About Ido Hartogsohn

Ido Hartogsohn is a psychedelic scholar, artist and activist based in Israel. Over the years Hartogsohn has initiated multiple projects aimed to promote psychedelic culture, thought and politics in Israel and abroad. In 2013 he co-founded the Israeli psychedelic magazine “Lapsychonaut” and in 2017 he organized the first Israeli psychedelic conference, “Altered Minds.” Hartogsohn’s book “Technomystica” (2009, Hebrew) was the first Hebrew book to focus on the subject of psychedelics.

In 2010 Hartogsohn founded “The Daily Psychedelic Video”, a website dedicated to the exploration of psychedelic aesthetics in film, which has since become the largest collection of psychedelic videos in existence, and in 2020 developed into The Psychedelic Video Museum, a first of its kind online museum exploring the manifold styles and genres of psychedelic video. In 2015 he founded Psychedelic Traveler, a website that covers psychedelic travel locations around the world.

Hartogsohn is an assistant professor at the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University. His book American Trip: Set, Setting and the Psychedelic Experience in the 20^th Century (2020) was published by MIT Press.