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Kathy High is a media artist, curator, and teacher living and working in New York City. Her single channel videotapes include both documentary and experimental forms, and touch on topics including body politics, science fiction, and the paranormal. Typically her work incorporates archival footage, interviews and fictional footage with a sense of irony. Her most recent video documentary, Animal Attraction, about telepathic communication with animals, was premiered in New York at the Guggenheim Museum, featured in the series "Drama Queens", and will be airing on PBS in NYC in summer 2001 on WNET/Channel Thirteen. She is currently in production on a feature-length musical about human genome mapping, called "The 23 Songs of the Chromosomes", about two women scientists working in different areas of biotech/human gene research—who fall steamily in love. Born outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA in 1954. Since the early 1980s High has been producing and exhibiting media art work. She received a BA from Colgate University in Hamilton, NY in 1976 and her MAH from the Center for Media Studies at SUNY in Buffalo, New York in 1981. Her works have been shown in festivals, galleries and museums both nationally and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the Guggenheim Museum of Art (NYC), the Whitney Museum of Art, (NYC), the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Second Annual Mexico/U.S. Conference of Independent Film and Video (Mexico City), the New York Video Festival, the Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada), Inside Out/Toronto Gay and Lesbian Festival, the MIX Festival (NYC), the Human Rights Festival (NYC), and the Berlin Film Festival (Germany). She has received numerous awards for her video works including grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, he New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. High has been active in the media arts community for twenty years, and has worked with a variety of organizations. She started the video exhibition program at Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY. She was a founding member of the Standby Program in NYC in the mid-eighties. In 1991, she founded the critical journal, "FELIX: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication", which encourages dialogue among alternative media makers (http://www.standby.org/felix/). To date they have published five issues of "FELIX" and sold over 10,000 copies. Currently she is producing an international issue of "FELIX" with Mexican and US artists entitled "RISK/RIESGO". High has curated exhibitions of video art which have been screened at Apex Gallery, NYC (History Lessons, 2000), the Microwave Video Festival, in Hong Kong (1998), the Flaherty Film Seminars (Landscape and Place, 1997), and for WNET/Channel 13 (the REEL NEW YORK broadcast series of independent film and video, 1996-1998). High has taught at various universities around the New York metro area for over fifteen years. She is currently teaching video art production and theory in the Visual Arts Department at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ and at Cooper Union School of Art and Science, NYC. |
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