Sarah Cook
Sarah Cook is a Ph.D. research student in New Media Curating at the University of Sunderland, England. She is an independent curator and critic and the co-editor of the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss. She has managed new media projects for Locus+, the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and curated and co-curated exhibitions at the Waygood Gallery (Newcastle), the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (Sunderland) and the Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff). She was recently a National Gallery of Canada Research Fellow in post-1970 contemporary art and thanks them for their support of her work.
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Abstract
How is new media art challenging art museums? Do the particular conditions of new media art demand a rethink of the traditional role of a curator? My research, which draws upon film theory and ethics, focuses on the potential for a �third space� of curatorial practice between the existing models of the biographical and the formalist. A space that recognises new media art as engaged, iterative, contextual, interlinked, time-based, simultaneous rather than sequential, and both discursive and figurative.
