Peter Sachs Collopy: On video

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
• 📖 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

Secondary Projects

• 📺 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
• 📺 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
• 📄 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
• 📺 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
• 📄 Cyber-Utopianism Before the Internet, 2012
• 📺 Wipe Cycle: Feedback and Experimental Video, University of Pennsylvania 60 Second Slam, 2012
• 📚 History of Cybernetics Bibliography, 2012