2009-2019

An ongoing project, Rat Laughter records lab rats' ultrasonic communications in order to produce "musical soundscapes." A work made to enrich the environment for laboratory rats used in research — developed at SymbioticA.

2017

Photo research series on missing microbes

2017

An homage to Dominique Laporte’s History of Shit (1978)

2017

An ongoing project about shared micro-ecologies among family members. It was created in collaboration with Dr William dePaolo, Center for Center for Microbiome Sciences and Therapeutics (CMiST), University of Washington, Seattle.

2016

DIY stool bank prototype with honey as preservative

2015

Attempted exchange project with David Bowie

2015

Becoming A Plant: Resurrection Project

2012

Photographic series of presents gifted by the cats for their companion human.

2012

Four large photographs (3’ x 4’) of underwater scenes.

2012

A mesmerizing work that places the gaze of the cats eyes on the viewer, inverting the object subject relationship.

2008-12 (in progress)

Working from High’s earlier project, Embracing Animal, the Trans-Tamagotchi website extends the ideas as a tamagotchi-type video game. It looks at animals developed for different disease research, and how they can be “cared for” virtually

2012

A large close up of a fox road kill (3’ x 4’)

2010-2011

Blood Wars is a competition between people’s white blood cells. Blood Wars is a performance and installation art-and-science project researched and developed during a residency at SymbioticA- Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts in the School of Anatomy & Human Biology at The University of Western Australia. The project is funded by John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation.

2010

Glass sculpture, water and underwater imagery. The sound of dog barking haunts the watery scene.

2010

Intimate photographs of the landscape of road kill. (2’x3’)

2009

This is a model for a future addition to all animal research facilities.

2009

This is a memorial to transgenic rats. Five glass globes house the cremated ashes of the transgenic rats from the project Embracing Animal. Alongside these are banners listing all transgenic rats’ model codes, disease types and the scientific team and year created.

2009

This is a model for a future addition to all animal research facilities.

2008

HLA-B27 is a photographic series of intimate images of the transgenic rats used in the two iterations of the project Embracing Animal.

2007

Sculpted heads of decapitated laboratory specimens line up.

2004-06

Site-specific, mixed media installation with glass tubes, video, sound, live transgenic laboratory rats in extended rat habitat, computer terminal with website.

2005

A collaborative site-specific installation about light, landscape and surveillance by Kathy High and Melissa Dyne at the Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong. Looking at various ways of seeing, the installation Big Tools /Small Tools combines analog and digital, macro and micro imaging in one space to contrast different modes of observation.

2003

Two sculptures with video, Cloned Positions and Red Scare, that use the female body to explore irrational fears of cloning and contamination.

2001-02

A series of entries in a popular weekly magazine/celebrity gossip rag TV Notas

1997

Commissioned series of computer images for 25th anniversary issue of Feminist Studies Journal, Volume 23, Number 3, 1997. View all images by downloading the journal article.

1984

A series of photographs taken on steamy nights in NYC with composite drawings of inner street dwellers