Kathy High Explained

Kathy High
Birth Name:Kathryn High
Birth Place:Bryn Mawr, PA[1]
Education:State University of New York, Buffalo
Colgate University[2]
Known For:BioArt
video art
performance art

Kathryn High (born 1954)[3] is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and scholar known for her work in BioArt, video art and performance art.

Background

Kathy High graduated with a BA from Colgate University in 1976 and an MAH from the Center for Media Studies at University at Buffalo in 1981 where she studied with media pioneers Tony Conrad,[4] Hollis Frampton, and Steina Vasulka.[5] High was a founding member of The Standby Program in New York City and initiated the video exhibition program at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY in the 1980s.[6]

In 1991, she founded FELIX: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication produced in conjunction with The Standby Program.[7] She is co-editor of The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued, with Sherry Miller Hocking and Mona Jimenez.[8] She has been a professor of video and new media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York since 2002.[9]

Since the early 1980s, High has been creating and exhibiting art in the form of videos, photographs, performances and installations. High's work intersects art, technology and science (often collaborating with scientists) and addresses topics including gender and technology, empathy, and animal sentience.[10] Her work has appeared in the Guggenheim Museum, Catalyst Arts, MASS MoCA, and the Museum of Modern Art among others and she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.

High's video works are distributed through Video Data Bank and her films I Need Your Full Cooperation/Underexposed and Underexposed are distributed by Women Make Movies.[6]

Notable works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Thompson. Nato. Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom. 2005. The MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. 0-262-20161-5.
  2. Book: Thompson. Nato. Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom. 2005. The MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. 0-262-20161-5.
  3. Web site: MoMA Collection - Kathy High . MoMA . 8 March 2015.
  4. Web site: University of Buffalo Magazine, Tony Conrad's students remember him. university of buffalo magazine.
  5. Web site: Kathy High. Women Make Movies. 27 January 2016.
  6. Web site: Kathy High Video Data Bank. www.vdb.org. en. 2017-03-04.
  7. Web site: FELIX :: Info. www.e-felix.org. 2017-03-04.
  8. Book: The Emergence of Video Processing Tools. University of Chicago Press. Intellect . 8 March 2015.
  9. Web site: Kathy High Faculty Bio. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of the Arts. 4 March 2017.
  10. Web site: Symbiotic Art & Science. High. Kathy. NEA Art Works Blog. National Endowment for the Arts. 8 March 2015.
  11. Web site: Film Series. www.guggenheim.org. 2016-03-19.
  12. Web site: WOMEN MAKE MOVIES Kathy High. www.wmm.com. 2017-03-04.
  13. Web site: VSG: Vampire Study Group: Death Down Under. vampirestudygroup.com. 2017-03-04.
  14. Web site: About the Project Blood Wars. vampirestudygroup.com. en-US. 2017-03-04.
  15. Aristarkhova. Irina. 2010. Hosting the animal: the art of Kathy High. Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. Co-Action Publishing. 2. 5. 10.3402/jac.v2i0.5888. 8 March 2015. free.
  16. Book: Thompson, Nato. Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom. The MIT Press. 2005. 0-262-20161-5. Cambridge, MA.

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