Patrick Lichty | |
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| Born | October 5, 1962 Cuyahoga Falls Ohio |
| Education | MFA Computer Art, BS Electronic Engneerng Technology |
| Alma mater | 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.
Lichty was part of the activist collective RTMark (pronounced "art-mark").[failed verification] Lichty was also member of RTMark's successor group The Yes Men, and is featured in the collective's first documentary.
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".
He is a co-founder of Second Front, a pioneering Second Life performance art group.
Lichty was an associate member of the first Augmented Reality art collective.
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
Lichty's work is in collections of The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN[better source needed] and the Smithsonian. He also works as a curator and critic.
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