Beryl Graham

Professor
University of Sunderland
Arts and Design
Ryhope Road
Sunderland
SR2 7EE United Kingdom
http://www.crumbweb.org

Beryl Graham is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Art, Design and Media, University of Sunderland, and co-editor of the CRUMB Web site resource for curators of new media art <http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/>. She is a writer, curator and educator with many years of professional experience as a media arts organiser, and was head of the photography department at Projects UK, Newcastle, for six years. She curated the international exhibition Serious Games for the Laing and Barbican art galleries, and has also worked with The Exploratorium, San Francisco, and San Francisco Camerawork. Her Ph.D. concerned audience relationships with interactive art in gallery settings, and she has written widely on the subject for books and periodicals including Leonardo, Convergence, and Switch. Her book Digital Media Art was published by Heinemann in 2003, and she has chapters in the books The Photographic Image In Digital Culture (Routledge) and Fractal Dreams (Lawrence and Wishart). Dr. Graham has presented papers at conferences including Navigating Intelligence (Banff), Museums and the Web (Seattle), and Caught in the Act (Tate Liverpool).

Beryl will present Taxonomies Of New Media Art – Real World Namings.