CRUMB – Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss


CRUMB – Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss is a research resource for all things related to the practice of curating new media art. Via an online discussion list and regular conferences as well as publications, CRUMB collects and disseminates information about curating in the field of New Media art.

History

CRUMB was founded in 2000 by Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook, as a research institute at the University of Sunderland, England. CRUMB has been awarded a series of major Research Grants by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and research partners have included Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and from 2007, Eyebeam Atelier and Lancaster University, UK.
Over the past ten years, CRUMB has organised many conferences and workshops around the themes of curating, such as the documentation and preservation of New Media art, most recently at the AND Festival in Liverpool in October 2009. CRUMB has published numerous interviews with leading curators including Christiane Paul of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Barbara London of the Museum of Modern Art, and Benjamin Weil formerly of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Today

The research group includes PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers, who publish and lecture widely on the subject.
They work across a wide range of disciplines in New Media art, Internet art, Fine art, Design, Electronic art, Video art, Digital art, Computer art, etc.
Currently the following researchers are working with CRUMB: Sarah Cook, Verina Gfader, Beryl Graham, Axel Lapp, Adinda van 't Klooster, Dominic Smith.

Research partners