Patrick Lichty is a conceptual media artist, activist, curator, and educator. Lichty is currently a Creative Digital Media professor at

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Artwork

RTMark/The Yes Men

Lichty was part of the activist collective RTMark (pronounced "art-mark"). Lichty was also member of RTMark's successor group

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, and is featured in the collective's first documentary.

Digital Tapestry

He is a creator of digital tapestries, especially Jacquard weaving, and is noted alongside Chuck Close as a seminal contemporary artist in this genre. In December 2014, he had a solo exhibition of his tapestry and robotic drawing work called "Sensible Concepts: Mediation as a Way of Being".

Virtual Reality, Second Life, Second Front

He is a co-founder of Second Front, a pioneering Second Life performance art group.

Augmented Reality, Manifest.AR, Shared Universe

Lichty was an associate member of the first Augmented Reality art collective, https://manifest-ar.art/.

New Media Curation

Lichty is a noted New Media art curator, speaking at venues such as the Tate Modern, and is published in the book, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art, edited by Whitney Museum of American Art digital curator, Christiane Paul. In December 2021, Lichty curated Through the Mesh: Media, Borders, and Firewalls at the NeMe Art Center in Limassol, Cyprus

Residencies, recognition, and awards

* Summer School: Curatorial Masterclass (with CRUMB) (2009) * Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency (2013) * Herb Alpert Foundation/CalArts Fellowship (Film/Video - RTMark) 2002 * Eyebeam Artist in Residence 2009

Collections/Galleries

Lichty's work is in collections of The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and the Smithsonian. He also works as a curator and critic.

Bibliography

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lichty, Patrick Artists from Ohio Living people Mass media theorists New media artists Internet art Critical theorists Bowling Green State University alumni 1962 births