Playback-- Simulated Realities. Kehrer: Heidelberg. ISBN 9783939583189

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2007) Online activity and offline community: cultural institutions and new media art. In: Cameron, Fiona and Kenderdine, Sarah (eds.) Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: a Critical Discourse. Series: Media in transition. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., pp. 113-132. ISBN 9780262033534

2005

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2005) Context specific curating on the web (CSCW). In: Corby, Tom (ed.) Network Art: Practices and Positions. Routledge: London, pp. 40-56. ISBN 9780415364799

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2005) Researching and Presenting a History of New Media: Ten Years of the Banff New Media Institute. In: Museums and the Web 2005, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 13-16 Apr 2005,

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2005) A crisis of presentation. Mute Magazine, 1(29), pp. 34-35.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2005) 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: Studer, Monica and Van den Berg, Christoph (eds.) Somewhere Else is the Same Place. Kunstmuseum Solothurn: Solothurn, pp. 62-71. ISBN 9783906086903

2004

Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Graham, B. (2004) Curating new media art: models and challenges. In: Kimbell, Lucy (ed.) New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004. Arts Council England: London, pp. 84-91. ISBN 9780948797880

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2004) What would artificial intelligence find aesthetically pleasing? The burning question of generative art and its audience. In: Sollfrank, Cornelia (ed.) Cornelia Sollfrank Net.art Generator. Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg: Nürnberg, pp. 146-155. ISBN 9783936711301

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2004) You can find me here: geographical relevant database art online. In: Kiendl, Anthony (ed.) Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture and Interpretation. Banff Centre Press: Banff, pp. 330-345. ISBN 9781894773058

2003

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2003) Art and technology in the year 2000. In: FACTORS 2000. FACT: Liverpool.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2003) Toward a theory of the practice of curating new media art. In: Townsend, Melanie (ed.) Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices. The Banff Centre Press: Banff, Alberta, pp. 169-182. ISBN 9780920159996

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Cohen, Kris (2003) Conversation with Simon Pope. In: Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art. Arts Council of Wales.

2002

Graham, Beryl and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2002) Networks: net and not net: curating new media. Art Monthly(261), pp. 44-45.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Graham, Beryl and Martin, Sarah (Eds.) (2002) Curating New Media: Third Baltic International Seminar 10-12 May 2001. BALTIC: Gateshead. ISBN 9781903655061

2001

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2001) Form over content. Mute Magazine, 1(21), p. 65.

Graham, Beryl and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2001) A Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss. In: Museums and the Web 2001, Seattle, WA, USA, 14-17 Mar 2001,

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Cosic, Vuk (Eds.) (2001) Net.art Per Me. MGLC: Venezia.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2001) If you go down to the woods today. Public Art Journal, 1, pp. 26-35.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2001) Review of Ctrl-Spc at ZKM. Mute Magazine,

2000

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2000) Ascii Architecture, the other size of zero (review of Video Positive). Public Art Journal, 1(4), pp. 45-47.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2000) Has curating killed net.art. AN Magazine, March, p. 58.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2000) The Curator's Egg by Karsten Schubert. Museum News, [Book Review]

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Articles

Palankasova, Bilyana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4940-6212 and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) Historicising media arts: the role of documentation and records of festivals. Media | Archive | Performance, 14,

Palankasova, Bilyana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4940-6212 and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2023) Incubators: a conversation and critique. Brooklyn Rail, 2023, May.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) Afterword to Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 173-176.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) A note to introduce Joanna Walsh’s 9 1/2 EXEMPLARY THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 155-156.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) A note to introduce Steve Lambert’s Art and Fear of Propaganda. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 142-143.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, DeLappe, Joseph and Leuzzi, Laura (2021) Special Issue: Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology [guest editor]. NMC Media-N, 17(2),

De Rycker, M. et al. (2020) Setting our sights on infectious diseases. ACS Infectious Diseases, 6(1), pp. 3-13. (doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00371) (PMID:31808676) (PMCID:PMC6958537)

Hanhardt, John and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) John G. Hanhardt Q&A session chaired by Sarah Cook. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 19(5), pp. 152-157.

Hanhardt, John G., Stubbs, Mike and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) Introductions and John G. Hanhardt keynote speech. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 19(5), pp. 132-141.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) A note from the Author. Exhibitionist, 8, pp. 78-82.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2012) Curatorial experiments in liberating copyright-free material for artistic re-use. NMC Media-N, 8(2),

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2011) Nam June Paik Today / Nam June Paik, FACT and TATE, Liverpool, UK. December 17, 2010 - March 13, 2011. ETC, 93, pp. 47-51.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2010) FEEDFORWARD. The Angel of History, LABoral, October 22 - April 5, 2010. ETC, 89, pp. 30-34.

Graham, Beryl and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2010) The behaviour of new media: towards a post-hype hospitality aesthetics? Art Lies(67),

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2009) Interview with Susan Collins. ETC, 88, pp. 43-44.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2009) New Media Art / Schematic: Canadian New Media Art in London, [space] (studios), London. December 2008. ETC, 86, pp. 60-65.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Graham, Beryl (2009) New media and digital art overview. China-UK: Connections Through Culture. Arts Overview,

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2005) A crisis of presentation. Mute Magazine, 1(29), pp. 34-35.

Graham, Beryl and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2002) Networks: net and not net: curating new media. Art Monthly(261), pp. 44-45.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2001) Form over content. Mute Magazine, 1(21), p. 65.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2001) If you go down to the woods today. Public Art Journal, 1, pp. 26-35.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2001) Review of Ctrl-Spc at ZKM. Mute Magazine,

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2000) Ascii Architecture, the other size of zero (review of Video Positive). Public Art Journal, 1(4), pp. 45-47.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2000) Has curating killed net.art. AN Magazine, March, p. 58.

Books

Graham, Beryl and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2010) Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media. Series: Leonardo. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass. ; London. ISBN 9780262013888

Book Sections

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) The patchy history of artists and electronics: typewriter, telephone, television, telecommunications. In: Ravaglia, Val (ed.) Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet. Tate Publishing. (Accepted for Publication)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) The production, exhibition, and interpretation of art after new media. In: Kang, Yumi (ed.) Digital Culture and Art Museums. Series: Seo-Seoul Museum of Art Research Series. Seoul Metropolitan Government. (Accepted for Publication)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Palankasova, Bilyana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4940-6212 (2023) Communicating research to the public: creative publics, cross-disciplinary engagement and para-academic practices. In: King, Brad (ed.) New Directions for University Museums. Series: A lord cultural resources book. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 207-220. ISBN 9781538157725

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2022) Browser Interactions (Has Curating Killed Net.art? Redux). In: Kristensen, L. and Essvik, O. (eds.) The Computer as Seen at the End of the Human Age. Rojal Publishing: Gothenberg.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2022) Political preoccupations and media art: games and rules of engagement. In: Fields, Alison (ed.) Resistance, Memory, and Play: The work of Joseph DeLappe. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art: Norman, Oklahoma, pp. 11-20. ISBN 9780578396002

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Hunter, Roddy (2022) Networked art practice after digital preservation. In: Horáková, Jana, Kupková, Marika and Szűcsová, Monika (eds.) The Black Box Book. Archives and Curatorship in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions. Masaryk University Press: Brno, pp. 195-227. ISBN 9788028002251 (doi: 10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M280-0225-2022-9)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) Curating data-driven information-based art: outlive or let die. In: Muller, Lizzie and Seck Langill, Caroline (eds.) Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780367148027

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2019) Foreword. In: Robinson, Alistair and Kennedy, Madeleine (eds.) Kelly Richardson: Pillars of Dawn. Series: Kerber art. Kerber Verlag: Bielefeld, Germany, pp. 7-10. ISBN 9783735605443

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2019) Structural subjectivities. In: Trevor Paglen: From Apple to Anomaly Catalogue. Barbican: London. ISBN 9780995708266

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2018) Semantic analysis: the art of parsing found text. In: Andersson, Andrea (ed.) Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, pp. 186-196. ISBN 9781442649842

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and de Wild, Karin (2017) New media art and canonization: a round-robin conversation. In: Iskin, Ruth E. (ed.) Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World. Routledge: London, pp. 171-186. ISBN 9781138192683

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2016) Stop, drop, and roll with it: curating participatory media art. In: Bianchini, Samuel and Verhagen, Erik (eds.) Practicable : From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art. Series: Leonardo. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 377-395. ISBN 9780262034753

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Barkley, Aneta Krzemień (2016) The digital arts in and out of the institution-where to now? In: Paul, Christine (ed.) A Companion to Digital Art. Series: Blackwell companions to art history (9). John Wiley & Sons Inc.: Hoboken, pp. 494-515. ISBN 9781118475201 (doi: 10.1002/9781118475249.ch23)

Baumgärtel, Tilman, Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Frost, Charlotte and Jones, Caitlin (2015) Abstract video: net.video.abstraction. In: Jennings, Gabrielle (ed.) Abstract Video: the Moving Image in Contemporary Art. University of California Press: Oakland, California, pp. 129-144. ISBN 9780520282476

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Ghidini, Marialaura (2015) Internet art. In: Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9781884446054 (doi: 10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T2287852)

Sier, A. et al. (2015) Diálogos em rede. In: Barranha, Helena, Martins, Susana S. and Ribeiro, António Pinto (eds.) Museus sem lugar: ensaios, manifestos e diálogos em rede. Instituto de História da Arte (IHA): Lisbon. ISBN 9789899919242

Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Foresta, D., Pate, I. and Redler, H. (2014) On artists and information: a conversation between Dr Sarah Cook, Don Foresta, Iain Pate and Hannah Redler. In: Blyth, Tilly (ed.) Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World. Scala Arts & Heritage: London, pp. 192-201. ISBN 9781857599015

Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2014) Containers of/for information. In: Atkinson, C.M. (ed.) Index. Café Royal: Southport, pp. 8-11. ISBN 9780957586710

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2014) Murky categorization and bearing witness: the varied processes of the historicization of new media art. In: Graham, Beryl (ed.) New Collecting; Exhibiting and Audiences After New Media Art. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 203-219. ISBN 9781409448945

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) We're not hobbyists or dabblers anymore. In: Dekker, Annet (ed.) Speculative Scenarios: Or What WIll Happen to Digital Art in the (Near) Future? Baltan Laboratories: Eindhoven, pp. 46-53.

Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) Far out! Distance and location in the work of Thomson & Craighead. In: Cook, S. (ed.) Thomson & Craighead: Flat Earth. MEWO Kunsthalle and Dundee Contemporary Arts: Memmigen and Dundee, pp. 8-33. ISBN 9783981627428

Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) Open social science. In: Neville, Charo (ed.) Germaine Koh: Weather Systems. Kamloops Art Gallery: Kamloops, B.C., pp. 8-11. ISBN 9781895497816

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2013) On curating new media art. In: Noordegraaf, Julia, Saba, Cosetta G., Le Maître, Barbara and Hediger, Vinzenz (eds.) Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives. Series: Framing film. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, pp. 389-404. ISBN 9789089642912

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2011) Concretely immaterial. In: Highland Institute for Contemporary Art: Exhibitions 2011. Small Potatoes Publishing: Dalcrombie, Loch Ruthven, Inverness-shire. ISBN 9780953217540

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2009) Radical art. In: Stubbs, Mike and Newman, Karen (eds.) We Are the Real-Time Experiment: 20 Years of FACT. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, pp. 26-29. ISBN 9781846312298

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2009) Understanding quality: curatorial strategies for online artistic production. In: Krier, Sophie (ed.) Me You and Everyone We Know is a Curator. Graphic Design Museum: Breda. ISBN 9789072637307

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2008) Immateriality and its discontents: models of curating new media art. In: Paul, Chrstiane (ed.) New Media in the White Cube and Beyond : Curatorial Models for Digital Art. University of California Press: Berkelet, California ; London, pp. 13-25. ISBN 9780520243972

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2008) Networked memory: always live and yet always an archive. In: Eden, Xandra and Roberts, John (eds.) The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art: Greensboro, N.C., pp. 116-126. ISBN 9781890949112

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2008) The work of art in the age of ubiquitous narrowcasting? In: Lovink, G. and Niederer, S. (eds.) Video Vortex Responses to YouTube. Institute of Network Cultures: Amsterdam, pp. 173-180. ISBN 9789078146056

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2007) Essays on the work of David Rokeby. In: Silicon Remembers Carbon. FACT: Liverpool.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2007) The logic of historical reenactment: respeaking and remediation in contemporary art. In: Himmelsbach, Sabine (ed.) Playback-- Simulated Realities. Kehrer: Heidelberg. ISBN 9783939583189

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2007) Online activity and offline community: cultural institutions and new media art. In: Cameron, Fiona and Kenderdine, Sarah (eds.) Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: a Critical Discourse. Series: Media in transition. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., pp. 113-132. ISBN 9780262033534

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2005) Context specific curating on the web (CSCW). In: Corby, Tom (ed.) Network Art: Practices and Positions. Routledge: London, pp. 40-56. ISBN 9780415364799

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2005) 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: Studer, Monica and Van den Berg, Christoph (eds.) Somewhere Else is the Same Place. Kunstmuseum Solothurn: Solothurn, pp. 62-71. ISBN 9783906086903

Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Graham, B. (2004) Curating new media art: models and challenges. In: Kimbell, Lucy (ed.) New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004. Arts Council England: London, pp. 84-91. ISBN 9780948797880

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2004) What would artificial intelligence find aesthetically pleasing? The burning question of generative art and its audience. In: Sollfrank, Cornelia (ed.) Cornelia Sollfrank Net.art Generator. Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg: Nürnberg, pp. 146-155. ISBN 9783936711301

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2004) You can find me here: geographical relevant database art online. In: Kiendl, Anthony (ed.) Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture and Interpretation. Banff Centre Press: Banff, pp. 330-345. ISBN 9781894773058

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2003) Art and technology in the year 2000. In: FACTORS 2000. FACT: Liverpool.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2003) Toward a theory of the practice of curating new media art. In: Townsend, Melanie (ed.) Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices. The Banff Centre Press: Banff, Alberta, pp. 169-182. ISBN 9780920159996

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Cohen, Kris (2003) Conversation with Simon Pope. In: Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art. Arts Council of Wales.

Book Reviews

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2000) The Curator's Egg by Karsten Schubert. Museum News, [Book Review]

Edited Books

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (Ed.) (2019) 24/7: a Wake-up Call for our Non-Stop World. Somerset House Trust: London. ISBN 9781999615451

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (Ed.) (2016) Information. Series: Documents of contemporary art. MIT Press: London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 9780262529341

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (Ed.) (2013) Thomson & Craighead: Flat Earth. MEWO Kunsthalle and Dundee Contemporary Arts: Memmigen and Dundee. ISBN 9783981627428

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Diamond, Sara (Eds.) (2011) Euphoria & Dystopia: the Banff New Media Institute Dialogues. Banff Centre Press: Banff, Alta.. ISBN 9781894773225

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Lapp, Axel, Gfader, Verina and Graham, Beryl (Eds.) (2010) A Brief History of Curating New Media Art: Conversations With Curators. The Green Box: Berlin. ISBN 9783941644205

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Lapp, Axel, Gfader, Verina and Graham, Beryl (Eds.) (2010) A Brief History of Working With New Media Art: Conversations With Artists. The Green Box: Berlin. ISBN 9783941644212

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Graham, Beryl and Martin, Sarah (Eds.) (2002) Curating New Media: Third Baltic International Seminar 10-12 May 2001. BALTIC: Gateshead. ISBN 9781903655061

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Cosic, Vuk (Eds.) (2001) Net.art Per Me. MGLC: Venezia.

Conference or Workshop Item

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Research. at Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic Research, Umeå, Sweden, 4-6 December 2024. (Accepted for Publication)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) The wicked problem of generated art and the terms and conditions of art-making in an age of AI. Open Symposium on Wicked Problems and AI, Umeå, Sweden, 17-18 October 2024.

Palankasova, Bilyana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4940-6212 and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2023) Art Documentation in the Context of Festival Activity. Transformation Digital Art 2023 Symposium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16-17 March 2023. (Unpublished)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2022) How are digital artworks curated. Back to the Future: Arts in a Digital Age, University of East Anglia, 10 May 2022.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Ginsberg, Alexandra Daisy and Barker, Tim (2021) Programmable Nature: Conversations with Artists. Digital Departures Lab and the Dear Green Bothy, University of Glasgow, 26 October 2021 – 17 January 2022.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) The ‘Lives' of Artworks: Networks of Care in Collections. Invited Lecture, Hospitalfield (Unpublished)

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Hunter, Roddy (2020) Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation. Digital Curator, Brno, Czech Republic, 02-03 Dec 2020.

Hunter, Roddy and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2020) Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation. ISEA 2020, Montreal, Canada, 13-18 Oct 2020.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2016) From Insider Knowledge to Anecdote to Apocrypha: Reflections On How Media Art Has Been and Could be Historicised. 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2016), Hong Kong, 16-22 May 2016. p. 402. ISBN 9789624423976

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2015) Digital New Media Art and Artists' Book Collections. 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2015), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14-19 Aug 2015.

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2014) Digital Media Art and the Artists’ Book Collections: the Challenges Around the Acquisition of Analogue/Digital/Mixed Archives. Archives 2.0, Bradford, United Kingdom, 24-26 Nov 2014.

Conference Proceedings

Sollfrank, Cornelia, Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Stalder, Felix (2014) Art in the Age of Networks. In: 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2014), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 30 Oct - 08 Nov 2014, pp. 229-230. ISBN 9789948182399

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2005) Researching and Presenting a History of New Media: Ten Years of the Banff New Media Institute. In: Museums and the Web 2005, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 13-16 Apr 2005,

Graham, Beryl and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2001) A Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss. In: Museums and the Web 2001, Seattle, WA, USA, 14-17 Mar 2001,

Artefact

Ginsberg, A.D., Witaszczyk, P., Aurelia Soundworks, Mustill, L. and Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) Machine Auguries: Umeå. [Artefact]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2023) The Lives of Net Art. [Artefact]

Ginsberg, A.D., Witaszczyk, P., Aurelia Soundworks, Mustill, L., Reekie, J. and Cook, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2019) Machine Auguries: London. [Artefact]

Shemilt, Elaine and Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2014) New Ways of Seeing - Suite of Prints. [Artefact]

Exhibitions

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2024) Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Machine Auguries. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Laurenson, Pip and Webb, Kit (2022) The Lives of Artwork. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2021) Sleep Mode. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Black, Siri, Carre, Marion and Kothe, Julia (2021) New Forms of Togetherness. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2020) Sleep Mode. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2019) 2019 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: React. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2019) 24/7: a Wake-up Call for our Non-Stop World. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2018) 2018 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: Lifespans. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2017) 2017 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: Media Archaeology. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2017) Media Archaeology: Excavations. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and V2_ (2016) The Gig is Up: How New Technologies Are Reshaping The Future Of Work. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2016) 2016 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: The Spaces We Are In. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Brennan, Clare (2016) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: NEoN Digital Arts Festival Exhibition. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2015) 2015 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: North East of North Asia. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 and Daniels, Mark (2014) SSA/Alt-w Exhibition. [Exhibitions]

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2014) 2014 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: FUTUREPROOFING. [Exhibitions]

Audio

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241, Laurenson, Pip, Webb, Kit and Mind the Film (2022) What are internet artworks and how do we care for them? [Audio]

Website

Cook, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241 (2023) Net art at Tate: ‘Always under review’. [Website]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 05:58:09 2025 BST.

Supervision

  • Dooley, Christie
    Curating contemporary art in historic house settings: A critical assessment of Scottish cultural heritage experiences at Hospitalfield, Jupiter Artland, and Mount Stuart
  • Lawal Agoro, Amina
    Trace Elements: a curatorial approach to the reconstitution of late 19th century ‘vernacular’ architecture in Lagos, Nigeria (A Practice Based PhD Project)
  • Lin, Yi Ting
    Towards a Socially Sustainable Digital Cultural Heritage: A Case Study on Public Museums in Taiwan
  • Palankasova, Bilyana
    Valuing festivals as incubators of digital creativity

Additional information

Sarah currently holds a full-time Senior Academic Fellowship at Tate (Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum). 

Until 2019 she was a curator for NEoN (NorthEast of North), Scotland’s only digital art festival and was founder/curator of LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery in the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee (2013-2018), helping the School to win a Gold Award from the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement Excellence.

From 2000-2013 she was based at the University of Sunderland where she co-founded CRUMB, the online resource for curators of media art, supervised PhD students, and taught on the MA Curating course.

Sarah co-chaired Rewire, the Fourth International Conference on the histories of media art, science and technology with FACT in Liverpool (2011).

In 2008-2009 Sarah was the inaugural curatorial fellow at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York, and she worked as adjunct curator of new media at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art until 2006.

Having grown up in Canada, Sarah has had 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. From 1999 to 2005 Sarah worked as a guest curator and researcher in residence at the Banff Centre developing exhibitions, summits, residencies and publications for the Walter Phillips Gallery, the International Curatorial Institute and what was the Banff New Media Institute.

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 the 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), Mirror Neurons (2012), and Biomediations, the exhibitions for Transitio_MX_05, the Festival of Electronic Art and Video in Mexico City (2013).

Publications include Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues (Banff Centre Press, 2011, co-edited with Sara Diamond); INFORMATION (Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel and MIT Press, 2016); and Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (MIT Press, 2010; Chinese edition 2016, co-authored with Beryl Graham).

She holds a Masters degree from CCS at Bard, and a PhD from the University of Sunderland (2004)


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