Cook was a Research Fellow at the University of Sunderland, where she worked with the research institute CRUMB – Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss, that she co-founded with Beryl Graham in 2000, and taught on the MA Curating course.
Cook received her Masters from the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard College and her PhD from the University of Sunderland.
She edited the book Information (Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel and MIT Press, 2016) and was curator and editor of 24/7: A Wake-up Call For Our Non-stop World (Somerset House, 2019).
[citation needed] In 2011, she co-chaired Re:wire, the Fourth International Conference on the histories of media, science and technology in art with FACT in Liverpool.
She chairs the annual symposium at NEoN Festival and in 2019 co-chaired Re@ct: Social Change, Art and Technology in Dundee.