Peter Sachs Collopy: On art

Major Works

• 📖 Passing in the Hallway: Art and Technology at Caltech, 1968–1972, Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020, 2024
• 📘 Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 [introduction], exhibition catalog, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, 2024
• 📖 Between Paradigms: Video and Art Therapy, Modernism, Art, Therapy, 2024
• 📖 “Video Is as Powerful as LSD”: Electronics and Psychedelics as Technologies of Consciousness [Spanish excerpt], Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics, 2023
• 📖 Video and the Self: Closed Circuit | Feedback | Narcissism [chapter introduction], edited chapter, Video Theories: A Transdisciplinary Reader, 2022
• 🎓 The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Making a Technology of Consciousness in the Long 1960s, dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
• 📖 Video Synthesizers: From Analog Computing to Digital Art, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2014

Smaller Projects

• 📺 Art and Science at Caltech: Four Histories, with Soraya de Chadarevian, Lois Rosson, Brian R. Jacobson, and Christopher Hawthorne, Caltech, 2024
• 🖼️ Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, Caltech, 2024
• 🎧 Art and Science Collide at Southern California’s Third Annual PST ART Series, with Larry Mantle, Joan Weinstein, Mika Yoshitake, and Jessica Nieble, AirTalk, 2024
• 📚 Curating Art and Science, syllabus, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, Claremont Graduate University, 2022
• 📺 Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Dean and Dudley Evenson, with Dean Evenson and Dudley Evenson, Media Burn Archive, 2022
• 🎧 Electronic Artist Nam June Paik Celebrated in SFMOMA Retrospective, with Alexis Madrigal, Kota Ezawa, and Rhonda Holberton, KQED Forum, 2021
• 📄 Making Art Do Work, book review, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020
• 📺 The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Consciousness and Digitization in the History of Video, Rewind & Hit Play, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019
• 🖼️ The Mind’s Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image, Caltech, 2018
• 📄 Ego Me Absolvo: Catholicism as Prototype in Paul Ryan’s Experimental Video, Archée, 2016
• 📺 Infolding the Self: From Video Therapy to Video Art, Re-Create Emerging Researchers’ Symposium, 2015
• 📖 The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued, book review, Technology and Culture, 2015
• 📺 The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Making a Technology of Consciousness in the Long 1960s, Technology’s Stories, 2014
• 📄 Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archives, exhibition review, 2012
• 📺 Wipe Cycle: Feedback and Experimental Video, University of Pennsylvania 60 Second Slam, 2012
• 📚 History of Cybernetics Bibliography, 2012