Writing

Kathy High is co-author (with Sherry Miller Hocking and Mona Jimenez) of The Emergence of Video Processing Tools and co-editor (with Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller Hocking) of Experimental Television Center 1969-2009. She also edited FELIX: The Journal of Media Arts & Communication (1991-2003); has written exhibition catalog introductions and articles and is the subject of articles and reviews written by others.

Video Art History


The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued

Kathy High (RPI), Sherry Miller Hocking (ETC), and Mona Jimenez (NYU), Intellect Books, UK, 2013
(Manuscript received positive review stating: “This volume will be a key text within academic video art studies.”)

The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and ’70s. They examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations among inventors, designers, and artists trying to create new video tools to capture and manipulate images in fascinating and revolutionary ways. The contributors include “video pioneers” who have been active since the emergence of the aesthetic and technologists who continue to design, build, and hack media tools. The book also looks at contemporary toolmakers and the relationship between these new tools and the past. Video and media production is a growing area of interest in art and this collection will be an indispensable guide to its origins and its future.

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Radical Learning, Radical Perception: The History of the Experimental Television Center

Kathy High, Ralph Hocking, Sherry Miller Hocking
Experimental Television Center DVD compilation collection 1969-2009, ETC, Ltd., Owego, NY, 2009.

This article was written originally for the Hidden Histories publication (co-edited K.High with Helen de Michiel, NAMAC) but was republished as the introductory essay for the catalog of ETC’s DVD collected works.

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Environmental Media at Artpark

Article by Kathy High, edited by Sandra Firmin, curator, for the exhibition at UB Art Galleries, The State University at Buffalo, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010.

This article was commissioned and written for the exhibition catalog Artpark 1974-1984, and describes the experimental media projects that were produced at Artpark during those years.

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Bio-Art Activities


Playing with Rats

Article by Kathy High in Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism and Technoscience, edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philips, MIT Press, Boston, MA, 2008.

This article describes my research for the project Embracing Animal. Other materials for this project are submitted under “Art Projects”. 

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Video Art History


Kathy High (RPI), Sherry Miller Hocking (ETC), and Mona Jimenez (NYU), Intellect Books, UK, 2013
(Manuscript received positive review stating: “This volume will be a key text within academic video art studies.”)

The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and ’70s. They examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations among inventors, designers, and artists trying to create new video tools to capture and manipulate images in fascinating and revolutionary ways. The contributors include “video pioneers” who have been active since the emergence of the aesthetic and technologists who continue to design, build, and hack media tools. The book also looks at contemporary toolmakers and the relationship between these new tools and the past. Video and media production is a growing area of interest in art and this collection will be an indispensable guide to its origins and its future.

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Kathy High, Ralph Hocking, Sherry Miller Hocking
Experimental Television Center DVD compilation collection 1969-2009, ETC, Ltd., Owego, NY, 2009.

This article was written originally for the Hidden Histories publication (co-edited K.High with Helen de Michiel, NAMAC) but was republished as the introductory essay for the catalog of ETC’s DVD collected works.

See More...
Article by Kathy High, edited by Sandra Firmin, curator, for the exhibition at UB Art Galleries, The State University at Buffalo, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010.

This article was commissioned and written for the exhibition catalog Artpark 1974-1984, and describes the experimental media projects that were produced at Artpark during those years.

See More...

Bio-Art Activities


Article by Kathy High in Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism and Technoscience, edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philips, MIT Press, Boston, MA, 2008.

This article describes my research for the project Embracing Animal. Other materials for this project are submitted under “Art Projects”. 

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