Professor Sarah Cook
- Professor in Museum Studies (Information Studies)
telephone:
0141 330 5104
email:
Sarah.Cook@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-7241Research 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:
- Until November 28 2021: The Lives of Artworks. Part of her Senior Academic Fellowship at Tate (Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum)
- The recently published special issue of Media-N: The Journal of the New Media Caucus, “Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology”
- And, "Curating Data-Driven Information-based Art: Outlive or Let Die” chapter in: Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines, edited by Lizzie Muller and Caroline Seck Langill, Routledge, 2021.
Publications
2024
Cook, S. (2024) Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Research. at Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic Research, Umeå, Sweden, 4-6 December 2024. (Accepted for Publication)
Cook, S. (2024) The patchy history of artists and electronics: typewriter, telephone, television, telecommunications. In: Ravaglia, V. (ed.) Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet. Tate Publishing. (Accepted for Publication)
Cook, S. (2024) The production, exhibition, and interpretation of art after new media. In: Kang, Y. (ed.) Digital Culture and Art Museums. Series: Seo-Seoul Museum of Art Research Series. Seoul Metropolitan Government. (Accepted for Publication)
Cook, S. (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. (2024) Machine Auguries: Umeå. [Artefact]
Palankasova, B. and Cook, S. (2024) Historicising media arts: the role of documentation and records of festivals. Media | Archive | Performance, 14,
Cook, S. (2024) Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Machine Auguries. [Exhibitions]
2023
Cook, S. and Palankasova, B. (2023) Communicating research to the public: creative publics, cross-disciplinary engagement and para-academic practices. In: King, B. (ed.) New Directions for University Museums. Series: A lord cultural resources book. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 207-220. ISBN 9781538157725
Cook, S. (2023) Net art at Tate: ‘Always under review’. [Website]
Palankasova, B. and Cook, S. (2023) Incubators: a conversation and critique. Brooklyn Rail, 2023, May.
Palankasova, B. and Cook, S. (2023) Art Documentation in the Context of Festival Activity. Transformation Digital Art 2023 Symposium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16-17 March 2023. (Unpublished)
Cook, S. (2023) The Lives of Net Art. [Artefact]
2022
Cook, S. , Laurenson, P., Webb, K. and Mind the Film, (2022) What are internet artworks and how do we care for them? [Audio]
Cook, S. (2022) How are digital artworks curated. Back to the Future: Arts in a Digital Age, University of East Anglia, 10 May 2022.
Cook, S. (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, S. (2022) Political preoccupations and media art: games and rules of engagement. In: Fields, A. (ed.) Resistance, Memory, and Play: The work of Joseph DeLappe. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art: Norman, Oklahoma, pp. 11-20. ISBN 9780578396002
Cook, S. and Hunter, R. (2022) Networked art practice after digital preservation. In: Horáková, J., Kupková, M. and Szűcsová, M. (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, S. , Laurenson, P. and Webb, K. (2022) The Lives of Artwork. [Exhibitions]
2021
Cook, S. , Ginsberg, A. D. and Barker, T. (2021) Programmable Nature: Conversations with Artists. Digital Departures Lab and the Dear Green Bothy, University of Glasgow, 26 October 2021 – 17 January 2022.
Cook, S. (2021) Afterword to Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 173-176.
Cook, S. (2021) A note to introduce Joanna Walsh’s 9 1/2 EXEMPLARY THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 155-156.
Cook, S. (2021) A note to introduce Steve Lambert’s Art and Fear of Propaganda. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 142-143.
Cook, S. (2021) Curating data-driven information-based art: outlive or let die. In: Muller, L. and Seck Langill, C. (eds.) Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780367148027
Cook, S. (2021) Sleep Mode. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2021) The ‘Lives' of Artworks: Networks of Care in Collections. Invited Lecture, Hospitalfield (Unpublished)
Cook, S. , Black, S., Carre, M. and Kothe, J. (2021) New Forms of Togetherness. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. , DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (2021) Special Issue: Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology [guest editor]. NMC Media-N, 17(2),
2020
Cook, S. and Hunter, R. (2020) Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation. Digital Curator, Brno, Czech Republic, 02-03 Dec 2020.
Hunter, R. and Cook, S. (2020) Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation. ISEA 2020, Montreal, Canada, 13-18 Oct 2020.
Cook, S. (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, S. (2019) 2019 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: React. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (Ed.) (2019) 24/7: a Wake-up Call for our Non-Stop World. Somerset House Trust: London. ISBN 9781999615451
Cook, S. (2019) 24/7: a Wake-up Call for our Non-Stop World. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2019) Foreword. In: Robinson, A. and Kennedy, M. (eds.) Kelly Richardson: Pillars of Dawn. Series: Kerber art. Kerber Verlag: Bielefeld, Germany, pp. 7-10. ISBN 9783735605443
Cook, S. (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. (2019) Machine Auguries: London. [Artefact]
2018
Cook, S. (2018) 2018 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: Lifespans. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2018) Semantic analysis: the art of parsing found text. In: Andersson, A. (ed.) Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, pp. 186-196. ISBN 9781442649842
2017
Cook, S. (2017) 2017 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: Media Archaeology. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2017) Media Archaeology: Excavations. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. and de Wild, K. (2017) New media art and canonization: a round-robin conversation. In: Iskin, R. E. (ed.) Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World. Routledge: London, pp. 171-186. ISBN 9781138192683
2016
Cook, S. and V2_, (2016) The Gig is Up: How New Technologies Are Reshaping The Future Of Work. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2016) 2016 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: The Spaces We Are In. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. and Brennan, C. (2016) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: NEoN Digital Arts Festival Exhibition. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (Ed.) (2016) Information. Series: Documents of contemporary art. MIT Press: London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 9780262529341
Cook, S. (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, S. (2016) Stop, drop, and roll with it: curating participatory media art. In: Bianchini, S. and Verhagen, E. (eds.) Practicable : From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art. Series: Leonardo. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 377-395. ISBN 9780262034753
Cook, S. and Barkley, A. K. (2016) The digital arts in and out of the institution-where to now? In: Paul, C. (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, S. (2015) 2015 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: North East of North Asia. [Exhibitions]
Baumgärtel, T., Cook, S. , Frost, C. and Jones, C. (2015) Abstract video: net.video.abstraction. In: Jennings, G. (ed.) Abstract Video: the Moving Image in Contemporary Art. University of California Press: Oakland, California, pp. 129-144. ISBN 9780520282476
Cook, S. (2015) Digital New Media Art and Artists' Book Collections. 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2015), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14-19 Aug 2015.
Cook, S. and Ghidini, M. (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, H., Martins, S. S. and Ribeiro, A. P. (eds.) Museus sem lugar: ensaios, manifestos e diálogos em rede. Instituto de História da Arte (IHA): Lisbon. ISBN 9789899919242
2014
Cook, S. and Daniels, M. (2014) SSA/Alt-w Exhibition. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2014) 2014 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: FUTUREPROOFING. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (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. , 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, T. (ed.) Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World. Scala Arts & Heritage: London, pp. 192-201. ISBN 9781857599015
Cook, S. (2014) Containers of/for information. In: Atkinson, C.M. (ed.) Index. Café Royal: Southport, pp. 8-11. ISBN 9780957586710
Cook, S. (2014) Murky categorization and bearing witness: the varied processes of the historicization of new media art. In: Graham, B. (ed.) New Collecting; Exhibiting and Audiences After New Media Art. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 203-219. ISBN 9781409448945
Shemilt, E. and Cook, S. (2014) New Ways of Seeing - Suite of Prints. [Artefact]
Sollfrank, C., Cook, S. and Stalder, F. (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, J. and Cook, S. (2013) John G. Hanhardt Q&A session chaired by Sarah Cook. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 19(5), pp. 152-157.
Hanhardt, J. G., Stubbs, M. and Cook, S. (2013) Introductions and John G. Hanhardt keynote speech. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 19(5), pp. 132-141.
Cook, S. (2013) A note from the Author. Exhibitionist, 8, pp. 78-82.
Cook, S. (2013) We're not hobbyists or dabblers anymore. In: Dekker, A. (ed.) Speculative Scenarios: Or What WIll Happen to Digital Art in the (Near) Future? Baltan Laboratories: Eindhoven, pp. 46-53.
Cook, S. (Ed.) (2013) Thomson & Craighead: Flat Earth. MEWO Kunsthalle and Dundee Contemporary Arts: Memmigen and Dundee. ISBN 9783981627428
Cook, S. (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. (2013) Open social science. In: Neville, C. (ed.) Germaine Koh: Weather Systems. Kamloops Art Gallery: Kamloops, B.C., pp. 8-11. ISBN 9781895497816
Cook, S. (2013) On curating new media art. In: Noordegraaf, J., Saba, C. G., Le Maître, B. and Hediger, V. (eds.) Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives. Series: Framing film. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, pp. 389-404. ISBN 9789089642912
2012
Cook, S. (2012) Curatorial experiments in liberating copyright-free material for artistic re-use. NMC Media-N, 8(2),
2011
Cook, S. (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, S. and Diamond, S. (Eds.) (2011) Euphoria & Dystopia: the Banff New Media Institute Dialogues. Banff Centre Press: Banff, Alta.. ISBN 9781894773225
Cook, S. (2011) Concretely immaterial. In: Highland Institute for Contemporary Art: Exhibitions 2011. Small Potatoes Publishing: Dalcrombie, Loch Ruthven, Inverness-shire. ISBN 9780953217540
2010
Cook, S. (2010) FEEDFORWARD. The Angel of History, LABoral, October 22 - April 5, 2010. ETC, 89, pp. 30-34.
Cook, S., Lapp, A., Gfader, V. and Graham, B. (Eds.) (2010) A Brief History of Curating New Media Art: Conversations With Curators. The Green Box: Berlin. ISBN 9783941644205
Cook, S., Lapp, A., Gfader, V. and Graham, B. (Eds.) (2010) A Brief History of Working With New Media Art: Conversations With Artists. The Green Box: Berlin. ISBN 9783941644212
Graham, B. and Cook, S. (2010) The behaviour of new media: towards a post-hype hospitality aesthetics? Art Lies(67),
Graham, B. and Cook, S. (2010) Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media. Series: Leonardo. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass. ; London. ISBN 9780262013888
2009
Cook, S. (2009) Interview with Susan Collins. ETC, 88, pp. 43-44.
Cook, S. (2009) Radical art. In: Stubbs, M. and Newman, K. (eds.) We Are the Real-Time Experiment: 20 Years of FACT. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, pp. 26-29. ISBN 9781846312298
Cook, S. (2009) New Media Art / Schematic: Canadian New Media Art in London, [space] (studios), London. December 2008. ETC, 86, pp. 60-65.
Cook, S. (2009) Understanding quality: curatorial strategies for online artistic production. In: Krier, S. (ed.) Me You and Everyone We Know is a Curator. Graphic Design Museum: Breda. ISBN 9789072637307
Cook, S. and Graham, B. (2009) New media and digital art overview. China-UK: Connections Through Culture. Arts Overview,
2008
Cook, S. (2008) Immateriality and its discontents: models of curating new media art. In: Paul, C. (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, S. (2008) Networked memory: always live and yet always an archive. In: Eden, X. and Roberts, J. (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, S. (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, S. (2007) Essays on the work of David Rokeby. In: Silicon Remembers Carbon. FACT: Liverpool.
Cook, S. (2007) The logic of historical reenactment: respeaking and remediation in contemporary art. In: Himmelsbach, S. (ed.) Playback-- Simulated Realities. Kehrer: Heidelberg. ISBN 9783939583189
Cook, S. (2007) Online activity and offline community: cultural institutions and new media art. In: Cameron, F. and Kenderdine, S. (eds.) Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: a Critical Discourse. Series: Media in transition. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., pp. 113-132. ISBN 9780262033534
2005
Cook, S. (2005) Context specific curating on the web (CSCW). In: Corby, T. (ed.) Network Art: Practices and Positions. Routledge: London, pp. 40-56. ISBN 9780415364799
Cook, S. (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, S. (2005) A crisis of presentation. Mute Magazine, 1(29), pp. 34-35.
Cook, S. (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, M. and Van den Berg, C. (eds.) Somewhere Else is the Same Place. Kunstmuseum Solothurn: Solothurn, pp. 62-71. ISBN 9783906086903
2004
Cook, S. and Graham, B. (2004) Curating new media art: models and challenges. In: Kimbell, L. (ed.) New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004. Arts Council England: London, pp. 84-91. ISBN 9780948797880
Cook, S. (2004) What would artificial intelligence find aesthetically pleasing? The burning question of generative art and its audience. In: Sollfrank, C. (ed.) Cornelia Sollfrank Net.art Generator. Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg: Nürnberg, pp. 146-155. ISBN 9783936711301
Cook, S. (2004) You can find me here: geographical relevant database art online. In: Kiendl, A. (ed.) Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture and Interpretation. Banff Centre Press: Banff, pp. 330-345. ISBN 9781894773058
2003
Cook, S. (2003) Art and technology in the year 2000. In: FACTORS 2000. FACT: Liverpool.
Cook, S. (2003) Toward a theory of the practice of curating new media art. In: Townsend, M. (ed.) Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices. The Banff Centre Press: Banff, Alberta, pp. 169-182. ISBN 9780920159996
Cook, S. and Cohen, K. (2003) Conversation with Simon Pope. In: Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art. Arts Council of Wales.
2002
Graham, B. and Cook, S. (2002) Networks: net and not net: curating new media. Art Monthly(261), pp. 44-45.
Cook, S., Graham, B. and Martin, S. (Eds.) (2002) Curating New Media: Third Baltic International Seminar 10-12 May 2001. BALTIC: Gateshead. ISBN 9781903655061
2001
Cook, S. (2001) Form over content. Mute Magazine, 1(21), p. 65.
Graham, B. and Cook, S. (2001) A Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss. In: Museums and the Web 2001, Seattle, WA, USA, 14-17 Mar 2001,
Cook, S. and Cosic, V. (Eds.) (2001) Net.art Per Me. MGLC: Venezia.
Cook, S. (2001) If you go down to the woods today. Public Art Journal, 1, pp. 26-35.
Cook, S. (2001) Review of Ctrl-Spc at ZKM. Mute Magazine,
2000
Cook, S. (2000) Ascii Architecture, the other size of zero (review of Video Positive). Public Art Journal, 1(4), pp. 45-47.
Cook, S. (2000) Has curating killed net.art. AN Magazine, March, p. 58.
Cook, S. (2000) The Curator's Egg by Karsten Schubert. Museum News, [Book Review]
Articles
Palankasova, B. and Cook, S. (2024) Historicising media arts: the role of documentation and records of festivals. Media | Archive | Performance, 14,
Palankasova, B. and Cook, S. (2023) Incubators: a conversation and critique. Brooklyn Rail, 2023, May.
Cook, S. (2021) Afterword to Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 173-176.
Cook, S. (2021) A note to introduce Joanna Walsh’s 9 1/2 EXEMPLARY THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 155-156.
Cook, S. (2021) A note to introduce Steve Lambert’s Art and Fear of Propaganda. NMC Media-N, 17(2), pp. 142-143.
Cook, S. , DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (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, J. and Cook, S. (2013) John G. Hanhardt Q&A session chaired by Sarah Cook. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 19(5), pp. 152-157.
Hanhardt, J. G., Stubbs, M. and Cook, S. (2013) Introductions and John G. Hanhardt keynote speech. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 19(5), pp. 132-141.
Cook, S. (2013) A note from the Author. Exhibitionist, 8, pp. 78-82.
Cook, S. (2012) Curatorial experiments in liberating copyright-free material for artistic re-use. NMC Media-N, 8(2),
Cook, S. (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, S. (2010) FEEDFORWARD. The Angel of History, LABoral, October 22 - April 5, 2010. ETC, 89, pp. 30-34.
Graham, B. and Cook, S. (2010) The behaviour of new media: towards a post-hype hospitality aesthetics? Art Lies(67),
Cook, S. (2009) Interview with Susan Collins. ETC, 88, pp. 43-44.
Cook, S. (2009) New Media Art / Schematic: Canadian New Media Art in London, [space] (studios), London. December 2008. ETC, 86, pp. 60-65.
Cook, S. and Graham, B. (2009) New media and digital art overview. China-UK: Connections Through Culture. Arts Overview,
Cook, S. (2005) A crisis of presentation. Mute Magazine, 1(29), pp. 34-35.
Graham, B. and Cook, S. (2002) Networks: net and not net: curating new media. Art Monthly(261), pp. 44-45.
Cook, S. (2001) Form over content. Mute Magazine, 1(21), p. 65.
Cook, S. (2001) If you go down to the woods today. Public Art Journal, 1, pp. 26-35.
Cook, S. (2001) Review of Ctrl-Spc at ZKM. Mute Magazine,
Cook, S. (2000) Ascii Architecture, the other size of zero (review of Video Positive). Public Art Journal, 1(4), pp. 45-47.
Cook, S. (2000) Has curating killed net.art. AN Magazine, March, p. 58.
Books
Graham, B. and Cook, S. (2010) Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media. Series: Leonardo. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass. ; London. ISBN 9780262013888
Book Sections
Cook, S. (2024) The patchy history of artists and electronics: typewriter, telephone, television, telecommunications. In: Ravaglia, V. (ed.) Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet. Tate Publishing. (Accepted for Publication)
Cook, S. (2024) The production, exhibition, and interpretation of art after new media. In: Kang, Y. (ed.) Digital Culture and Art Museums. Series: Seo-Seoul Museum of Art Research Series. Seoul Metropolitan Government. (Accepted for Publication)
Cook, S. and Palankasova, B. (2023) Communicating research to the public: creative publics, cross-disciplinary engagement and para-academic practices. In: King, B. (ed.) New Directions for University Museums. Series: A lord cultural resources book. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 207-220. ISBN 9781538157725
Cook, S. (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, S. (2022) Political preoccupations and media art: games and rules of engagement. In: Fields, A. (ed.) Resistance, Memory, and Play: The work of Joseph DeLappe. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art: Norman, Oklahoma, pp. 11-20. ISBN 9780578396002
Cook, S. and Hunter, R. (2022) Networked art practice after digital preservation. In: Horáková, J., Kupková, M. and Szűcsová, M. (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, S. (2021) Curating data-driven information-based art: outlive or let die. In: Muller, L. and Seck Langill, C. (eds.) Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780367148027
Cook, S. (2019) Foreword. In: Robinson, A. and Kennedy, M. (eds.) Kelly Richardson: Pillars of Dawn. Series: Kerber art. Kerber Verlag: Bielefeld, Germany, pp. 7-10. ISBN 9783735605443
Cook, S. (2019) Structural subjectivities. In: Trevor Paglen: From Apple to Anomaly Catalogue. Barbican: London. ISBN 9780995708266
Cook, S. (2018) Semantic analysis: the art of parsing found text. In: Andersson, A. (ed.) Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, pp. 186-196. ISBN 9781442649842
Cook, S. and de Wild, K. (2017) New media art and canonization: a round-robin conversation. In: Iskin, R. E. (ed.) Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World. Routledge: London, pp. 171-186. ISBN 9781138192683
Cook, S. (2016) Stop, drop, and roll with it: curating participatory media art. In: Bianchini, S. and Verhagen, E. (eds.) Practicable : From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art. Series: Leonardo. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 377-395. ISBN 9780262034753
Cook, S. and Barkley, A. K. (2016) The digital arts in and out of the institution-where to now? In: Paul, C. (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, T., Cook, S. , Frost, C. and Jones, C. (2015) Abstract video: net.video.abstraction. In: Jennings, G. (ed.) Abstract Video: the Moving Image in Contemporary Art. University of California Press: Oakland, California, pp. 129-144. ISBN 9780520282476
Cook, S. and Ghidini, M. (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, H., Martins, S. S. and Ribeiro, A. P. (eds.) Museus sem lugar: ensaios, manifestos e diálogos em rede. Instituto de História da Arte (IHA): Lisbon. ISBN 9789899919242
Cook, S. , 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, T. (ed.) Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World. Scala Arts & Heritage: London, pp. 192-201. ISBN 9781857599015
Cook, S. (2014) Containers of/for information. In: Atkinson, C.M. (ed.) Index. Café Royal: Southport, pp. 8-11. ISBN 9780957586710
Cook, S. (2014) Murky categorization and bearing witness: the varied processes of the historicization of new media art. In: Graham, B. (ed.) New Collecting; Exhibiting and Audiences After New Media Art. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 203-219. ISBN 9781409448945
Cook, S. (2013) We're not hobbyists or dabblers anymore. In: Dekker, A. (ed.) Speculative Scenarios: Or What WIll Happen to Digital Art in the (Near) Future? Baltan Laboratories: Eindhoven, pp. 46-53.
Cook, S. (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. (2013) Open social science. In: Neville, C. (ed.) Germaine Koh: Weather Systems. Kamloops Art Gallery: Kamloops, B.C., pp. 8-11. ISBN 9781895497816
Cook, S. (2013) On curating new media art. In: Noordegraaf, J., Saba, C. G., Le Maître, B. and Hediger, V. (eds.) Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives. Series: Framing film. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, pp. 389-404. ISBN 9789089642912
Cook, S. (2011) Concretely immaterial. In: Highland Institute for Contemporary Art: Exhibitions 2011. Small Potatoes Publishing: Dalcrombie, Loch Ruthven, Inverness-shire. ISBN 9780953217540
Cook, S. (2009) Radical art. In: Stubbs, M. and Newman, K. (eds.) We Are the Real-Time Experiment: 20 Years of FACT. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, pp. 26-29. ISBN 9781846312298
Cook, S. (2009) Understanding quality: curatorial strategies for online artistic production. In: Krier, S. (ed.) Me You and Everyone We Know is a Curator. Graphic Design Museum: Breda. ISBN 9789072637307
Cook, S. (2008) Immateriality and its discontents: models of curating new media art. In: Paul, C. (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, S. (2008) Networked memory: always live and yet always an archive. In: Eden, X. and Roberts, J. (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, S. (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, S. (2007) Essays on the work of David Rokeby. In: Silicon Remembers Carbon. FACT: Liverpool.
Cook, S. (2007) The logic of historical reenactment: respeaking and remediation in contemporary art. In: Himmelsbach, S. (ed.) Playback-- Simulated Realities. Kehrer: Heidelberg. ISBN 9783939583189
Cook, S. (2007) Online activity and offline community: cultural institutions and new media art. In: Cameron, F. and Kenderdine, S. (eds.) Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: a Critical Discourse. Series: Media in transition. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., pp. 113-132. ISBN 9780262033534
Cook, S. (2005) Context specific curating on the web (CSCW). In: Corby, T. (ed.) Network Art: Practices and Positions. Routledge: London, pp. 40-56. ISBN 9780415364799
Cook, S. (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, M. and Van den Berg, C. (eds.) Somewhere Else is the Same Place. Kunstmuseum Solothurn: Solothurn, pp. 62-71. ISBN 9783906086903
Cook, S. and Graham, B. (2004) Curating new media art: models and challenges. In: Kimbell, L. (ed.) New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004. Arts Council England: London, pp. 84-91. ISBN 9780948797880
Cook, S. (2004) What would artificial intelligence find aesthetically pleasing? The burning question of generative art and its audience. In: Sollfrank, C. (ed.) Cornelia Sollfrank Net.art Generator. Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg: Nürnberg, pp. 146-155. ISBN 9783936711301
Cook, S. (2004) You can find me here: geographical relevant database art online. In: Kiendl, A. (ed.) Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture and Interpretation. Banff Centre Press: Banff, pp. 330-345. ISBN 9781894773058
Cook, S. (2003) Art and technology in the year 2000. In: FACTORS 2000. FACT: Liverpool.
Cook, S. (2003) Toward a theory of the practice of curating new media art. In: Townsend, M. (ed.) Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices. The Banff Centre Press: Banff, Alberta, pp. 169-182. ISBN 9780920159996
Cook, S. and Cohen, K. (2003) Conversation with Simon Pope. In: Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art. Arts Council of Wales.
Book Reviews
Cook, S. (2000) The Curator's Egg by Karsten Schubert. Museum News, [Book Review]
Edited Books
Cook, S. (Ed.) (2019) 24/7: a Wake-up Call for our Non-Stop World. Somerset House Trust: London. ISBN 9781999615451
Cook, S. (Ed.) (2016) Information. Series: Documents of contemporary art. MIT Press: London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 9780262529341
Cook, S. (Ed.) (2013) Thomson & Craighead: Flat Earth. MEWO Kunsthalle and Dundee Contemporary Arts: Memmigen and Dundee. ISBN 9783981627428
Cook, S. and Diamond, S. (Eds.) (2011) Euphoria & Dystopia: the Banff New Media Institute Dialogues. Banff Centre Press: Banff, Alta.. ISBN 9781894773225
Cook, S., Lapp, A., Gfader, V. and Graham, B. (Eds.) (2010) A Brief History of Curating New Media Art: Conversations With Curators. The Green Box: Berlin. ISBN 9783941644205
Cook, S., Lapp, A., Gfader, V. and Graham, B. (Eds.) (2010) A Brief History of Working With New Media Art: Conversations With Artists. The Green Box: Berlin. ISBN 9783941644212
Cook, S., Graham, B. and Martin, S. (Eds.) (2002) Curating New Media: Third Baltic International Seminar 10-12 May 2001. BALTIC: Gateshead. ISBN 9781903655061
Cook, S. and Cosic, V. (Eds.) (2001) Net.art Per Me. MGLC: Venezia.
Conference or Workshop Item
Cook, S. (2024) Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Research. at Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic Research, Umeå, Sweden, 4-6 December 2024. (Accepted for Publication)
Cook, S. (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, B. and Cook, S. (2023) Art Documentation in the Context of Festival Activity. Transformation Digital Art 2023 Symposium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16-17 March 2023. (Unpublished)
Cook, S. (2022) How are digital artworks curated. Back to the Future: Arts in a Digital Age, University of East Anglia, 10 May 2022.
Cook, S. , Ginsberg, A. D. and Barker, T. (2021) Programmable Nature: Conversations with Artists. Digital Departures Lab and the Dear Green Bothy, University of Glasgow, 26 October 2021 – 17 January 2022.
Cook, S. (2021) The ‘Lives' of Artworks: Networks of Care in Collections. Invited Lecture, Hospitalfield (Unpublished)
Cook, S. and Hunter, R. (2020) Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation. Digital Curator, Brno, Czech Republic, 02-03 Dec 2020.
Hunter, R. and Cook, S. (2020) Networked Art Practice After Digital Preservation. ISEA 2020, Montreal, Canada, 13-18 Oct 2020.
Cook, S. (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, S. (2015) Digital New Media Art and Artists' Book Collections. 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2015), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14-19 Aug 2015.
Cook, S. (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, C., Cook, S. and Stalder, F. (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, S. (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, B. and Cook, S. (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. (2024) Machine Auguries: Umeå. [Artefact]
Cook, S. (2023) The Lives of Net Art. [Artefact]
Ginsberg, A.D., Witaszczyk, P., Aurelia Soundworks, , Mustill, L., Reekie, J. and Cook, S. (2019) Machine Auguries: London. [Artefact]
Shemilt, E. and Cook, S. (2014) New Ways of Seeing - Suite of Prints. [Artefact]
Exhibitions
Cook, S. (2024) Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Machine Auguries. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. , Laurenson, P. and Webb, K. (2022) The Lives of Artwork. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2021) Sleep Mode. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. , Black, S., Carre, M. and Kothe, J. (2021) New Forms of Togetherness. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2020) Sleep Mode. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2019) 2019 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: React. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2019) 24/7: a Wake-up Call for our Non-Stop World. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2018) 2018 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: Lifespans. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2017) 2017 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: Media Archaeology. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2017) Media Archaeology: Excavations. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. and V2_, (2016) The Gig is Up: How New Technologies Are Reshaping The Future Of Work. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2016) 2016 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: The Spaces We Are In. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. and Brennan, C. (2016) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: NEoN Digital Arts Festival Exhibition. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2015) 2015 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: North East of North Asia. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. and Daniels, M. (2014) SSA/Alt-w Exhibition. [Exhibitions]
Cook, S. (2014) 2014 NEoN Digital Arts Festival: FUTUREPROOFING. [Exhibitions]
Audio
Cook, S. , Laurenson, P., Webb, K. and Mind the Film, (2022) What are internet artworks and how do we care for them? [Audio]
Website
Cook, S. (2023) Net art at Tate: ‘Always under review’. [Website]
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)
