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SARAH COOK MARIALAURA GHIDINI

Sarah Cook is a curator, writer and researcher based in Scotland. She is Marialaura Ghidini is a curator whose work explores the intersections
Professor of Museum Studies in Information Studies at the University of between art, technology and society, particularly the way technology
Glasgow. Sarah is one of the curators behind Scotland’s only digital arts transforms the relationship between people and their? environment.
festival NEoN Digital Arts and was founder/curator of LifeSpace Science After obtaining her PhD with CRUMB at the University of Sunderland
Art Research Gallery in the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee (2015), she has researched the field of curating on the web contributing
(as part of her role as Dundee Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of to edited books and journals. Recently, she published the research pro-
Art & Design, 2013-2018).Sarah has curated and co-curated international ject ‘curating.online’ (2021) with the support of the Italian Council – 9th
exhibitions of contemporary art and new media art including: 24/7 (2019) Edition (IT) and the Exhibition Research Lab at Liverpool John Moores
at Somerset House; The Gig Is Up (2016) at V2_Institute for Unstable University (UK), and the archive ‘The Broken Timeline’ (2022) conceived
Media in Rotterdam; Right Here, Right Now (2015) at The Lowry in Salford; with Annet Dekker and Gaia Tedone.
Alt-w (2014) at the Royal Scottish Academy, SSA Annual Exhibition in Interested in working with various exhibition formats outside the gal-
Edinburgh; Not even the sky: Thomson & Craighead (2013) for MEWO lery, Marialaura founded the curatorial platform or-bits.com (2009-2015)
Kunsthalle in Memmingen; Biomediations (2013) for Transitio_MX_05, and has curated projects such as ‘#exstrange’ (2017) on eBay; ‘Silicon
the festival of electronic arts and video in Mexico City; Mirror Neurons Plateau’ (2015-) in print; and ‘The C(h)roma Show’ (2014) in an electronics
(2012) for National Glass Centre in Sunderland; Q.E.D. (2011) for the AND shop in Bangalore, India.
Festival in Liverpool; Untethered (2008) for Eyebeam in New York; Broad- Marialaura has taught at various universities, given lectures and
cast Yourself (2008) for AV Festival 08 in Newcastle; Database Imaginary delivered workshops for different audiences and organisations, from Art
(2004) and The Art Formerly Known As New Media (2005) both for the Asia Archive in Delhi (IN) to the Ross School of Business at University of
Walter Phillips Gallery, ABSTRACT CV The Banff Centre.Together with Michigan (USA).
Beryl Graham, Sarah co-founded CRUMB, the longstanding online re- Currently, she works as a curatorial consultant and carries out her
source and network for curators of new media art, hosting workshops and practice independently, also under the moniker ://ftp, a curatorial agency
courses worldwide. She holds a Masters degree from CCS at Bard, and she started with Gaia Tedone in 2021.
a PhD from the University of Sunderland (2004) where she was employed
until 2013, undertaking research, supervising PhD students and developing https://marialaura-ghidini.hotglue.me/
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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