 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 (2000–2006) and from 2007, Eyebeam Atelier (New York) 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.