Kathy High is Associate Professor of Video and New Media in the Department of Arts, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY - a department specializing in integrated electronic arts practices. She produces and directs documentaries that have been screened at museums and film festivals around the world including Documenta13, the American Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. She has been awarded grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts among others. Her co-edited book The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued, with Sherry Miller Hocking of the Experimental Television Center, and Mona Jimenez of the Moving Image Preservation Program at NYU, will be published by Intellect Books (UK), 2013. The book presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s, and how that history of collaborations among inventors, designers and artists has affected contemporary tool-makers.