Sarah Cook
Curator Sarah Cook is the co-editor of CRUMB (the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss – an international website and mailing list – www.crumbweb.org) and post-doctoral curator/researcher at the University of Sunderland (in collaboration with BALTIC, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom). Her doctorate concerns the theory and practice of curating new media art and she has a master's degree from Bard College's Centre for Curatorial Studies in New York. Sarah has a long-standing relationship with The Banff Centre and is working as a post-doctoral researcher and co-curator on exhibitions and publications with the Banff New Media Institute and the Walter Phillips Gallery regarding the 10th anniversary of new media art research at The Banff Centre. Sarah has organized exhibitions, commissioned new media art and managed educational projects for BALTIC (Gateshead), the Bellevue Art Museum (Seattle), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Reg Vardy Gallery (Sunderland), Locus+ (Newcastle), and at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa).
Steve DietzSteve Dietz is currently the Walter Phillips Gallery curatorial fellow, during which he is co-curating Database Imaginary (2004) and, with Sarah Cook, a 10-year retrospective of the Banff New Media Institute (2005).
Dietz is Director of
ZeroOne: The Art and Technology Network and Director of the ISEA2006 Symposium | ZeroOne San Jose International Festival of Art and Technology, which will take place August 5-13, 2006 in San Jose, California. Dietz founded the New Media Initiatives department at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1996 and as curator of new media at the Center, he originated the online Gallery 9 and the digital art study collection as well as developing the award-winning platforms ArtsConnectEd (with The Minneapolis Institute of Arts) and mnartists.org (with the McKnight Foundation).
He has organized and curated new media exhibitions including Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the Net (1998); Shock of the View: Artists, Audiences, and Museums in the Digital Age (1999); Art Entertainment Network (2000); Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace (2001-02); Open_Source_Art_Hack (2002), with Jenny Marketou, at the New Museum, New York City; Translocations (2003), part of "How Latitudes Become Forms" at the Walker Art Center; and Making Things Public (2005), with Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
He has written extensively about new media for Artforum, Design Quarterly, Art in America, BlackFlash, MIT Press, the University of California Press, and Princeton University Press and various exhibition catalogs. He has taught at Carleton College, Northfield, MN; the University of Minnesota; and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Anthony Kiendl
Anthony Kiendl is the director of Visual Arts and the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre. He is also the director of the Banff International Curatorial Institute. In 2002, he served as Acting Director of the Dunlop Art Gallery at the Regina Public Library, where he had been curator since 1997. His curatorial practice has theorized weakness, pathos, failure — and related sentiments such as nostalgia — as responses to modernism. This strategy has been manifested in diverse forms including the exhibition Little Worlds (1998), an exploration of diminutive environments by artists; Fluffy (1999), a research project on the aesthetics and meaning of cuteness; Space Camp: Uncertainty, Speculative Fictions and Art (2000), an inter-disciplinary festival of speculative fictions and alterity; and Godzilla vs. Skateboarders: Skateboarding as a Critique of Social Spaces (2001). His recent projects include two symposia on Conceptions of Space: Architecture and Curating, and Informal Architectures hosted by Tate Britain and The Banff Centre respectively.
Anthony initiated the exhibition Database Imaginary through his support of the Bitmaps thinktank at the Dunlop Art Gallery in December 2001.
