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SARAH COOK
Sarah Cook is a curator, writer and researcher based in Scotland. She is
Professor of Museum Studies in Information Studies at the University of
Glasgow. Sarah is one of the curators behind Scotland’s only digital arts
festival NEoN Digital Arts and was founder/curator of LifeSpace Science
Art Research Gallery in the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
(as part of her role as Dundee Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of
Art & Design, 2013-2018).Sarah has curated and co-curated international
exhibitions of contemporary art and new media art including: 24/7 (2019)
at Somerset House; The Gig Is Up (2016) at V2_Institute for Unstable
Media in Rotterdam; Right Here, Right Now (2015) at The Lowry in Salford;
Alt-w (2014) at the Royal Scottish Academy, SSA Annual Exhibition in
Edinburgh; Not even the sky: Thomson & Craighead (2013) for MEWO
Kunsthalle in Memmingen; Biomediations (2013) for Transitio_MX_05,
the festival of electronic arts and video in Mexico City; Mirror Neurons
(2012) for National Glass Centre in Sunderland; Q.E.D. (2011) for the AND
Festival in Liverpool; Untethered (2008) for Eyebeam in New York; Broad-
cast 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, ABSTRACT CV The Banff Centre.Together with
Beryl Graham, Sarah co-founded CRUMB, the longstanding online re-
source and network for curators of new media art, hosting workshops and
courses worldwide. She holds a Masters degree from CCS at Bard, and
a PhD from the University of Sunderland (2004) where she was employed
until 2013, undertaking research, supervising PhD students and developing
and teaching on the MA Curating course. As part of her research funded
by the AHRC, Sarah worked as adjunct curator of new media at BALTIC
Centre for Contemporary Art until 2006, and in 2008 was the inaugural
curatorial fellow at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York.
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MARIALAURA GHIDINI
Marialaura Ghidini is a curator whose work explores the intersections
between art, technology and society, particularly the way technology
transforms the relationship between people and their? environment.
After obtaining her PhD with CRUMB at the University of Sunderland
(2015), she has researched the field of curating on the web contributing
to edited books and journals. Recently, she published the research pro-
ject ‘curating.online’ (2021) with the support of the Italian Council – 9th
Edition (IT) and the Exhibition Research Lab at Liverpool John Moores
University (UK), and the archive ‘The Broken Timeline’ (2022) conceived
with Annet Dekker and Gaia Tedone.
Interested in working with various exhibition formats outside the gal-
lery, Marialaura founded the curatorial platform or-bits.com (2009-2015)
and has curated projects such as ‘#exstrange’ (2017) on eBay; ‘Silicon
Plateau’ (2015-) in print; and ‘The C(h)roma Show’ (2014) in an electronics
shop in Bangalore, India.
Marialaura has taught at various universities, given lectures and
delivered workshops for different audiences and organisations, from Art
Asia Archive in Delhi (IN) to the Ross School of Business at University of
Michigan (USA).
Currently, she works as a curatorial consultant and carries out her
practice independently, also under the moniker ://ftp, a curatorial agency
she started with Gaia Tedone in 2021.
https://marialaura-ghidini.hotglue.me/
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