Peter Sachs Collopy: On engineering

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
• 📖 “Video Is as Powerful as LSD”: Electronics and Psychedelics as Technologies of Consciousness [Spanish excerpt], Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics, 2023
• 📺 Becoming Caltech, 1910–1930: Presentations from the Archives, with Heidi Aspaturian, Judith Goodstein, Loma Karklins, and Elisa Piccio, Caltech, 2020
• 📖 La vidéo et les origines de la photographie électronique [English], Transbordeur, 2019
• 🎓 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

• 🖼️ Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, Caltech, 2024
• 📺 Behind the Book: Escape from Earth, with Erik Conway and Fraser MacDonald, Caltech, 2022
• 📺 Iterating Infrastructure from High Volts to X-Rays to Nuclear Physics: Early Caltech Science in the Archives, Caltech Physics Colloquium, 2022
• 📄 Making Art Do Work, book review, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020
• 📺 Caltech’s House of Lightning, with Loma Karklins, Caltech, 2020
• 📄 Notes on Thomas J. Watson for Caltech’s Committee on Naming and Recognition, Caltech, 2020
• 📄 Ready, Set, Spark, Caltech Magazine, 2020
• 📺 From High Volts to High Energy Physics, Caltech, 2020
• 🖼️ Becoming Caltech: Building a Research Community, 1910–1930, with Heidi Aspaturian, Loma Karklins, and Elisa Piccio, Caltech, 2020
• 📖 The Cybernetics Moment, or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, book review, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2019
• 📖 Portable Moving Images: A Media History of Storage Formats, book review, Technology and Culture, 2019
• 📖 The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued, book review, Technology and Culture, 2015
• 📚 Technology and Society, syllabus, University of Pennsylvania, 2014
• 📄 Cybernetics of the LRAD, 2012
• 📚 History of Cybernetics Bibliography, 2012