Bowling Green State University (2006), The Univerasity of Akron (1990)
Known for
RTMark/The Yes Men, Second Front, Manifest.AR, Virtual Fluxus
Spouse
Negin Ehtesabian
Patrick Lichty is a conceptual media artist, activist, curator, and educator. Lichty is currently a Creative Digital Media professor at
Winona State University.[1]
Artwork
Lichty was part of the activist collective
RTMark (pronounced "art-mark").[2][failed verification] Lichty was also member of RTMark's successor group
The Yes Men, and is featured in the collective's first documentary.[2]
He is a creator of digital tapestries, especially Jacquard weaving, and is noted alongside Chuck Close as a seminal contemporary artist in this genre.[2][3] In December 2014, he had a solo exhibition of his tapestry and robotic drawing work called "Sensible Concepts: Mediation as a Way of Being".[4][5]
He is a co-founder of Second Front, a pioneering
Second Life performance art group.[2][6]
Lichty was an associate member of the first Augmented Reality art collective.[7]
Lichty, Patrick (2008), Paul, Christiane (ed.), "Reconfiguring Curation: Non-institutional New Media Curating and the Politics of Cultural Production", New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art, University of California, pp. 163–190,
ISBN978-0520243972
Lichty, Patrick (2008), Paul, Christiane (ed.), "(re)distributions: PDA, Information Appliance, and Nomadic Arts as Cultural Intervention", New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art, University of California, pp. 207–219,
ISBN978-0520243972
Lichty, Patrick (2013). Variant Analyses: Interrogations of New Media Art and Culture. Institute of Network Cultures.
Lichty, Patrick (2015), Miura, Gianluca (ed.), "On Virtual Fluxus", Analyzing Art, Culture, and Design in the Digital Age, Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, Cham: IGI, pp. 39–50,
doi:
10.4018/978-1-4666-8679-3,
ISBN978-1466686793,
S2CID55016634
Lichty, Patrick (2018). new memory rescue. Abstract Editions.
ISBN978-1548371951.
Lichty, Patrick (2014), Geroimenko, Vladimir (ed.), "The Aesthetics of Liminality: Augmentation as an Art Form", Augmented Reality Art, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 99–125,
ISBN978-3-030-42156-4
Lichty, Patrick (2020), Geroimenko, Vladimir (ed.), "The Aesthetics of Liminality: Augmentation as an Art Form", Augmented Reality in Education, Springer Series on Cultural Computing, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 261–278,
doi:
10.1007/978-3-319-06203-7_5,
ISBN978-3-319-06202-0