Peter Sachs Collopy: On technologies of consciousness

Major Works

• 📖 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

Secondary Projects

• 🎧 Electronic Artist Nam June Paik Celebrated in SFMOMA Retrospective, with Alexis Madrigal, Kota Ezawa, and Rhonda Holberton, KQED Forum, 2021
• 📺 The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Consciousness and Digitization in the History of Video, Rewind & Hit Play, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019
• 📄 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
• 📄 Video and Technologies of Consciousness: An Interview with Peter Sachs Collopy, with Deborah Withers, Greatbear Analogue and Digital Media Tape Blog, 2015
• 📺 The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Making a Technology of Consciousness in the Long 1960s, Technology’s Stories, 2014
• 📄 The Brainwashing of the Cleveland 5, 2012
• 📺 Wipe Cycle: Feedback and Experimental Video, University of Pennsylvania 60 Second Slam, 2012
• 📚 History of Cybernetics Bibliography, 2012
• 📄 Social Network Sites and the High Fidelity Model of Identity, 2008