Kathy High

Kathryn High (born 1954) is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator and scholar known for her work in BioArt, video art and performance art. Her BA was completed at Colgate University in 1976 and she received her MAH from the Center for Media Studies at University at Buffalo in 1981. High is co-editor of The Emergence of Video Processing Tools, with Sherry Miller Hocking and Mona Jimenez. She has been a professor of video and new media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York since 2002. 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. Her work often intersects art, technology and science and has involved collaboration with scientists. The piece "Embracing Animal" was a performance involving live rats that was commissioned for the exhibition Becoming Animal at MASS MoCA.

Since the early 1980s, High has been creating and exhibiting media-based artworks. Her video documentary, "Animal Attraction," about telepathic communication with animals, was first exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and was additionally featured on PBS and WNET in New York City. Her films "I Need Your Full Cooperation/Underexposed" and "Underexposed" are distributed by Women Make Movies.