Sarah Cook is a Canadian scholar, historian and curator in the field of New Media art, who is based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Cook is a Research Fellow at the University of Sunderland, where she works with the research institute CRUMB – Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss, that she co-founded with Beryl Graham in 2000, and teaches on the MA Curating course. She is a trustee of folly in Lancaster. For many years, she has curated exhibitions of New Media art and was instrumental in establishing New media as an academic subject and an accepted art form. (http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/de/studium/medienkunstgeschichte/06318/)