SEMINAR: SymbioticA Friday Seminar- Collaborative Practices

Kathy High will show selections of video clips from her works that cover topics such as new reproductive technologies, telepathic animal communication, and transgenic animal research. Her feminist bias frames her construction of our engagement with medicine, interspecies relations and our desires to make transparent and to ‘give voice.’ Kathy High (USA) is a visual/media artist, independent curator, and educator. She produces videos and installations posing queer and feminist questions into areas of medicine/bio-science, science fiction, and animal/interspecies collaborations. Her works have been screened in galleries and museums internationally including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in NYC, and she has also received awards for her media works from the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.

High is an Associate Professor of Video and new Media at the Department of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, a department specializing in integrated electronic arts practices <http://arts.rpi.edu> . In 2007, High started the “BioArts Initiative” at RPI, a collaboration between the Arts Department and the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.