Kathy High

Kathy High
Born Kathryn High
1954
Known for BioArt
Video art
Performance art

Kathy High (Kathryn High) (born 1954)[1] is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator and scholar known for her work in BioArt, video art and performance art. She is co-editor of The Emergence of Video Processing Tools, with Sherry Miller Hocking and Mona Jimenez.[2] She has been a professor of video and new media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York since 2002.[3] Her work has appeared in the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, among others, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.[3] Her work often intersects art, technology and science and has involved collaboration with scientists.[4] The piece "Embracing Animal" was a performance involving live rats that was commissioned for the exhibition Becoming Animal at MASS MoCA.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "MoMA Collection - Kathy High". MoMA. MoMA. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Emergence of Video Processing Tools". U of Chicago Press. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Kathy High Faculty Bio". Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of the Arts. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  4. ↑ High, Kathy. "Symbiotic Art & Science". NEA Art Works Blog. National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Aristarkhova, Irina (2010). "Hosting the animal: the art of Kathy High". Journal Of Aesthetics & Culture 2: 5.