Peter Sachs Collopy: Writing

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
• 📖 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

Secondary Projects

• 📄 Making Art Do Work, book review, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020
• 📄 Notes on Thomas J. Watson for Caltech’s Committee on Naming and Recognition, Caltech, 2020
• 📄 Ready, Set, Spark, Caltech Magazine, 2020
• 📖 Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record, book review, Technology and Culture, 2020
• 📖 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
• 📖 Portable Moving Images: A Media History of Storage Formats, book review, Technology and Culture, 2019
• 📄 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
• 📄 What Does It Mean to Say Millennials Are Having Less Sex?, Nursing Clio, 2016
• 📄 Ego Me Absolvo: Catholicism as Prototype in Paul Ryan’s Experimental Video, Archée, 2016
• 📖 The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued, book review, Technology and Culture, 2015
• 📄 Topic Modeling, 2014
• 📄 MIT, Ethics, and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz, 2013
• 📄 Taking Over the NRA, 2013
• 📄 Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archives, exhibition review, 2012
• 📄 Cyber-Utopianism Before the Internet, 2012
• 📄 The Brainwashing of the Cleveland 5, 2012
• 📄 Cybernetics of the LRAD, 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
• 📄 The Value of Role-Playing Games, Growing Without Schooling, 1999