Peter Sachs Collopy: Everything

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
📺 Sitting Down with Uncomfortable Things in the Caltech Archives, with graduate students, postdocs, and Maura Dykstra, Caltech, 2020
📺 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
📖 Race Relationships: Collegiality and Demarcation in Physical Anthropology, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2015
📖 Video Synthesizers: From Analog Computing to Digital Art, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2014
🎓 George Frederick Wright and the Harmony of Science and Revelation, thesis, Oberlin College, 2007

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
📺 Behind the Book: Escape from Earth, with Erik Conway and Fraser MacDonald, Caltech, 2022
📺 Robert Millikan, Eugenics, and Justice in the Laboratory and the Archives, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 2022
📺 Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Dean and Dudley Evenson, with Dean Evenson and Dudley Evenson, Media Burn Archive, 2022
📺 Iterating Infrastructure from High Volts to X-Rays to Nuclear Physics: Early Caltech Science in the Archives, Caltech Physics Colloquium, 2022
🎧 Electronic Artist Nam June Paik Celebrated in SFMOMA Retrospective, with Alexis Madrigal, Kota Ezawa, and Rhonda Holberton, KQED Forum, 2021
📺 Archiving Communities of Resilience and Resistance in Caltech’s Present & Past, with Nivetha Karthikeyan, Rochelle Diamond, Edray Goins, and Melany Hunt, Caltech Alumni Association, 2021
📄 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
📺 Biology Returns to Caltech, Caltech, 2020
📺 From High Volts to High Energy Physics, Caltech, 2020
📺 Chemistry Comes to Caltech, Caltech, 2020
📺 Influenza Comes to Throop, Caltech, 2020
📄 Becoming Caltech: A Q&A with Caltech Archivist Peter Collopy, with Jon Nalick, Caltech Magazine, 2020
📖 Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record, book review, Technology and Culture, 2020
🖼️ Becoming Caltech: Building a Research Community, 1910–1930, with Heidi Aspaturian, Loma Karklins, and Elisa Piccio, Caltech, 2020
🎧 Strange Science of Astronomy: Past and Present, with Eun-Joo Ahn, Tracy Drain, W. Patrick McCray, and John Mulchaey, Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 2019
📖 Richard Feynman, Design & Science, 2019
📖 The Cybernetics Moment, or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, book review, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2019
📺 Copernicus to Feynman: Paper and Print in the Caltech Archives from 1500 to Present, Caltech Alumni Association, 2019
📺 The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Consciousness and Digitization in the History of Video, Rewind & Hit Play, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019
📖 Portable Moving Images: A Media History of Storage Formats, book review, Technology and Culture, 2019
📺 The Caltech Archives as Modern Wunderkammer, LASER Pasadena: Wunderkammer, ArtCenter College of Design, 2018
🖼️ The Mind’s Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image, Caltech, 2018
📄 History of Physics in the Caltech Archives, and Now on the Web: Hale, Glaser, and More, with Mariella Soprano, AIP History Newsletter, 2018
📄 When Caltech Was Throop University, ICW Blog, 2017
🖼️ “Throops’s Superlative Opportunity”: The Story of the Gates Laboratory of Chemistry, with Jennifer Torres, Caltech, 2017
🖼️ Building a Chemistry Division, with Jennifer Torres, Caltech, 2017
📄 4 Questions for Peter Collopy, with Jon Nalick, Caltech Magazine, 2017
📚 The Evolution Debates, syllabus, University of Southern California, 2017
📄 What Does It Mean to Say Millennials Are Having Less Sex?, Nursing Clio, 2016
📚 America and the Cold War World, 1945–1991, syllabus, University of Southern California, 2016
📄 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 Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued, book review, Technology and Culture, 2015
📚 Technology and Society, syllabus, University of Pennsylvania, 2014
📺 The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Making a Technology of Consciousness in the Long 1960s, Technology’s Stories, 2014
📄 Topic Modeling, 2014
📄 MIT, Ethics, and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz, 2013
📚 Cyberculture, syllabus, University of Pennsylvania, 2013
📄 Taking Over the NRA, 2013
📄 Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archives, exhibition review, 2012
📄 Cyber-Utopianism before the Internet, 2012
📚 Emergence of Modern Science, syllabus, with Jason Oakes, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
📄 The Brainwashing of the Cleveland 5, 2012
📄 Cybernetics of the LRAD, 2012
📺 Wipe Cycle: Feedback and Experimental Video, University of Pennsylvania 60 Second Slam, 2012
📚 History of Cybernetics Bibliography, 2012
📄 History of Science Society 2010 Annual Meeting, with Andrew Hogan, genmedhist, 2011
📄 Laboratories and Managerial Science, 2010
📄 Technology Education, 2009
📄 Wikipedia for Educators, 2008
📄 Social Network Sites and the High Fidelity Model of Identity, 2008
📄 Educational Choice “on the Side of the Child”: Liberalism and Libertarian Education, 2006
📄 Writing Technologies and Processes, or An Exploration of the Relationships between Technology, Structure, Linearity, Revision, and Metaphor, 2005
📄 May 9th Email Archive, 2003
📄 The Value of Role-Playing Games, Growing Without Schooling, 1999