Patrick Lichty
American artist
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Patrick Lichty is a conceptual media artist, activist, curator, and educator. Lichty is currently a Creative Digital Media professor at Winona State University.[1]
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 |
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]
New Media Curation
Lichty is a noted New Media art curator, speaking at venues such as the Tate Modern,[8] 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[9]
Residencies, recognition, and awards
- Summer School: Curatorial Masterclass (with CRUMB) (2009) [10]
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency (2013)
- Herb Alpert Foundation/CalArts Fellowship (Film/Video – RTMark) 2002
- Eyebeam Artist in Residence 2009
- Smithsonian American Art Museums New Media-New Century Award (2001) [11]
Collections/Galleries
Lichty's work is in collections of The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN[12][better source needed] and the Smithsonian.[13] He also works as a curator[14] and critic.[15][16]
Bibliography
- 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, ISBN 978-0520243972
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - 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, ISBN 978-0520243972
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - 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, ISBN 978-1466686793, S2CID 55016634
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - Lichty, Patrick (2018). new memory rescue. Abstract Editions. ISBN 978-1548371951.
- 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, ISBN 978-3-030-42156-4
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - 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, ISBN 978-3-319-06202-0
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - Lichty, Patrick (February 1, 2014). The Translation of Art in Virtual Worlds. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199826162.013.027.